Alaska State Troopers Identify Overboard Passenger From Celebrity Solstice

The Alaska State Police recognized the lady who went overboard final week from the Celeb Solstice. ABC 13 in Houston reported that authorities in Alaska are conducting a loss of life investigation after a Houston girl went overboard throughout a cruise. Alaska State Troopers determine the lady as 40-year-old Selena Pau Pres.”

Final week we reported that the passenger went overboard from the Celeb Solstice throughout a cruise by way of Alaska. The girl disappeared from the Celeb cruise ship on Tuesday, Might seventeenth round 3:00 a.m. within the higher Lynn Canal roughly 20 miles northwest of Juneau, based on the U.S. Coast Guard.

The cruise line didn’t reply to requests from ABC-13 or KHOU-11, each native stations in Houston, for a proof how its visitor went overboard. Celeb Cruises has not issued an announcement relating to the lacking passenger nor has the cruise line responded to quite a few inquiries from different media.

In accordance with KHOU11, the cruise ship’s captain acknowledged to the Coast Guard that the passenger fell from the the ship close to Eldred Rock within the Inside Passage. (The Inside Passage is the historic route that cruise ships and Alaska state ferries observe by way of the waters of southeast Alaska and British Columbia).

The KHOU station indicated that the visitor Ms. Pau Pres went overboard from an higher deck, based mostly on accounts from different passengers.

It’s our expertise that almost all cruise strains, every time doable, are fast responsible passengers who go overboard and accuse them of leaping from the ship. Right here, Celeb Cruises has not executed so however has refused to reply to any inquiries from the press.

It’s important that Celeb protect all movies of this visitor, which not solely proven her going overboard however depict her whereabouts on the ship for the hours earlier than her tragic disappearance.  The cruise line ought to protect all related surveillance tapes in addition to proof of the visitor’s onboard purchases documenting the ship’s sale of alcohol that she could have consumed.

It’s nicely establed beneath maritime legislation {that a} cruise line faces potential legal responsibility when it serves its company alcohol previous the purpose of intoxication.

A couple of years in the past, a twenty-two yr visitor went overboard from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship (Independence of the Seas)  after the cruise line served him thirty (30) hours of alcohol. After the younger man went overboard, the cruise ship’s captain  knowledgeable the ship by way of the intercom that he allegedly deliberately jumped. The cruise line repeatedly the unfinished info to quite a few information retailers, with out mentioning that the visitor was in a state of intoxication.  You’ll be able to learn in regards to the case here- Lawsuit: Royal Caribbean Serves Passenger At Least 30 Ounces of Alcohol, Unreasonably Delays Search, and Claims Visitor Deliberately Went Overboard.

As we talked about final week, this specific cruise line and its dad or mum firm, Royal Caribbean, are two of the cruise strains which refuses to put in computerized man overboard methods as required by the Cruise Vessel Safety and Security Act of 2010. Such methods make the most of subtle movement detection and infrared and radar know-how to instantly ship a sign on to the bridge when an individual goes over the rails after which tracks the individual within the water even at evening.

With out such methods, cruise ships first conduct a handbook search of the ship after which evaluate the video of cameras alongside the aspect of the ship (which aren’t actively manned) to see in the event that they present somebody going overboard. (Actually, Celeb’s dad or mum firm, Royal Caribbean Cruises, requires that Royal Caribbean owned ships first contact Royal Caribbean’s International Safety Workplace in Miami earlier than turning the ship round to start search operations within the water).

When a cruise line declares that its surveillance cameras proven a passenger going overboard (as was executed on this case), it’s invariably solely after a shipboard search has wasted a hour or two.

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Picture credit: Prime – Celeb Solstice – ABC13 Houston.