24-year-old boy jumped overboard cruise ship Royal Caribbean, 100 km from the coast

The U.S. coast guard has suspended its search for a man, prognuvshis on Friday, April 13, overboard cruise ship Royal Caribbean.

Found that it was a 24-year-old boy, but his name and was he a passenger or member of ship’s crew, not reported.

According to the representative of the coast guard , Andrew Kendrick, the incident occurred about 65 miles (104,6 km) from the island of Refuge (Virginia). Cruise ship Anthem of the Seas, owned by Royal Caribbean, was returning from the Bahamas to the port of Bayonne (new Jersey).

Leaped from the deck of the guy on boats and helicopters, help also arrived a transport of the Navy of the United States, but yesterday, April 14, the search was stopped.

«There is no chance that he survived, said officer Kendrick. — Too far from shore, too cold water.»

Reports of a man overboard on #AnthemoftheSeas. We heard the captain asking witnesses to go to Guest Services with what they saw. It looks like there’s another cruise line assisting the search. pic.twitter.com/FC2PtTPzWh

— Heather Fountaine (@WHAS11Heather) April 13, 2018

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