{"id":73287,"date":"2018-12-27T08:49:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T07:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73287"},"modified":"2018-12-27T08:49:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T07:49:05","slug":"search-for-british-crew-member-missing-from-cruise-ship-off-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73287","title":{"rendered":"Search for British crew member missing from cruise ship off Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The US coastguard is searching for a British crew member who went overboard from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship about 300 miles off Puerto Rico on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

Royal Caribbean International says a member of the entertainment team onboard the Harmony of the Seas ship did not report to work as scheduled on 25 December.<\/p>\n

It added: “We are saddened to report that after a review of the ship’s closed-circuit camera footage, he was observed entering an area on Deck 5 at around 4am and was not seen again.<\/p>\n

“Local authorities were notified and a ship-wide search for the crew member was conducted.”<\/p>\n

The company says its care team is providing support to the family, adding that its “thoughts and prayers are with them during this difficult time”.<\/p>\n

Harmony of the Seas is currently sailing on a 7-night itinerary that left Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Its scheduled stops are Philipsburg, St. Maarten; San Juan, Puerto Rico and Labadee, Haiti.<\/p>\n

The Foriegn Office says: “We are providing assistance to the family of a British man who has been reported missing off Fort Lauderdale.”<\/p>\n

The US coastguard named the crewman as 20-year-old Arron Hough.<\/p>\n

A HC-130 Hercules airplane crew from Clearwater and the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Resolute are searching for him.<\/p>\n

The Miami Herald reports Mr Hough is part of the cast which performs “Grease” on the ship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US coastguard is searching for a British crew member who went overboard from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship about 300 miles off Puerto Rico on Christmas Day. Royal Caribbean International says a member of the entertainment team onboard the Harmony of the Seas ship did not report to work as scheduled on 25 December. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}