Code Oscar was sounded on the Windstar cruise ship Star Breeze after a passenger was reported overboard while the vessel was sailing off the coast of the Marquesas Islands in in French Polynesia. The incident happened during a 14-day Tahiti voyage, and local media reports say the passenger went overboard after an argument with his wife.
Spanish authorities have launched air and sea search for a 76-year-old British passenger who reportedly went overboard from the cruise ship Marella Explorer 2, north of the Canary Islands.
Maritime rescue service confirmed that the search began yesterday and resumed at first light. “It has been confirmed he went overboard and is aged 76. The search for him started yesterday and is continuing today,” the spokesperson said.
A deeply distressing situation has unfolded aboard Viking Star after a crew member went overboard while the ship was sailing between Crete and Sicily on Monday morning. The alert was raised at 11:31 a.m. local time on October 27, when the individual went overboard in the southern Aegean Sea. The atmosphere onboard quickly shifted from a calm day at sea to an emergency response that left both crew and guests shaken.
A police report revealed what really happened earlier this year when a five-year-old girl fell overboard from the Disney Dream cruise ship.
When most people disembark from a cruise, they wait for the gangway. But one passenger on Royal Caribbean’s Rhapsody of the Seas decided to take the express route straight overboard to avoid a hefty casino tab.
A 27-year-old Kenyan citizen, working as a Galley Steward aboard the Sun Princess, has been reported missing after going overboard in the Dardanelles Strait on August 20, 2025.
According to Princess Cruises, the MOB was detected through CCTV review, prompting the captain and officers to immediately launch emergency protocols. The ship coordinated closely with local maritime search and rescue authorities, deploying multiple boats to comb the waters for several hours.
Tragically, despite extensive efforts, the young crew member has not been located.
An 18-year-old passenger was rescued alive after jumping overboard from the cruise ship AIDAnova in the Baltic Sea, reports Morgenpost.
Yesterday, the crew of Icon of the Seas faced one of their hardest days at sea after a fellow crew member went overboard.
The Oscar alarm sounded just after 7 p.m., and everything stopped. The ship slowed, turned back, and a rescue boat was sent out right away. Everyone watched in silence as life rings were thrown into the water and the rescue team searched the sea to bring their colleague back.
A dramatic rescue unfolded Tuesday afternoon at the Port of Souda in Crete, when a 30-year-old crew member from a cruise ship plunged into the sea under unexplained circumstances.
The woman, identified as a Tunisian national working as an assistant seaman, fell overboard while the cruise ship flagged in the Bahamas, was docked at the port. The reason behind her fall remains unclear, prompting an ongoing investigation by Greek authorities.
A Filipino crew member who went missing from a cruise ship bound for Brazil has been found dead five days after his disappearance, the Philippine Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) confirmed on Thursday, March 6.
