US Coast Guard Searching for Missing Filipino Seafarer Off Texas Coast

Image Caption: Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas.

GALVESTON, Texas — The Coast Guard is searching a section of the Gulf of Mexico for a crewmember missing from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship.

The cruise ship Liberty of the Seas was 170 miles southeast of Galveston when the unidentified 39-year-old Filipino crewmember was reported as missing at 4:30 a.m. Monday. A Coast Guard statement says the crewmember had been last seen at 1:30 a.m. Monday on the ship’s closed-circuit television.

The crew of an HC-144 Ocean Sentry from Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi and the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Manowar out of Galveston are participating in the search.

Liberty of the Seas left Galveston on a seven-day cruise on Sunday, with planned stops in Mexico, Grand Cayman Island and Jamaica before its scheduled return on April 30.

(Source: Inquirer.net)