Search Suspended for Man, 26, Who Disappeared from Cruise Ship

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• ‘My brother didn't just vanish': Family frustrated after Carnival Cruise passenger disappears
• Map: Where ships have struck bridges, lost power
• Kevin McGrath Update: Carnival Cruise Under Pressure Over Missing Passenger
• I Spent 7 Days on My First Adults-Only Virgin Voyages Cruise
• Father shot and killed at Miami apartment complex

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Mystery at Sea: Port St. Lucie man seemingly vanishes aboard cruise ship, remains missing several days later - WPEC

Mystery at Sea: Port St. Lucie man seemingly vanishes aboard cruise ship, remains missing several days later.

Posted: Thu, 07 Sep 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]

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Although Miami-Dade police cleared the ship to sail, the search continues for the missing man. Cruise ships have safeguards to prevent passengers from going overboard and are required by the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act of 2010 to have rails that are "located not less than 42 inches above the cabin deck." The cruise line said the police have cleared Carnival Conquest to sail, and the Carnival Care Team is supporting the family. The U.S. Coast Guard searched 3,300 square nautical miles with helicopters, but nothing showed up. The overboard detection system on the ship never went off, and there is no other evidence that Kevin McGrath went overboard, according to Miami-Dade police.

‘My brother didn't just vanish': Family frustrated after Carnival Cruise passenger disappears

The ship’s overboard detection system never went off, and there is no other evidence that Kevin McGrath went overboard, according to the MDPD. That was around the time guests were leaving the ship, the cruise line said. The probation office — which apparently only found out he had been aboard the Conquest when media reported about his disappearance — said he also is delinquent on $241.20 in probation fees, the outlet said.

Map: Where ships have struck bridges, lost power

Six other pedestrians refused treatment on the scene, police said. A 57-year-old man was dropping off customers at pier 2 when a bystander told him that his vehicle was moving forward. He then jumped into the drivers seat, trying to stop the vehicle, but he accidentally pressed the gas pedal instead of the brakes, colliding with two concrete barriers and eleven pedestrians, according to the Honolulu Police Department. “The entire family is devastated, knowing that we had to get off the ship and leave someone unaccounted for,” he added. The United States Coast Guard has confirmed to PEOPLE that the search for Kevin has since been suspended.

Worldwide, between 1960 and 2015 ships or barges caused 35 major bridge collapses that killed 342 people, according to a 2018 report from the World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure.More than half occurred in the United States. “Lack of inspection, testing replacement/maintenance of the time delay relays” was to blame in February 2019, when the captain of the Portuguese container ship EMS Trader ordered an emergency lowering of the anchor. The ship had lost power, steering and propulsion not far from the Commodore Barry Bridge southwest of Philadelphia. Even if the engine had been working, Calnan said, it would have taken 0.8 nautical miles to bring that particular vessel under those particular conditions to a full stop – farther than the distance to the bridge it was about to hit.

Unlike most incidents in the Coast Guard database, the Qingdao made the news as images of the gigantic ship floating near the bridge spooked jittery Americans still reeling from the recent Baltimore disaster. On March 16, 2018, the bulk carrier Strategic Alliance lost power and propulsion on the Delaware River just north of the Commodore Barry Bridge, a 2.6-mile span connecting Philadelphia to New Jersey and carrying more than 41,000 vehicles a day. At least 900 of them occurred near bridges identified by the U.S. The vast majority were classified as routine but a dozen were labeled major or significant. When you’re packing for an Alaska cruise, you’ll want to plan for any kind of weather, from hot sun to ethereal mist and rain showers—often in the same day. Layers, light waterproof jackets, good walking shoes, and a hat and gloves are the essentials; Alaska can be cold as well as warm and sunny.

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We offer our most sincere condolences to Mr. Peale’s family and friends," the Coast Guard said in a news release at the time. Kevin McGrath, 26, was last seen by his cabinmate aboard the Carnival Conquest at approximately 7 a.m. — the time guests were beginning to get off the ship at PortMiami, the cruise line said in a statement. His disappearance "is so random, out of nowhere," Danielle McGrath, Kevin McGrath's sister, told USA TODAY. "Everyone has different relationships with the person but me, how I know my brother, how I last spoke to him, his energy, his spirit. This is definitely not like him." Sean McGrath said about 43 friends and family members were on the three-day cruise to the Bahamas aboard the Carnival Conquest as part of his 60th birthday celebration.

Yet the United States has some of the strictest maritime standards in the world, according to the experts. Its rules and regulations – which include a host of technical, personnel and environmental practices – go far beyond those set by the International Maritime Organization, which governs all global shipping. The impact sent a 503-foot section of the bridge tumbling into the river. Unlike the Kentucky bridge collapse, highway traffic on the I-40 span had continued to “drive into the void,” according to the NTSB report. Such incidents reinforce the need for extra precaution when ships navigate near critical infrastructure, said Pandey of Massachusetts Maritime, who advocated for mandatory tug escorts regardless of the ship, its cargo or the port. Statistically, the experts said, such failures are more likely to happen in ports and harbors, as well as in close proximity to bridges, because that’s when the ships are under the most stress.

McGrath was with a big group of relatives during the three-day cruise, his sister Danielle McGrath previously told USA Today. McGrath received permission to move from Tennessee to Florida, where he was living with his parents, but his probation officers said he never got a green light to go on a cruise, the report said. It has now emerged that McGrath pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in Tennessee in September 2022 and was sentenced to six years of supervised probation, TMZ reported. Kevin McGrath, 26, was celebrating his dad’s 60th birthday on the Carnival Conquest when he failed to show up for breakfast as the ship headed back to Port Miami after a Labor Day weekend cruise to the Bahamas.

"Is this what happens when you go missing on a cruise ship?" she added. "How about an email that says 'Hey, there's a guy missing. Did you see him? He wasn't seen past 2 a.m. He never showed up to meet his family for breakfast. This is his photo," Lyles said in the video, which has over 660,000 views. Jenn Lyles, a passenger who was on the same cruise as McGrath and his family, told Insider she "found it weird that passengers weren't informed or even sent a picture to share if we saw him or knew something." He wasn’t seen past 2 a.m., he never showed up to meet his family for breakfast. In a viral TikTok video, a Carnival cruise passenger called out the company for their lack of transparency and action after a passenger disappeared on a shover Labor Day weekend.

After his loved ones were unable to determine his whereabouts, a search was conducted by ship staff and security but their efforts were unsuccessful. Therefore, while Lyles’ concerns are worth exploring, and the guest feedback form could be seen as unsympathetic, they do not necessarily reflect shortcomings in the established safety measures on cruise ships. Aboard the 2,980-guest Carnival Conquest, which had just returned from a 3-night cruise to Bimini in the Bahamas. McGrath was not accounted for during standard debarkation procedures, and his absence was reported at approximately 7 a.m.

When the blackout occurred, the ship’s rudder was turned 3 degrees to the starboard side and remained stuck there as the vessel drifted off course. Its towering stack of containers acted as a sail for the wind, which aimed it directly at the bridge’s support column. USA TODAY’s data analysis revealed at least 2,600 bridge strikes occurring in U.S. waters since 2002, the earliest year for which such data is available. The majority, however, were minor – a ship’s antenna or mast hitting a bridge, or a barge clipping a bridge’s protective fender. But most, including cases remarkably similar to what happened last month in Baltimore, have never been made public, buried deep in a federal database. For the past half hour, the crew navigated the hulking vessel through relatively calm waters and lined it up to pass perfectly under the main truss of the steel bridge, softly lit in the early morning darkness.