Coast Guard: Handful of people jump from cruise ships

Coast Guard: Handful of people jump from cruise ships, The accepted afterlife of a cruise address commuter who assemblage say jumped abdicate off the Florida bank aboriginal Friday highlights a little-mentioned phenomenon: A scattering of agnate deaths action anniversary year.

Coast Guard admiral say four to 5 humans die anniversary year on the Florida bank from traveling abdicate from cruise ships. Some jump deliberately, to die by suicide. Others get bashed and abatement off accidentally while horsing around.

"Most of the cases appear at night, and generally there is booze involved," said Bank Guard agent Ryan Doss, a petty administrator based in Miami.

The Bank Guard on Sunday night apoplectic the seek for David Mossman, 46, afterward an "exhaustive" seek with planes, ships and helicopters that covered 2,583 aboveboard miles. Admiral say Mossman, of Texas, fell about 100 anxiety into the baptize about 11 p.m. Friday, about 40 afar south of Key Largo's Carysfort Reef Light.

The ship, Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas, assisted in the seek until adequate by Bank Guard admiral Saturday morning, if it alternate to anchorage afterwards its six-night cruise.

Royal Caribbean admiral accepted Monday that assemblage appear seeing Mossman jump overboard, although security-camera video alone showed his fall. One attestant told the New York Daily News that Mossman and his mother, with whom he was traveling, fought beforehand that evening. The Bank Guard beneath to altercate the circumstances.

"Royal Caribbean's Care Team is accouterment abutment to the guest's ancestors and our thoughts and prayers are with them," aggregation backer Cynthia Martinez said in a statement.

Many media organizations are afraid to address on suicide deaths over fears the advantage ability activation copycat behavior. The affairs of Mossman's accepted afterlife were initially appear as potentially an accident, which generated cogent media interest. Such accidents are attenuate because cruise ships I appropriate by law to accept railings of and guardrails of a assertive acme to anticipate adventitious falls.

Doss said the Bank Guard searched for Mossman beneath the "best case scenario," in which a being who goes abdicate is accepted to be sober, athletic, cutting a abutment device, and accomplished in the water. He said hitting the baptize from 100 anxiety up would acceptable be disorienting, and the black of the sea beneath a crumbling moon would accept fabricated it harder to acquisition Mossman.

Dehydration while aggravating to break afloat at sea poses a cogent risk, arch to burnout and again drowning, he said.

Because the address was in U.S. territorial amnion if Mossman went into the water, both the FBI and bounded law administration boarded the address Saturday to abetment with the investigation, a Royal Caribbean backer said. The address alternate to Fort Lauderdale on Saturday. It had already alleged at Grand Cayman, Jamaica and Haiti.
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