A crew member employed on the MSC Seascape went overboard close to Puerto Rico final night time round 8:00 P.M. (November 14, 2023). The US Coast Guard (“USCG”) deployed two rescue vessels and a helicopter to seek for the overboard worker.
NBC Miami reported that the crew member is from India and is a 30 yr outdated man who was noticed going overboard about 80-feet from the bow of the cruise ship from a peak of roughly 32 ft above the water. The favored Crew Center, nevertheless, experiences that the crew member concerned within the incident is a Mauritian nationwide employed as a lodge cleaner.
There is no such thing as a publicly accessible info relating to why the crew member went overboard. Most ship staff go overboard by leaping attributable to lengthy working hours, fatigue & despair, and contracts that final for so long as six to 10 months, isolation from their households and the shortage of assist and counseling.
A information reporter for a TV station in California, Sophia Lesseos, and a journalist, Liz González of KMPHFox26, who had been each aboard the cruise ship and posted a number of movies on Twitter.
In 2017, we reported that MSC Cruises introduced that it had put in a state-of-the-art man overboard system on the MSC Meraviglia and was planning to deploy comparable techniques throughout its fleet of cruise ships.
MSC Cruises indicated that it developed an “clever video capturing and evaluation system” in collaboration with “safety know-how consultants, Bosch and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.” The Swiss-based cruise line introduced that it has examined the brand new man overboard system on the corporate’s latest ship which debuted in June (2017). MSC reported that “by way of over 25,000 hours of video evaluation, intensive software program testing and steady algorithmic updates, the system has now reached a confirmed accuracy degree of 97%.”
The MOB information and pictures are analyzed by two separate and unbiased picture processing techniques which considerably decrease false alerts. “As soon as the alarm is activated in case of an overboard, an acoustic sign and lightweight will notify the ship’s safety officer, in a central safety room, who can instantly retrieve and evaluate the pictures and information and instantly notify the bridge to start rescue efforts,” in accordance with Seatrade Cruise News. MSC Cruises introduced MSC Meraviglia is “fitted with an built-in video surveillance system to optimize safety monitoring on board the ship and which is able to enable, amongst different options, for the speediest intervention within the unlikely occasion an individual or object falls overboard.”
In July 2019, a cruise guest in her 40’s went overboard from the MSC Meraviglia but was promptly rescued after the auto MOB alerted the crew that she went overboard.
Sadly, it doesn’t seem that some other MSC ships have been outfitted with the life saving MOB system. Nineteen (19) folks have gone overboard from MSC cruise ships since 2006.
There have been at the very least 397 people have gone overboard from cruise ships within the final 25 years.
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Picture credit score: Crew Middle – MSC Seascape; Sophia Lesseos – movies through Twitter; Andrea @Inwoodmomma via Twitter – video through twitter; and Liz González / @LizKMPH – movies through Twitter.
