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Topics: Health, News, Travel, World News, Cruise ship
Kit Roberts
Topics: Health, News, Travel, World News, Cruise ship
A passenger has died on a Carnival Cruise ship and sparked an FBI investigation.
The ship had been travelling to Miami on Saturday 8 November at the time of the tragedy, the cruise line has confirmed in a statement.
Officers from the FBI responded to the scene, and the death is currently an 'ongoing matter', the agency has said.
On Saturday, the cruise liner had been scheduled to dock at Port Miami, and arrived as scheduled.
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Carnival has also said that it is currently supporting the family of the guest who has tragically passed away on the ship.
The Carnival Horizon vessel is capable of carrying up to 3,960 guests as well as 1,450 members of the crew, and sails to the Caribbean from Miami and Galveston in Texas, according to information on the cruise line's website.
Carnival has also released a statement following the tragedy on one of its vessels.
In a statement, the company said: “Since this is an ongoing matter under the jurisdiction of law enforcement, all media inquiries need to be directed to the FBI’s Miami public affairs office.”
It added: "Our focus is on supporting the family of our guest."
Speaking to PEOPLE, the FBI confirmed publicly that it has responded to the scene.
FBI Special Agent Willie Creech told the publication: "Because this is an ongoing matter, no further information is available at this time."
At present, no information about the deceased person has been officially confirmed, though Carnival has said it is working to support their loved ones.
Deaths on cruise ships have been thrust into the spotlight in recent months following the release of a new true crime series on Netflix.
The three-part documentary Amy Bradley is Missing, and follows the disappearance of a passenger on a cruise ship in March 1998, going into detail about how the horrible circumstances may have come about.
Amy Bradley vanished from a cruise ship when she was just 23 years old, with the Netflix documentary including interviews with her family as well as witnesses who were on the vessel on the date she vanished.
Prior to her disappearance, Amy had last been seen dancing at a nightclub, and vanished at a time between then and the following morning.
The latest incident also comes after the death of Suzanne Rees, 80, who had been hiking on Lizard Island when she became unwell.
Crew on the ship that she was travelling on realised she was missing, but when they returned to look for her a day later, she was found dead.