THE US Coast Guard is searching for a man from Brazil who fell off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship near the Bahamas.
Petty Officer Mark Barney said the Coast Guard received a report around 1am on Friday that a 35-year-old man was on the seventh deck of the Oasis of the Seas when he apparently jumped into a life raft on the sixth deck and eventually fell overboard.
The Oasis of the Seas is sailing to the Caribbean from Port Canaveral and was 80 nautical miles northeast of Mayaguana when the man fell.
PO Barney said the Coast Guard sent a C-130 plane from Clearwater, Florida, to begin searching. An MH-60 helicopter joined the search at daybreak. In addition, he reported the cruise ship sent two search boats to look for the man, whose name has not been released. A statement from Royal Caribbean said the man is from Brazil.
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