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A photo he took, broadcast by the station, also showed that the area of the ship where the woman fell had been cordoned off with blue tape. The U.S. Coast Guard said on Sunday that it halted its search for a woman who went overboard from a Carnival cruise ship near Ensenada, Mexico. The latest person to go overboard on a cruise ship was on Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas on October 30. He was found alive and was debarked off the ship the following day.

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Due to strong winds and high waves, the Coast Guard was forced to halt search operations on Monday evening. Carnival Cruise Line has confirmed that the man who went missing from the Carnival Glory in the Gulf of Mexico intentionally jumped off the vessel in the middle of the night. The Carnival Magic ship departed from Norfolk, Virginia, on Thursday and returned to Norfolk on Tuesday, WTKR reported. "The Coast Guard is utilizing both air and water assets to conduct the search," the military branch said. Grimes was eventually spotted by a cargo ship, and dramatic video showed him being plucked from the ocean by the Coast Guard about 20 miles south of Louisiana’s Southwest Pass. The Coast Guard has since narrowed its search area roughly 30 miles southwest of the Southwest Pass.

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Carnival did not respond to questions regarding which man overboard-detection technologies are in place on board the Carnival Elation ship. Ms. White pictured the unknown passenger alone in the water and felt sick to her stomach. The man was rushed to a hospital in New Orleans and was being evaluated, officials said. "I wanted to see my family and I was dead set on making it out of there. I was never accepting that this is it, this is going to be the end of my life. I'm 28 years old. I'm too young. This is not going to be it," Grimes said. Mason said she isn’t ready to make memorial arrangements for Barnett because she does not want to believe the search is over.

Man Who Disappeared from Carnival Cruise Ship 'Jumped' Overboard, Officials Say

Following the incident, the cruise ship resumed its scheduled transatlantic voyage. It is currently on a repositioning cruise across the Atlantic, heading to Rotterdam, Netherlands, where it will be based throughout the summer. The Rotterdam had just completed a six-night Western Caribbean cruise, visiting Belize, Costa Maya, and Cozumel, when it was discovered that a crew member was missing once docked in Port Everglades. The coast guard and the ship's crew recovered the man's body before 10.30 p.m. Carnival did not provide further details of how the woman fell overboard.

A total of 212 overboard incidents were reported on cruise ships from 2009 to 2019, according to a report commissioned by the industry-trade group Cruise Lines International Association. On February 18, a search was suspended for a missing 32-year-old woman who reportedly jumped overboard from the Carnival Valor while off the Louisiana coast, per The Washington Post. Rescue crews covered more than 2,5000 square nautical miles during their 14-hour search for the passenger. The cruise ship was on a four-day Bahamas sailing and on its way back to Jacksonville, Florida, at the time of the incident, Matt Lupoli, a Carnival spokesperson, said. The man was reported missing by his travel companion late Sunday afternoon after he was not seen all day.

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However, despite searching for over 24 hours across 538 square nautical miles, the Coast Guard called off the search on Sunday evening. One passenger told a California news station, KABC-TV, that he heard someone say, “Man overboard, man overboard port side” on the ship’s speakers. He said that when he looked over the balcony of his room, he saw crew members tossing life preservers into the water. "Sadly, after an exhaustive on-board search and a review of security camera video it was determined that he jumped," Lupoli said. "Shoreside authorities were notified, and the crew was advised to continue to Jacksonville. The Carnival Care Team is providing support to the guest's family and our thoughts are with them and the guest." He was reported missing by his fiancée late Monday afternoon, the cruise ship operator told Insider's Natalie Musumeci and Hannah Towey on Tuesday.

“I think it kind of blows the norm, the normalcy, out of the water here, and really just shows the will to live is something that you need to account for in every search-and-rescue case,” he told CNN. "We greatly appreciate the efforts of all, most especially the U.S. Coast Guard and the mariner who spotted the guest in the water," Lupoli told CBS News. Carnival Valor had said in a statement to ABC News that it conducted a search-and-rescue operation after Grimes went missing. “Suspending an active search is never a decision we make lightly, and we offer our most sincere condolences to Mr. Barnett’s family and friends,” DiGeorge said. “From what my granddaughter could tell from the poor quality of the footage, it looked like he went to move and slipped off. I know Tyler wouldn’t deliberately jump,” Barnett's grandmother Dirlean Tate Mason told NBC News on Thursday.

Peale, from New Hope, Virginia, was on his first cruise and was celebrating Blosser's birthday with her family, Linda Peale said. In a statement to The Post, Royal Caribbean said its crew immediately sprang into action following the incident. The cruise line has not disclosed the identity of the crew member. His rescuers believe he was moments away from perishing in the water given the hypothermia, shock and dehydration he was suffering from. Speaking about the moment he first spotted the cargo ship, Grimes said he was doing everything he could to catch its attention.

Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Barnett’s mother Elisha Reid told Business Insider that her daughter was previously informed that there was no footage of what happened. The agency has officially identified the missing man as Tyler Barnett of Houma, Louisiana.

CBS Miami reported the Mardi Gras is the largest ship ever built for the cruise line. The first cruise ship with an onboard roller coaster, the Mardi Gras is 1,130 feet long, has 21 decks, 2,641 staterooms, and features six themed zones and restaurants from Guy Fieri, Emeril Lagasse, Rudi Sodamin and Shaquille O'Neal. The ship was cleared to continue sailing to its scheduled Montego Bay, Jamaica call and is due to arrive on Wednesday morning. James Michael Grimes told ABC News on Friday that he went into survival mode after he plunged from the Carnival Valor ship and into the shark-infested waters of the Gulf of Mexico the night of Nov. 23. Insider could not reach the FBI via phone outside regular business hours. A spokesperson for the federal agency's Norfolk field office told Fox the FBI is the lead investigating agency for the incident.

Carnival crew searched the ship Thursday but were unsuccessful, later deciding to retrace the ship's route to find the missing guest. The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a Virginia man who fell from a cruise ship balcony earlier this week. "The ship's command immediately began search and rescue procedures, returned to the area near where the incident occurred, and notified the US Coast Guard," the Carnival representative said. A man has died after jumping off a Carnival cruise ship, the second such incident aboard a Carnival vessel in less than a month.

The Mardi Gras and the cruise ship Elation also participated in the search, said Coast Guard spokesman David Micallef. Ronnie Peale Jr., 35, went overboard from a Carnival Magic cruise ship traveling off the coast of Florida on Monday, the Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard confirmed to The Post it is still conducting a search and rescue operation in the waters off Cuba.

The two were last seen together at a restaurant where Grimes had won an air guitar contest before going to the bathroom. Mason said she can’t understand why it took the cruise line as long as it did to locate the correct surveillance video and notify the Coast Guard. It took more than 24-hours to locate the video of Barnett going overboard. Previously, the cruise line only found surveillance video of Barnett entering the cruise’s casino and his room on Sunday night. The Coast Guard responded with two cutters and an airplane to search for the 43-year-old man.

“There was a lot of yelling, and the crew was alerted immediately,” another passenger,  Deborah Morrison, told The Post. According to the Carnival representative, the man's wife was traveling with him on the Carnival Horizon, which departed Miami on Sunday and was due to return on Saturday. "The Jayhawk helicopter crew hoisted the man and transferred him to officials in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos." On Saturday, the Coast Guard said that it had deployed a cutter called the Forrest Rednour as well as a helicopter, and that it was working with Mexico’s Navy to find the woman. His disappearance prompted the Cozumel, Mexico-bound vessel to retrace its path toward New Orleans and the US Coast Guard to launch a frantic search. “When it started getting back towards nighttime again, the water started getting colder, [and] at that time I thought, you know, how much longer am I going to have to be out here?