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A South Carolina man has died aboard the Carnival Cruise Ship “Fantasy” after apparently trying to jump from one floor of the cruise ship to another. According to Police in the Bahamas, the man fell to his death.
The man has been identified by Royal Bahamas Police as 26-year-old Walter Bouknight. The incident occurred last Friday.
Bouknight was declared dead at the scene.
Primary Source: http://www.wltx.com/news/article/171208/2/SC-Man-Who-Died-on-Cruise-Ship-Identified-
Expect to see the capsized ship Concordia sitting in the waters off the coast of Italy for many months to come. Experts have suggested it may take up to 10 months to remove the ship from the coast, due to delicate preparations that must be made in order to do as little damaget to the surroounding ecosystem as possible.
First, workers must remove fuel from the ship, a process which is expercted to take 3 weeks to a month. After the fuel removal, the ship itself must be removed, a process which will take several months to complete.
According to USA Today:
“Our first goal was to find people alive,” Franco Gabrielli, the national civil protection official in charge of the operation, told a daily briefing. “Now we have a single, big goal, and that is that this does not translate into an environmental disaster.”
On Saturday, the body of a female crew member was found, bringing the death toll to 17. 15 people remain missing.
Primary Source: http://travel.usatoday.com/cruises/story/2012-01-29/Rough-seas-still-delay-work-on-grounded-Italian-liner/52867316/1
Concordia continues to be a pain for all involved. Divers are continuing to search the vessel for bodies, with 17 bodies having been discovered, and 15 still missing. The search effort was halted as the ship began to slip recently, but has since been resumed.
