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The Coast Guard said the passenger was 28-year-old Tyler Barnett from Houma, Louisiana. Petty Officer 3rd Class Anthony Randisi told USA TODAY that Carnival reported the guest was last seen around midnight on Monday. Carnival said it had informed the Coast Guard and the man's family of the development. The cruise line didn't release the man's name — though the man's mother, Elisha Reid, told BI in an earlier interview that her son, Barnett, was the missing passenger.
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"The U.S. Coast Guard, they have been amazing; they searched the water top to bottom, left to right, everything you can think of, and they even came out to Port St. Lucie," Danielle said. Nathan Diller is a consumer travel reporter for USA TODAY based in Nashville. The search area originally encompassed approximately 200 miles, but was narrowed to "roughly 30 miles southwest of" Louisiana's Southwest Pass, the Coast Guard said on X, formerly Twitter.
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Carnival said that McGrath was "last seen in his cabin at approximately 7 a.m. according to his cabinmate." “He has a generally calm or apathetic attitude, and will probably refuse help if offered. This affect, along with his quick walking pace, makes him seem confident or focused, like he knows where he is going and is walking with conviction. He cannot show or process emotions like a healthy person would,” Miller posted on Facebook on April 7. Miller asked that if anyone does spot her father, they trail him from a distance and call local authorities to report the sighting. Initially, the family suspected that their father and husband has been staying hydrated and using the bathrooms at local churches, but they weren’t sure if he had access to food.
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He handles a wide variety of cases from serious injuries to the highest profile sexual assault and cruise crime cases. “It makes you feel crazy to be stuck on a ship where everyone else is having a good time. It was supposed to be a vacation, but for us, it’s hell,” she told the outlet. Officials told The Post on Wednesday that Tyler Barnett, 28, was seen on surveillance video climbing onto a lifeboat and then leaping off the side of the Jamaica-bound Carnival Glory in the early hours of Monday.
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Mason said she did not think Barnett would take his own life, and there is no security footage of anyone going overboard. A Carnival Cruise passenger who mysteriously vanished from the ship during a family vacation was not allowed to sail because he was on probation for assault after his wife said he threatened to kill her and their kids, according to a report. Barnett's sister, Destiny Barnett, who was also on the ship, told NBC News, "It makes you feel crazy to be stuck on a ship where everyone else is having a good time. It was supposed to be a vacation, but for us, it's hell." The search for 28-year-old Tyler Barnett of Houma, Louisiana, resumed Wednesday morning after being paused due to severe weather conditions and safety concerns.
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U.S. Customs and Border Control told Carnival Kevin McGrath was not detected during the debarkation process, NBC Miami reported. The U.S. Coast Guard searched 3,300 square nautical miles with helicopters, but nothing showed up. The overboard detection system on the ship never went off, and there is no other evidence that Kevin McGrath went overboard, according to Miami-Dade police. The US Coast Guard has been searching a 200-mile area in treacherous weather conditions for Barnett, who was last seen by loved ones just before midnight as he said he was heading to his room, but his bed was never slept in. Police said he was last seen in his cabin aboard the ship at around 2 a.m.
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Reid said her son was a great father to his two twin girls, who she said now are orphans since their mom had earlier died. "Tyler was my only son, my firstborn. He was my everything in life! He was the air I breathed. He was the beat of my heart. I feel as if my heart no longer beats." She said the Port St. Lucie community where she and her brother are from has been offering "a lot of love" to the family.
Coast Guard conducted a search by helicopter in the waters around the Port of Miami according to multiple sources. The Post has reached out to Carnival for comment about the family’s latest statements. The Coast Guard announced Thursday that they were suspending their search for McGrath. McGrath's brother declined to comment when contacted by phone Tuesday.
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Her father awoke one morning to find her missing and investigators have rejected claims she may have fallen overboard due to her history as a strong swimmer and no sign of her body in the water. She was never found, though several people have reported sightings, including a U.S. Navy soldier who said Bradley approached him at a brothel asking for help. Merrian Carver was 40 when she went missing on a seven-day Royal Caribbean cruise in 2004 and her father later founded the International Cruise Victims organization.
There have been several high-profile cruise ship disappearances that were never solved. A British crew member of the Disney Wonder ship, Rebessa Coriam, has been missing for more than 12 years. She was last seen on CCTV footage in the crew lounge onboard the ship in March of 2011, but was not found anywhere onboard the ship following her disappearance and there is no evidence she went overboard. The investigation into her case has been criticized by the public and her family. Chris Matheson, a former member of British Parliament, said in 2015 her case "smells like a crime has taken place." Amy Lynn Bradley famously went missing during a Caribbean cruise when she was 23 years old in 1998.
Mason said a granddaughter confirmed that Barnett climbed over the edge of the rail and jumped on the lifeboat, but walked on it for a few minutes before he appeared to slip and fall off. McGrath is urging other passengers who may have seen him that morning to speak up. “The whole point of the cruise was to celebrate my dad’s 60th birthday, and it was a big group of about 40 people,” she said.
Barnett was traveling with family aboard the Carnival Glory ship, a 13-deck, 110,000-ton boat with the capacity to carry 2,980 passengers. There have been several instances of people going overboard on the ship, including a 35-year-old who jumped into the water near Florida in 2007 and was rescued eight hours later. A 65-year-old woman was found dead after jumping overboard in 2015, and another passenger, a 21-year-old student, was never found after falling overboard south of the Bahamas that same year. Barnett was reported missing by a family member on the ship Monday, a day after the Carnival Glory departed New Orleans for a weeklong journey, Carnival Cruise Line told FOX Business. "In the video we showed to his family, he can be seen intentionally opening a gate, walking into a restricted area, and jumping from a lifeboat," a Carnival spokesperson told FOX Business in a statement.
According to Carnival Cruise Line, McGrath was last seen at about 7 a.m. Monday by his cabinmate, just around the time that guests were supposed to be getting off the ship. According to Carnival's website, the Carnival Glory can hold 2,980 passengers and 1,150 crew members.
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