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Lupoli said the company’s Care Team is “providing support to the family members of the missing guest who were sailing with him and remain on board. A search is underway in the Gulf of Mexico after a 28-year-old man was reported missing from a Carnival cruise ship. Carnival Cruises is continuing its investigation into McGrath’s disappearance and has been repeatedly reviewing closed-circuit video footage from the ship, a spokesperson told The Post Thursday. Lupoli told Forbes the cruise line is “providing assistance” to the missing passenger’s family who are still onboard, noting the ship is scheduled to dock in Jamaica’s Montego Bay on Wednesday after departing from New Orleans on Sunday.
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The cruise line said they were in contact with McGrath's family through their Carnival Care Team. Police said he was last seen in his cabin aboard the ship at around 2 a.m. Carnival said that McGrath was "last seen in his cabin at approximately 7 a.m. according to his cabinmate."
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The cruise ship’s crew reviewed the boat’s security camera footage and last saw him just after midnight Monday. Coast Guard said that watch standers from the service received a reported of an unaccounted for passenger early Monday afternoon. Those searches went on until Monday evening but were temporarily paused overnight because of dangerous weather conditions, including gale-force winds and rough seas. "In the video we showed to his family, he can be seen intentionally opening a gate, walking into a restricted area, and jumping from a lifeboat," a Carnival spokesperson told FOX Business in a statement. "New security footage discovered by Carnival Glory shows the man jumping off the cruise ship," the Coast Guard posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday night.
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Dirlean Tate Mason, Barnett's grandmother, told NBC News his passenger card was last used at the ship’s casino and then later at his cabin door, but that his phone was in his room and his bed was not slept in. The Coast Guard is in charge of the search and rescue operations and cleared Carnival Glory to proceed to Montego Bay, Jamaica, as scheduled. Later Tuesday, an Aviation Training Center Mobile HC-144 Ocean Sentry resumed search efforts.
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“Yea that’s insane they should’ve definitely alerted everyone…in scared of cruises i haven’t never nothing good at them,” a top comment read. The video has more than 630,000 views and over 1,800 comments as of Wednesday morning. "I have my moments where I break, but I'm keeping the faith," Reid said on Tuesday, before seeing the footage. "What's important to me is to know where he's at and to have him home, whether he's alive or not, I want his body to be home."
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"He can be seen climbing on a lifeboat and jumping from there," the spokesperson said. While the passenger's mom told Business Insider she was hopeful he was still alive, she said that she was worried he might not have survived. She also said she found out from family — not the cruise line — that her son was missing. That was around the time guests were leaving the ship, the cruise line said.
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The Coast Guard was forced to temporarily suspend its efforts overnight due to extreme weather, but it resumed Tuesday morning. Mason said she did not think Barnett would take his own life, and there is no security footage of anyone going overboard. Before docking on Wednesday, the ship is also scheduled to call on Grand Cayman and Cozumel, a Carnival spokesperson said. According to the cruise line’s website, the 952-foot-long Carnival Glory ship can hold up to 2,980 passengers and 1,150 crew members. McGrath was with a big group of relatives on the three-day cruise to celebrate his father’s 60th birthday, his sister Danielle McGrath told USA Today.
“The bridge team onboard spotted the vessel and turned the ship around to rescue them,” Carnival said in a news release. “All were taken aboard, given food and were seen by the medical team.” The cruise line also notified the U.S. On Tuesday, USCG Heartland told FOX Business the ship did not have footage or evidence that showed Barnett went overboard; however, he was not located on the vessel. The search for 28-year-old Tyler Barnett of Houma, Louisiana, resumed Wednesday morning after being paused due to severe weather conditions and safety concerns.
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Chris Matheson, a former member of British Parliament, said in 2015 her case "smells like a crime has taken place." Amy Lynn Bradley famously went missing during a Caribbean cruise when she was 23 years old in 1998. Her father awoke one morning to find her missing and investigators have rejected claims she may have fallen overboard due to her history as a strong swimmer and no sign of her body in the water. She was never found, though several people have reported sightings, including a U.S. Navy soldier who said Bradley approached him at a brothel asking for help.
"The guest was not detected by surveillance systems, including U.S. Customs and Border Patrol during the debarkation process," the company said. After a search of the ship, police cleared it to set sail again, but McGrath was nowhere to be found. The Coast Guard suspended its search of the water surrounding Port Miami on Thursday. MIAMI, Fla. (WFLA) — The U.S. Coast Guard has called off its search for a man who disappeared from a cruise ship travelling to Florida this week. Carnival said it had informed the Coast Guard and the man's family of the development. The cruise line didn't release the man's name — though the man's mother, Elisha Reid, told BI in an earlier interview that her son, Barnett, was the missing passenger.
McGrath’s sister, Danielle, told NBC affiliate WTVJ that he disappeared at the end of a family trip celebrating their father’s 60th birthday. She knew something was wrong when he didn’t show up to eat breakfast with the group that morning. A man has been missing for over two days after disappearing from a docked Carnival cruise ship in Miami, officials and the cruise line said. McGrath said later Monday morning — as the cruise was ending and passengers were disembarking — the family gathered for breakfast, but Kevin never showed up. McGrath’s disappearance comes just one week after a young college student fell overboard off the world’s largest cruise ship, the Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas.
The US Coast Guard suspended its search Thursday for a Carnival Cruise passenger who mysteriously vanished from the ship during a family vacation to celebrate his father’s 60th birthday. The news comes after Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Apex ship rescued seven people in a small vessel adrift between Cuba and Mexico earlier this month. Another Carnival ship, Carnival Jubilee, also rescued two people stuck in a kayak off the coast of Mexico’s Isla Mujeres in January.
His sister contacted the Carnival crew the next day and informed them her brother never returned to his room. Monday in his cabin as the Carnival Conquest reported back to the Port of Miami, Carnival said in a statement Tuesday. He was reported missing by his family and "was not located on board despite an extensive search." James Michael Grimes survived in the Gulf of Mexico for 20 hours after going overboard the Carnival Valor cruise ship last November. He said he spent hours treading water while fending off ocean dwellers and was ultimately spotted by the crew of a bulk carrier vessel before being rescued by the Coast Guard.
The Carnival spokesperson said that Barnett's family, who remain on board, are being supported by the company's care team. He still was nowhere to be found when all passengers disembarked the ship, and the family reported him missing, the publication reported. Lyles also responded via email sharing that she was getting notifications from the Carnival app for things like events throughout the cruise stay and said the company should have used that system to alert passengers of the missing person. Kevin was reported missing on a Monday, and the Coast Guard’s search for him was suspended a few days later that same Thursday, USA Today reported. The United States Coast guard confirmed they found the 28-year-old man alive on Thursday night, just hours after his sister reported him missing.
The Coast Guard announced Thursday that they were suspending their search for McGrath. “Coast Guard issued broadcasts and messages to mariners in the Gulf of Mexico notifying them of the missing passenger,” the agency added. The ship is proceeding to Montego Bay, Jamaica, and is expected to arrive there Wednesday. The ship is also expected to make stops in Grand Cayman and Cozumel.
Nathan Diller is a consumer travel reporter for USA TODAY based in Nashville. Get a brief on the top business stories of the week, plus CEO interviews, market updates, tech and money news that matters to you. He wasn’t seen past 2 a.m., he never showed up to meet his family for breakfast. "The Coast Guard is utilizing both air and water assets to conduct the search," the military branch said. McGrath's brother declined to comment when contacted by phone Tuesday. The family is begging for answers, hoping someone will come forward with information about what happened to McGrath, an Army veteran and father of two.
