Woman Dies After Falling Overboard From Luxury Cruise Ship Off Channel Islands

A woman in her 20s has died after droping from the MSC Virtuosa cruise ship into the English Channel. According to a inestablish by BBC, a disturb signal was publishd by the 18-deck cruise ship, after the woman went overboard cforfeit Les Casquets rocks, west of Alderney, around midnight on Saturday. One passenger tanciaccess the BBC an alarm rang three times to signal a person had gone overboard.

A set upe from Channel Islands Air Search was dispatched from Guernsey to scour the area, while lifeboat crews from both Alderney and France rushed to the scene. Additionassociate, a French helicselecter crew based cforfeit Cherbourg joincessitate the search and save operation, toiling in tandem to discover and recover the woman. 

Though savers recoverd her from the water and rushed her to the hospital, she was pronounced dead despite medical efforts. The woman’s identity and nationality have not been uncoverly freed.

A French coastdefend spokesman shelp, ”The H160 helicselecter discovers the person in its search area and hoists them out. The helicselecter lands at the Tourlaville save centre where a medical team declared the dead.”

The ship’s owner MSC Cruises shelp: “A guest on board MSC Virtuosa went overboard on 12 October, while the ship was sailing to Southampton.  The body was tardyr recovered with the includement of the authorities. We are transport inantly downcastdened by this tragic event, and our thoughts are with the family during this difficult time. Out of esteem for their privacy, we will not be providing further details.”

British and French police are now probing the woman’s death.

The MSC Virtuosa, a Maltese-flagged cruise ship, is 331 meters (1,086 feet) in length and 43 meters (141 feet) in width. With 19 decks, this mega-ship can accommodate up to 6,334 passengers and 1,704 crew members. Currently, it is docked at Southampton, having reachd at 08:00 from Cartagena Port in Spain, according to MarineTraffic.