Cruise Ship Crew Dies After Going Overboard, Royal Caribbean Says It Was Suicide

A crew member belonging to a Royal Caribbean cruise ship died after he went overboard. The incident on September 22 involved a 35-year-old man from India named Mansley Pereira.

Pereira went overboard when the cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas was in the port of Dubrovnik. He was a waiter with the cruise line.

Royal Caribbean said, “Mansley committed suicide by jumping into the sea.” A local newspaper in India reported that Pereira has been a seaman for several years.

The local paper also said family disputes could have driven the cruise worker to suicide. However, there were no witnesses, videos or CCTV footage of Pereira going overboard.

The Rhapsody of the Seas departed from Venice, Italy on Sept 21 for a seven days cruise trip. It has now arrived in Santorini, Greece and will return to Venice on Saturday.

A video posted on Twitter showed some people trying to rescue Pereira from the water and a few giving him chest compressions after pulling him into a rescue boat.

According to cruise news, many Royal Caribbean ship employees have gone overboard in the past 10 years and most cases were suicides.

But there is criticism that the cruise line is not taking steps to deploy safeguards to check the spurt in overboard deaths.

Disney cruise line itinerary from New Orleans

Meanwhile, Disney Cruise Line announced that it will return to New Orleans next year and resume sailings to the Bahamas and Caribbean, including Disney's private island paradise, Castaway Cay.

Per Disney cruise 2019 updates, many popular itineraries for tropical destinations from Texas, California, and Florida are lined up.

Bookings are open on Oct. 3, 2019. The Itineraries spanning January 2020 through May 2021 can be found on the website disneycruise.com.

Among the attractions of the cruise deals from New Orleans to the Caribbean and Bahamian destinations will be the opportunity to savor flavors of New Orleans cuisine at Crescent City and revel in the great jazz music.

The Disney Wonder trips from late January through February 2021 will have interesting voyages.

The season will kick off with a four-night cruise to the Western Caribbean from New Orleans covering visits to Progreso and Mexico.

The Disney Wonder will return to the ports of Galveston and San Diego in early 2021. That will allow guests from Texas to relish the white-sand beaches of the Western Caribbean on cruises to Grand Cayman and Cozumel. In bigger programs, there will be stops at Key West, Nassau and Castaway Cay.