Two U.S. vacationers drowned final week in separate incidents at Carnival Cruise Line’s new Bahamas resort, authorities stated. Each had been passengers on Carnival cruise ships that had sailed to the Caribbean, the corporate confirmed to CBS News on Sunday.
They died Friday whereas swimming at Celebration Key, a personal resort on Grand Bahama Island that solely Carnival cruise passengers can use, in accordance with the Royal Bahamas Police Drive and Carnival. Police stated in a news release that officers on obligation responded to the primary drowning earlier than midday native time, and the second shortly after 2:30 p.m., in accordance with the discharge. The circumstances round every loss of life are underneath investigation.
Within the first incident, officers had been alerted to a 79-year-old man who was unresponsive on board a business ship on the resort. Police stated an preliminary report urged the person misplaced consciousness whereas snorkeling at a seaside, and a lifeguard pulled him from the water to manage CPR. The person, reported to be an American nationwide, was in the end pronounced useless by a physician, in accordance with police.
Officers later discovered a 74-year-old lady unresponsive on board a separate business ship. The preliminary police report in that incident urged that the lady, additionally reported to be American, misplaced consciousness whereas swimming in a pool. Much like the primary case, police stated a lifeguard pulled her from the water and tried CPR earlier than she was additionally pronounced useless.
Neither police nor Carnival recognized the passengers by title. A Carnival spokesperson informed CBS News in an announcement that the passengers had sailed to Grand Bahama on the corporate’s Mardi Gras and Carnival Elation cruise liners, and each had been touring with their households.
“Our lifeguards and medical staff responded to 2 separate emergency incidents at Celebration Key on Friday — one within the lagoon and one on the seaside. Sadly, each company have handed away,” the spokesperson stated. “Our ideas and prayers are with the company and their households and our Care Group is offering help.”
Bahamas police stated autopsies shall be carried out to assist decide every vacationer’s actual reason for loss of life, as investigations into the incidents stay ongoing.
Carnival opened Celebration Key — a $600 million resort compound on Grand Bahama Island that options quite a few eating places, swimming pools, stay music venues, a retail hub and amusement park-style actions — in July. The resort is located beside a pier the place two of the cruise line’s largest ships can dock on the identical time, permitting passengers unique entry to the realm, in accordance with the corporate.