{"id":15386,"date":"2025-10-22T09:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/15386\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:45:09","slug":"norwegian-cruise-jewel-passenger-goes-overboard-sailing-to-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/15386\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Cruise Jewel passenger goes overboard sailing to Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/swns.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style=\"aspect-ratio:5.17171717;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/swns_copyright_large.png\" class=\"attachment-nypost-syndicated-partner size-nypost-syndicated-partner\" alt=\"SWNS\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An emergency has been declared on a cruise ship after a \u201cpassenger went overboard,\u201d a tourist claims.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers on the Norwegian Jewel \u2013 currently en route from Barcelona to Miami \u2013 say they were woken up at 2 a.m. with \u201ccode Oscar starboard\u201d blaring out of the speakers \u2013 a maritime emergency signal for a person overboard.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger claims staff on the cruise confirmed someone had \u201cgone overboard\u201d and the cruise ship is in \u201csearch and rescue mode\u201d \u2013\u00a0currently circling the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian cruise liner set sail from Barcelona on October 15.<\/p>\n<p>A British passenger, who wanted to remain anonymous, said: \u201cI was asleep in the cabin. The captain put out an announcement \u2018code Oscar starboard.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Norwegian Jewel sails away from port in Seattle on June 25, 2016. Eric BVD \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>Cruise ship locator tracked the Norwegian Jewel doing circles in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean after the \u201cpassenger overboard\u201d announcement. CruiseMapper \/ SWNS<\/p>\n<p>A crewmember looks out from a deck on the Norwegian Jewel.  SWNS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs it was transmitted into our rooms also. I thought it might be serious and googled it to find that Oscar means person overboard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have just in the last 10 minutes had an announcement to confirm someone is overboard, and that is why we have been and still are circling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norwegian Cruise Line has been contacted for a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An emergency has been declared on a cruise ship after a \u201cpassenger went overboard,\u201d a tourist claims. Passengers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11160,5008,6819,28,123,125,124,2977,13318,10645],"class_list":{"0":"post-15386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-atlantic-ocean","9":"tag-barcelona","10":"tag-cruises","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-miami","13":"tag-miami-headlines","14":"tag-miami-news","15":"tag-norwegian-cruise-line","16":"tag-spain","17":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15386","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=15386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}