Passenger plunges overboard from Norwegian Epic cruise ship sparking frantic search effort near Bahamas
The search for a cruise passenger who went overboard en route to the Bahamas has been abandoned.
The search was abandoned on Thursday night after a 51-year-old man, who has not been named, fell overboard at approximately 3pm earlier that day.
The man had been on board Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Epic, sailing northbound from Ocho Rios, Jamaica, to the Bahamas when he went overboard.
A spokesperson for Norwegian Cruise Line told the Daily Mail: “The authorities were immediately notified, and a search and rescue operation under the guidance and oversight of the Bahamas Rescue Coordination Center went underway.”
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