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- Coast Guard suspends search for missing Carnival Cruise passenger Kevin McGrath
- Police in Miami are searching for man who went missing aboard cruise on Labor Day
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- Heartbreaking video shows cruise ship passenger swimming, fishing with friends week before fatal jump
- Carnival Cruise passenger, 26, reported missing after ship returns to Florida
"My whole family is taking it terribly. We're just sick to our stomach." McGrath, who's an Army veteran and a father of two, was recorded on cellphone video enjoying the live music on the ship. A spokesperson for Carnival did not respond to an e-mail this week. Cell phone footage last shows him dancing to live music on Sunday night. “At this point, I can't really say because it was verified that he did not go overboard, and he did not get off the ship via the (pass) being scanned,” Sean McGrath said.
Coast Guard suspends search for missing Carnival Cruise passenger Kevin McGrath
There’s no way that my brother would just vanish into thin air like this. Today is day four and we know nothing about his whereabouts. “Family members aboard the ship as well as other travelers were carefully interviewed,” Rodriguez stated. Danielle McGrath, of Fort Pierce, who was not on the ship, said Kevin was last seen by his twin brother Andre at around 2 a.m.
Police in Miami are searching for man who went missing aboard cruise on Labor Day
“A search of the ship’s cameras and security devices did not indicate he went overboard,” a police spokesperson told The Post. On Monday, a Carnival Cruise Line spokesperson told The Post. The Coast Guard initially assisted the Miami-Dade Police Department and Florida wildlife officials with a search in the water after being notified McGrath was missing on Monday at about 11 a.m., a Coast Guard spokesperson told CNN. Miami-Dade police investigators are searching for a cruise passenger who was last seen aboard a Carnival Cruise Line ship on Labor Day, authorities in Florida and the passenger's sister said.
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It follows another missing person report from July, when 30-year-old Jaylen Hill disappeared while aboard a carnival cruise ship in Florida. Carnival Cruises is continuing its investigation into McGrath’s disappearance and has been repeatedly reviewing closed-circuit video footage from the ship, a spokesperson told The Post Thursday. Rodriguez stated missing persons detectives examined surveillance footage from the ship, searched the ship and went to Port St. Lucie to meet with McGrath’s family and got DNA samples. A spokesperson for Carnival on Monday declined to respond to detailed questions about how the ship’s staff searched for Kevin McGrath and referred to a statement released after he was reported missing.
The cruise line said the police have cleared Carnival Conquest to sail, and the Carnival Care Team is supporting the family. U.S. Customs and Border Control told Carnival Kevin McGrath was not detected during the debarkation process, NBC Miami reported. "From what I was told, he had an amazing time. He was in good spirits everyone said," his sister told CNN.
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‘I'm sick to my stomach’: Coast Guard suspends search for vanished cruise passenger
Kevin was reported missing on a Monday, and the Coast Guard’s search for him was suspended a few days later that same Thursday, USA Today reported. McGrath’s disappearance comes just one week after a 19-year-old college student fell overboard on the world’s largest cruise ship, the Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas. Miami-Dade Police issued a missing person’s alert Tuesday, saying McGrath was last seen in a black shirt, shorts and gray sneakers at around 2 a.m. Between 2009 and 2019, there were 212 overboard incidents around the world involving passengers and crew, according to statistics compiled for Cruise Lines International Association by consulting firm G.P. His disappearance "is so random, out of nowhere," Danielle McGrath, Kevin McGrath's sister, told USA TODAY.
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Danielle McGrath, who was not on the ship, said her brother and family were on the cruise to celebrate their father's 60th birthday. McGrath, who’s an Army veteran and a father of two, was recorded on cell phone video enjoying the live music on the ship. Danielle McGrath, who was not on the ship, said her brother and family were on the cruise to celebrate their father’s 60th birthday. On Sept. 4, and searched 3,300 square nautical miles with helicopters but found nothing, according to Petty Officer Ryan Estrada, in Miami.
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Coast has been notified and is currently searching the sea for the crew member. "When he didn’t show up to breakfast it was alarming, so they (McGrath's family members) went to look for him. After they couldn't find him, they approached the ship’s staff for help," she said. The Carnival Conquest cruise ship sits docked in Miami in October 2021. U.S. Customs and Border Protection told Carnival that Kevin McGrath was not detected during the debarkation process, NBC Miami reported. Cruise ships have safeguards to prevent passengers from going overboard, and are required by the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act of 2010 to have rails that are "located not less than 42 inches above the cabin deck." McGrath was with a big group of relatives during the three-day cruise, his sister Danielle McGrath previously told USA Today.
Coast Guard crews were searching 3,300 square nautical miles off the coast of Florida for Kevin McGrath, 26, who was reported missing by his family after he failed to show up to breakfast on the ship Monday morning. The Miami-Dade police stated that the ship’s overboard detection system never went off, giving them no evidence that McGrath went overboard. A search by ship staff and security has been unsuccessful as well as the U.S. Coast Guard’s helicopter search of 3,300 square nautical miles.
U.S. Coast Guard Captain Jo-Ann Burdian, speaking at a news conference on Wednesday in Miami Beach, Fla., details the search for dozens of missing people from a boat that capsized after leaving the Bahamas. "All of us at Holland America Line are deeply saddened by this incident and our thoughts and prayers are with the team member's family at this difficult time," the cruise line shared in a statement with CBS News Miami. The family first noticed McGrath was missing after he failed to show up for breakfast Monday morning, his sister said.
Hill had been traveling on the Carnival Elation as it made its way back to its homeport of Jacksonville after a four-day trip to the Bahamas. Fox News Digital also spoke with a representative from Carnival Cruise Line who said the U.S. Coast Guard also performed a helicopter search for the missing man.
"I haven’t eaten all day. I haven’t had a sip of anything all day. My eyes hurt from crying up and down. I’m sick to my stomach."
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