{"id":290116,"date":"2026-04-28T19:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290116\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:06:08","slug":"woman-dies-aboard-a-carnival-cruise-ship-near-catalina-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290116\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies aboard a Carnival cruise ship near Catalina Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A woman aboard a Carnival cruise ship off the coast of Southern California died Monday after officials say she fell off her room\u2019s balcony and landed on a deck below. <\/p>\n<p>The woman, who was not identified, had been traveling with family members, who alerted the crew of the incident, Julie Leonardi, a spokesperson for Carnival Cruise Line, said in a statement. Leonardi did not immediately respond to questions about the cruise\u2019s itinerary, but said the woman\u2019s family was able to depart the ship and return home. <\/p>\n<p>They had been aboard the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cruise-ships\/carnival-firenze?_gl=1*1t531jk*_up*MQ..*_gs*MQ..&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwtcHPBhADEiwAWo3sJud2xzLlg5BGjR1yor16icMcApx4P_afE7VfZZT1KJmhPRKL_Ue5KxoCoZYQAvD_BwE&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADO0sUytdAKqknnzEEQ-AshlVf9nW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carnival Firenze<\/a>, one of the company\u2019s major cruise ships known for its Italian-themed amenities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarnival\u2019s Care Team is supporting the guest\u2019s family, and our thoughts and prayers are with them and their loved one,\u201d Leonardi said. <\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement came aboard the ship while it was docked at Catalina Island on Monday to \u201ccollect information,\u201d Leonardi said, a process that she called customary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman aboard a Carnival cruise ship off the coast of Southern California died Monday after officials say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[123937,123935,53878,32604,9350,8593,4080,4456,123939,121895,123936,131,133,132,123938,1024,1009,1557],"class_list":{"0":"post-290116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-care-team","9":"tag-carnival-cruise-ship","10":"tag-carnival-firenze","11":"tag-catalina-island","12":"tag-coast","13":"tag-family-member","14":"tag-guest","15":"tag-incident","16":"tag-italian-themed-amenity","17":"tag-itinerary","18":"tag-julie-leonardi","19":"tag-long-beach","20":"tag-long-beach-headlines","21":"tag-long-beach-news","22":"tag-major-cruise-ship","23":"tag-monday","24":"tag-southern-california","25":"tag-woman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}