{"id":338456,"date":"2026-07-13T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/338456\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:49:17","slug":"crew-member-missing-from-cruise-ship-that-departed-fort-lauderdale-search-and-rescue-underway-off-mexicos-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/338456\/","title":{"rendered":"Crew member missing from cruise ship that departed Fort Lauderdale; search and rescue underway off Mexico&#8217;s coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A search and rescue operation is underway off the coast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mexico<\/a> after a crew member on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/cruise\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cruise<\/a> that departed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/fort-lauderdale\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Lauderdale<\/a> over the weekend may have gone overboard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Princess Cruises is responding to a situation involving a crew member aboard Regal Princess in waters off the coast of Cancun,&#8221; a spokesperson for Princess Cruises said in a statement to CBS News Miami. &#8220;The crew member is currently unaccounted for, and an active search and rescue operation is underway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cbsmiami-regal-princess-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Southampton England UK. 27.09.2025. Regal Princess cruise ship departing Southampton docks, southern England, UK \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Regal Princess cruise ship departing Southampton docks, southern England, UK.<\/p>\n<p>                Southampton England UK. 27.09.2025. Regal Princess cruise ship departing Southampton docks, southern England, UK. (Photo by: Peter Titmuss\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The Regal Princess <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/cruise-ship\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cruise ship<\/a> departed from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Princess is coordinating closely with maritime authorities, and search efforts remain ongoing,&#8221; the statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said that the cruise line was remained focused on the search efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts are with the crew member, their family, and all those impacted by this situation,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;We are providing support to our onboard team and remain focused on the ongoing search efforts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Miami is working to gather additional details on the developing situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A search and rescue operation is underway off the coast of Mexico after a crew member on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,10261,14183,249,251,250,807,107],"class_list":["post-338456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-cruise","tag-cruise-ship","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-south-florida","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338456","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=338456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}