Overview
- A crew member went overboard on Monday, July 13, during a seven-day Regal Princess cruise that had departed Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale on July 11.
- The ship and nearby vessels, including the Carnival Jubilee, plus Mexican maritime authorities carried out an hours-long search in which the Regal Princess slowed and circled the area repeatedly.
- Princess Cruises confirmed the crew member has died but has not released the person’s identity or the full circumstances of the fall.
- The line postponed the planned Cozumel visit, added the port back for July 16, continued on to Belize, and said the ship is due to return to Fort Lauderdale on July 18.
- Princess Cruises has offered grief support to guests and crew and thanked assisting authorities, and the incident is likely to prompt further inquiry into the cause and any safety or procedural lessons from the response.