Carnival Cruise passenger, 26, reported missing after ship returns to Florida

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• Carnival Ship Passenger Missing after Miami Cruise
• Chilling video shows screaming woman begging for help at stranger's house before she was kidnapped
• Kevin McGrath has been missing since Monday. Carnival officials said he wasn't seen in surveillance footage.
• Coast Guard suspends search for Carnival Cruise passenger who vanished

In July, a passenger went overboard from Carnival Elation, followed by a string of others across Princess and Royal Caribbean. Local authorities continue to search the vicinities of Port Miami and the South Florida shore for 26-year-old Kevin McGrath. The Carnival Glory continued on its journey, porting in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on Wednesday before heading for Grand Cayman Island for a stop Thursday, according to CruiseMapper. She said the Port St. Lucie community where she and her brother are from has been offering "a lot of love" to the family.

Carnival Ship Passenger Missing after Miami Cruise

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a passenger who vanished as a Carnival cruise ship was returning to Miami earlier this week. 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. The Coast Guard released a statement saying "crews searched nearly 3,300 square nautical miles, a combined crew total of over 80 hours" before the search was suspended, according to CNN.

Chilling video shows screaming woman begging for help at stranger's house before she was kidnapped

Cruise Hive was established back in 2008 and among the earliest blogs in the industry. Since the start, it's been our aim to provide the latest cruise news covering all the major cruise lines. We make sure cruisers are fully prepared for their cruise vacation with tips on ships and ports.Millions of travelers rely on Cruise Hive in the United States, Europe, Australia, and around the world. Carnival said it had informed the Coast Guard and the man's family of the development.

Kevin McGrath has been missing since Monday. Carnival officials said he wasn't seen in surveillance footage.

The missing person's report came right as passengers were beginning to disembark in PortMiami following the the four-day Bahamas venture, the cruise line said. The U.S. Coast Guard used a helicopter to search the "water in the general vicinity," the cruise line said, and Miami-Dade police officers boarded the ship to investigate and search. McGrath was "not detected by surveillance systems, including U.S. Customs and Border Patrol during the debarkation process," Carnival said.

"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. Ship staff and security searched the ship but were unsuccessful, a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade Police Department told USA TODAY. The search for a missing Carnival cruise passenger was suspended Thursday after he mysteriously disappeared over Labor Day weekend.

Coast Guard’s helicopter search of 3,300 square nautical miles. Carnival crew conducted an "extensive" search on board the ship but failed to find McGrath. McGrath was not detected by any of the ship's surveillance systems, including security cameras and US Customs and Border Patrol during the debarkation process.

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U.S. Customs and Border Control told Carnival Kevin McGrath was not detected during the debarkation process, NBC Miami reported. 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. After being unable to locate McGrath, the cruise company contacted the Coast Guard and Miami police. Miami-Dade police eventually cleared the Carnival Conquest to set sail again. The ship is currently located in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean on its way to the Bahamas, cruise tracking data shows.

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Thanksgiving Day was planned as a day at sea, when ships would normally reduce speed to permit outdoor activities and minimize wind, and so the ship would not have planned to cover as much distance. The ship is already moving at 17 knots (19 miles per hour), somewhat less than its top cruising speed of 22 knots (25 mph), but it may yet speed up to regain time and arrive closer to its original schedule. No information is available about whether or not the brother and sister were sharing a stateroom, or if there were any other indications of trouble, foul play, or inebriation that could contribute to the possible overboard. McGrath's brother declined to comment when contacted by phone Tuesday. "I have my moments where I break, but I'm keeping the faith," Reid said on Tuesday, before seeing the footage.

She adds that her friends have been in contact with the family, and they told her that when they post the missing person poster on the Carnival Facebook page, it gets pulled down. “Is this what happens when you go missing on a cruise ship? They’re not even going to alert the other passengers who might have seen something?

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. Coast Guard was contacted and searched the water by helicopter. Miami-Dade Police are also investigating but have no leads. While no official announcements have been reported, the ship’s estimated time of arrival in Cozumel is now approximately 1 p.m. The FBI is investigating a "suspicious death" of a female passenger aboard a Carnival cruise ship while it was en route to the Bahamas.

The passenger, identified as Kevin McGrath, was aboard a Carnival Cruise from Miami to Bimini, Bahamas, over the Labor Day holiday weekend but was reported missing following an “extensive search” upon the vessel’s docking. A 2020 study from the industry trade group Cruise Lines International Association found that 19 people go overboard cruise ships each year on average. At least six people have gone overboard in the last three months, promoting debate over whether cruise ships should be required to install man-overboard detection systems.

Local marine traffic has also been alerted to be on the lookout and to report to the USCG if necessary. Barnett was seen on security footage at around midnight on Monday, the Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard launched two aircraft to try to find Barnett in a 200-mile area near where the ship sailed into the Gulf of Mexico. "He can be seen climbing on a lifeboat and jumping from there," the spokesperson said.

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. 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.

Several people said that they’ve been on cruises where other incidents have occurred, and it wasn’t communicated to passengers until much later or not at all. One commenter shared that there is an alleged Facebook group dedicated to the man’s disappearance and some of the very cruise workers allegedly only found out via social media, not from the Cruise line or security. “How about an email that says, ‘Hey, there’s a guy missing. He wasn’t seen past 2 a.m., he never showed up to meet his family for breakfast. Barnett's sister, Destiny Barnett, who was also on the ship, told NBC News, "It makes you feel crazy to be stuck on a ship where everyone else is having a good time. It was supposed to be a vacation, but for us, it's hell." 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.

At the moment, the incident is being classified as a “search and rescue” operation, and activity is focused on locating the missing guest. Carnival Valor has retraced its route to search for a possible overboard passenger, and the Coast Guard is involved in the search and rescue. Barnett's mother, Reid, said Carnival initially told her daughter — who is on the ship — there was no footage of what happened to her son. The cruise line said teams were helping Barnett's family members who were still on board and that the US Coast Guard cleared Carnival Glory to carry on with its cruise.