Urgent search efforts for a British passenger who reportedly fell overboard from a cruise ship near Croatia have been called off after four days. Royal Caribbean ’s Explorer of the Seas was believed to be six days into a seven-day voyage around Greece and Croatia when the passenger disappeared during the early hours of Friday morning. Croatian authorities confirmed on 9 August that a “young citizen of the United Kingdom”, reported to be a man, went missing from the cruise that had departed Saturday 3 August and has not been seen since.
The president of the Association of Croatian Sea Captains, Sanjin Dumanic, said on Monday: “Since the man has been in the sea for over 40 hours, we are already losing hope. “We would all like him to be found, but 40 hours is a very long time, and we are losing hope that this search will end successfully”. Nicole Bullock, a passenger onboard the Explorer , wrote on Twitter/X : “Woken up on the cruise ship around 3:40am to the emergency message “Oscar Oscar Oscar off the port side.
” Man overboard. “Been watching the rescue efforts off my balcony all day, hoping for a positive outcome.” According to Bullock, a port dock in Zadar was cancelled as the Croatian Coast Guard assisted in the search.
Search and rescue efforts by The National Center for Coordination of Search and Rescue at Sea in Rijeka (MRCC) continued in the Adriatic Sea near the Vis archipelago and remote island of Jabuka over the weekend. Planes, boats and drones.