The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) mentioned it was an remoted incident and passengers weren’t in peril. But, in response to a press release issued Monday, the company is investigating a girl’s “suspicious” demise throughout a cruise on the Carnival Sunshine between South Carolina and the Bahamas.
In line with an FBI press launch from the Columbia, South Carolina area workplace, on February 27, Carnival Sunshine workers investigated a report of an unresponsive lady passenger. The girl was pronounced lifeless regardless of the efforts of crew members and medical workers.
CBS Information experiences that on Sunshine‘s March 4 return to the U.S., the FBI boarded and investigated the cabin the place the lady was discovered. Carnival is reportedly cooperating within the investigation, which can also be below scrutiny by authorities within the Bahamas. The FBI famous in its launch that it sometimes investigates “sure crimes on the excessive seas,” which might embrace an American’s demise in questionable circumstances.
The FBI can examine many severe crimes on the excessive seas, together with piracy, terrorism, hijacking, and drug trafficking. Nonetheless, the company’s authority to analyze is restricted to sure varieties of offenses and conditions and is topic to varied authorized and sensible limitations.
Hannah Hierholzer, who mentioned she was a passenger on the identical cruise, advised Charleston TV station WCSC that there have been a number of calls over the ship’s intercom for a medical response workforce. She mentioned she thought, “‘Oh, that is bizarre, perhaps that occurs on a regular basis,’ as a result of there’s outdated folks on cruises with a well being downside or one thing.”
CNN quoted Carnival spokesperson Matt Lupoli, who mentioned partly that “the deceased and her husband have been debarked in Nassau and Bahamian authorities have already investigated the circumstances and are conducting an post-mortem.” In any other case, he mentioned that Carnival is “totally cooperating.”
“It is a matter for authorities within the Bahamas and Charleston,” Lupoli acknowledged, “and we now have no additional feedback.”
