Search for Brit who fell 100ft from deck during Adriatic cruise is called off after four days The Brit aboard Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Sea went missing on Friday By Sabrina Penty Published: 17:17 BST, 12 August 2024 | Updated: 17:21 BST, 12 August 2024 e-mail 3 View comments A desperate search for a Brit who fell 100 feet from a deck while on a cruise through the Adriatic Sea has been called off after four days. Croatian authorities had reported that an unnamed Brit, believed to be a man, aboard the Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas ship went missing in the early hours of Friday morning after falling off the cruise ship. According to Croatian news outlet 24Sata, he fell near Jabuka, an island off the coast of Croatia, on the way to Zadar.
Emergency services had been searching the wider area of the Vis archipelago before the search was called off. Several ships took part in the search after an alarm was raised on the luxury vessel which can carry 3,286 passengers. The ship (stock photo) was reportedly on a seven-day Greece-Croatia route which departed on Saturday, August 3 The search took place around the Vis Archipelago (stock image) One passenger on the cruise ship, Nicole Bullock, described how she woke up to an emergency message blaring through the ship.
She wrote online: 'Woken up on the cruise ship around 3.40am to the emergency message '"Oscar Oscar Oscar off the port side". Man overboard.
' Speaking to MailOnline, Kelvin Cabrera from New York City, who was.