Coast Guard halts search for cruise ship passenger after video shows her jumping

[Liberal_in_LA]

why stop looking because she jumped? They only look for accidental overboards?
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Coast Guard halts search for cruise ship passenger
By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press

The Coast Guard suspended a search for a cruise ship passenger Wednesday after closed-circuit video showed the woman jumping overboard.

The footage taken aboard the Celebrity Millennium showed the 63-year-old woman climbing over a railing Monday night and letting go, Celebrity Cruises said.

The ship staff learned she was missing when she failed to disembark in San Diego on Tuesday and couldn't be found onboard.

The ship's GPS satellite marked the location where the passenger went overboard, and the coordinates were given to the Coast Guard.

The woman was alone on the video, said Cynthia Martinez, a spokeswoman for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., which owns Celebrity. She was traveling with her older brother.


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[liberal N proud]

1. I guess they didn't want to interfere with her suicide???

:wtf:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. That's horrible.

Even if they thought she was a suicide (and it sounds as though she was) that's no reason to not look for her.

At least recover her body, for crissakes.

x(

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. agreed

[wtmusic]

6. +1 nt

[SoCalDem]

4. Too much time had elapsed, and who knows where the currents took her?

It's very sad, but sometimes a search is not possible.. It's also likely that her body will turn up onshore in a few days..or maybe not.. Coast Guard would have responded if there was a possibility that she was alive..

[dddem]

5. so sad

I feel for her poor brother.

[Modern_Matthew]

7. She buried herself at sea. Why disturb her grave? nt

[cleanhippie]

8. Meh. Why spend the money and man-hours and risk other lives

for a life that obviously doesn't care?

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Nowhere does it say that they suspended the search BECAUSE of the video

Classic post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.