Cruise ship horror as passenger falls overboard from Ruby Princess
The US Customs and Border Protection are now searching the sea
Sayan Bose,
AN AMERICAN passenger travelling on the Ruby Princess cruise ship is feared to have died after falling overboard.
Authorities have launched a desperate search for the man, 72, who disappeared during the five-day journey to Mexico that began on November 27.
The Ruby Princess cruise ship
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The Ruby Princess cruise shipCredit: Getty
It is believed that the man - who is nowhere to be found - was travelling alone on the Crown-class cruise.
Officials searching for the man onboard fear he may have fallen into the water and died.
A spokesperson from the cruise ship told the New York Post: "Princess worked throughout the day with local authorities.
"CCTV footage has also been extensively reviewed and the ship was searched thoroughly several times without success.
"Having ruled out other possibilities, this is being treated as a man overboard incident."
It is understood that the US Customs and Border Protection took over the investigation when the ship docked in California.
One Coastguard official said: "What information we have to go off kind of does make it a little more difficult.
"Searching a wide area of the ocean takes a lot of time, and a lot goes into that."
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