Two Passenger Go Overboard in Australia

Authorities launched a search on Thursday after two passengers were found missing overnight off of Australia’s eastern coast. The people who were found missing are a 30 year old man and a 26 year old woman when the Carnival Cruise ship docked in Sydney Thursday morning. The first clue to them missing was that they didn’t claim their luggage. Police, who have examined a video, believe that the couple went overboard 93 miles of off Foster, New South Wales. The couple, that went missing, were sharing a cabin and traveling with their family and friends on a 10 day Pacific Island Cruise. Even though there is a 135 mile distance from where they are believed to have fallen overboard to Sydney the police have remained optimistic and are pulling out all stops to retry to find these people.

 

Even though there was a decently long and dangerous fall and that they are far away from the location the passengers were last seen, it is good that the police are still optimistic. If I was put in the families shoes I would be very terrified and afraid for my loved ones but I think that them staying positive is a very good thing. I also believe that the couple can be found and I think that even though it’s a far distance they still somehow made it through that dangerous experience. It also didn’t point out in the story if the couple were friends or married or just in a relationship. It is not that much of a big deal but it made me curious if that somehow had to do with them going overboard if they were in a fight or something else that could have caused them to go missing during their cruise. But I do believe that they are a good chance that they made it through.

 

(WC 309)