More Cruise Ship Passengers Go Overboard

A man was rescued from Tampa Bay on Monday morning after he climbed up on a railing of the Carnival Inspiration, slipped and fell overboard, the St. Petersburg Times reports.

The passenger spent three hours clinging to a buoy and later told authorities he had been trying to get a better view of the pilot boat, which ferries harbor pilots between ships and the shore.

Meanwhile, a search is under way for a 50-year-old woman who reportedly went overboard from the Carnival Holiday in the Gulf of Mexico, CNN reports. Read the rest of this entry »