The U.S. Coast Guard was searching Thursday for a woman who was reported overboard a Holland America ship that had sailed out of Port Everglades.<\/p>\n
The 77-year-old woman was reported overboard the Nieuw Statendam, which sailed from the Fort Lauderdale port Dec. 27 and was due back on Jan. 3, at the end of its seven-night Eastern Caribbean itinerary.<\/p>\n
The search was around 40 miles northeast of Sabana, Cuba, the Coast Guard stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are deeply saddened to confirm that while sailing in waters north of Cuba, a guest on Nieuw Statendam went\u202foverboard earlier today,\u201d Holland America stated in an email. \u201cThe\u202fcaptain and crew initiated search and rescue procedures and are searching the area working closely with the U.S. Coast Guard which has deployed a cutter and helicopter to assist.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Coast Guard Cutter William Trump and Air Station Clearwater MH-60 crews are involved in the search.<\/p>\n
The ship\u2019s plans to stop for a port of call in Key West on Jan. 2 was canceled, the line stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur family assistance team is supporting the guest\u2019s family, and our thoughts are with the guest\u2019s loved ones during this difficult time,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Coast Guard was searching Thursday for a woman who was reported overboard a Holland America ship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[29,114,266,115,139,141,140,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-102565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-florida-news","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-headlines","14":"tag-orlando-news","15":"tag-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}