Nathan Diller is a consumer travel reporter for USA TODAY based in Nashville. Carnival Vista is currently sailing a six-day itinerary, expected to port at Grand Turk Island on Thursday, according to CruiseMapper. The Coast Guard launched a search while Carnival Vista continued on its route to Amber Cove.
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The 133,500-gross-ton cruise ship can welcome 3,934 passengers aboard at double occupancy, or as many as 4,977 guests when fully booked with all berths filled. The captain received an emergency alert about the stranded men and immediately steered the ship towards them — and away from its planned course — to save them. "Our wonderful Pacific Dawn team have followed the highest maritime traditions going to the aid of fellow seafarers in peril. A cruise ship has rescued three men - one from Sydney and two from the NSW Hunter region - who were found adrift in a liferaft off the coast of New Caledonia. A relatively small segment of the boating population truly needs a life raft. Johnson's wife then reportedly contacted marine authorities in Noumea—the capital of New Caledonia—who alerted a P&O Cruises vessel in the area of the distress call.
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In a swift response, the cruise ship halted and successfully recovered the raft, rescuing six crewmembers of the small cargo ship. After learning of six more missing crewmembers, the Dominican Republic Navy was alerted. Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Vista rescued six men near the Dominican Republic in the early morning hours of Wednesday, December 13, 2023, after a small cargo vessel capsized overnight. Six additional crew members are still missing and search and rescue operations are underway by United States Coast Guard authorities. After the rescue, Amodio said the cruise ship’s captain announced that the crew had rescued 14 people stranded at sea for eight days.
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They arranged a transfer and a Navy boat came to pick up the two kayakers soon after the initial rescue, Carnival said. There’s still no official word on what exactly caused the men’s boat to sink in the first place. The coast guard says the weather was less than ideal for a rescue like this and credits training and hard work to the successful mission. The men were taken to the hospital, and the coast guard says, all 12 survivors are doing okay after a terrifying ordeal in the ocean. In a Facebook post, P&O Cruises said the three men "couldn't be happier" to be spending the night safe aboard the Pacific Dawn. "It was just panic stations," Ben Johnson, one of the three seafarers, told the newspaper.
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The ship has already visited Nassau, and is visiting Amber Cove on Wednesday, just hours after the rescue. Carnival Vista brought six men on board early Wednesday morning near the Dominican Republic after they got stranded overnight. Carnival said the Coast Guard successfully rescued the six additional people. The cruise ship then continued with its voyage — heading to Mahogany Bay, Roatan which it visited on Tuesday. Crew members let Carnival’s fleet operation center staff in Miami know of their rescue and both contacted Mexican Navy officials.
The survivors “were reported in good health,” the Coast Guard said in a news release. Officials advised that Carnival Vista resume its route and the ship continued to its planned stop at Amber Cove on Wednesday. Vista is on a six-day Caribbean cruise that departed from Florida’s Port Canaveral on Sunday, according to CruiseMapper. The Icon of the Seas is considered by cruise industry experts to be the largest cruise ship in the world at the moment, the Miami Herald reported. The Carnival team learned of six additional crew members from the small cargo vessel, and alerted US Coast Guard officials. Carnival officers aboard the ship spotted the men on a bright orange, reflective life raft through the darkness of the early morning and brought them aboard the ship.
Before sunrise on Wednesday, December 13, Carnival Vista rescued six men on a life raft. Carnival Cruise Line’s Fleet Operations Center in Miami had received an emergency alert, and reached out to Carnival Vista as close to the reported location. The ship’s master, Captain Paolo Severini, immediately altered the ship’s course to search for the craft. Upon reaching the alert’s location, about 30 miles north of Puerto Plata, the officers on the Carnival Vista spotted a life raft.
Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground. "We'd abandoned ship by then because we were listing. She [the yacht] was in very bad shape." "I just quickly got on the phone and contacted everybody I could get hold of at that time in the morning," he said. Realizing the seriousness of their predicament, Johnson made several calls to alert people of the situation.
They were holding onto debris of the vessel, named Two Brothers, which sank approximately 30 miles north of Puerto Plata. “The ship’s officers then spotted six men on a life raft and stopped to rescue them and bring them on board,” the cruise line said. The men’s small cargo vessel had capsized overnight and another six who were on the boat were on another life raft — which was later located and rescued by the Coast Guard. Once safely aboard the cruise ship, the pair were evaluated by Carnival’s medical staff and given first aid as well as food and water.
The problems started after a thick rope which had been floating in the ocean became caught in the engine, tearing a hole in the hull, The Australian reported. “On the way to Amber Cove the Carnival Vista rescued this life raft,” a woman posted along with the rescue video on TikTok. Workers aboard the Carnival Jubilee spotted the pair paddling in a small yellow and orange kayak off the coast of Isla Mujeres, Mexico. The Coast Guard stepped in and was able to find and save the other stranded men using a helicopter and lift them to safety.
It is not known whether the rescued crew members have remained aboard the cruise ship or if they were transferred to Coast Guard authorities. It is also possible they will be turned over to the appropriate authorities at the ship’s next port of call, Amber Cove in the Dominican Republic. Passengers aboard the Icon of the Seas captured video of the crew using a small vessel to ferry the group to the safety of the cruise ship on Sunday. The cruise had begun in Miami, and the ship was headed for Honduras when the rescue happened, passengers said. Transoceanic life rafts are designed for more serious conditions and are more ruggedly built with additional and larger ballast bags and self-righting inflating canopies. They have an extensive equipment list including a drogue (sea anchor) to help with stability and to minimize drift away from your originally reported position.
Weight (typically pounds for a valise and upwards of 170 pounds for canister versions) is a key issue especially for rafts that will have to be moved and thrown off the boat manually. "I was looking at spending the whole night at sea and we only had to spend two and a half hours in the life raft," he said. Lt. Cmdr. Jeb Slick, the mission’s copilot, praised the crew’s dedication and training, which were crucial under the less-than-ideal weather conditions. The rescue swimmer deployed by the aircrew successfully hoisted all survivors onto the helicopter, who were then transferred to emergency medical services in Puerto Plata.
The incident, which unfolded on December 13, also saw the involvement of the US Coast Guard, which later rescued an additional six crewmembers. He immediately altered the ship’s course, in coordination with Carnival’s Fleet Operations Center in Miami, when the onboard monitoring system received an emergency alert. Crew members of a Carnival cruise ship rescued two men stranded in the Gulf of Mexico Monday. They are now travelling onboard the ship which will arrive in Brisbane on the eastern coast of Australia on Saturday as scheduled, 7NEWS reported. #BREAKING A @USCG OPBAT MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew rescued six people, Wed., after their vessel sank about 30 miles north of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
"Amazing to think this all happened on World Maritime Day a celebration of seafarers." The 811-foot-long Pacific Dawn—which was in the middle of a seven-night cruise of the South Pacific—diverted from its planned route and made a beeline for the stranded yachtsmen. They said their boat had sank and they used the kayak to stay afloat, Carnival said in a statement. "It was definitely a heart-wrenching experience," said Victoria Foster who was worried the others wouldn’t be saved. She says the entire rescue took about an hour, and she wasn’t sure if they’d make it to safety. "So we abandoned, we abandoned ship by then because it was already lifting and she was in ... she was in very bad shape."
These rafts usually come with insulated inflatable floors for thermal protection and more comprehensive inspection ports so you can spot a rescue vessel on the horizon. "Marine rescue authorities in Noumea asked Pacific Dawn to divert to assist the three seafarers after receiving their distress call," the statement read. The cruise ship rescued six people from the flimsy orange raft, but six others were still out there. A life raft serves as a floating platform to keep you out of the water in case your primary vessel sinks or catches fire. Some people choose to forgo a life raft and opt instead to use their dinghy or inflatable as a secondary source of buoyancy in case of disaster. These may work on lakes, rivers and in near-coastal areas where rescue may be imminent.
"It is wonderful to know that the three seafarers are safe and well. The captain gave guests regular updates on the sea rescue mission. Chances are, you do if you’re planning to do coastal or blue water passage making. It’s an insurance item that you hope you don’t need and don’t want to spend much money on but don’t get tempted to go cheap, or worse, without. Eventually, the Pacific Dawn—which was carrying around 2,000 people—reached the three men floating in their life raft, and a rescue vessel was dispatched to retrieve them.
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