Body Found In The Sea - Oceana

[Chubbas Nanny]

Hi

Just heard on our local news that passengers on the Oceana in Southampton are being questioned by police about a body found in the sea. They suspect that the person found was a passenger from the Oceana.

Chubbas XX

[timespliters]

Hi

Just heard on our local news that passengers on the Oceana in Southampton are being questioned by police about a body found in the sea. They suspect that the person found was a passenger from the Oceana.

Chubbas XX

My papers says she was off the ship

[timespliters]

A post-mortem examination on the body of a cruise ship passenger who is thought to have fallen overboard into the Solent is to get under way.
The woman, 67, who has not been named, was reported missing by her husband from the P&O Oceana on Sunday morning.

Rescuers found her in the water at Thorne Channel near Cowes, Isle of Wight, and she was then flown to Southampton General Hospital.

The woman was last seen in her cabin at about 0545 BST, coastguards said.

'Unexplained death'

The Oceana was returning from a two-day cruise between Southampton and Zeebrugge, Belgium.

Det Insp Kath Barnes, from Hampshire Constabulary, said: "We are keeping an open mind as to how this incident occurred and are currently treating the woman's death as unexplained.

"We will continue to investigate this matter and ask anyone with information to contact the police."

A spokesman for Solent Coastguard said: "The lady's husband had reported to crew that he had last seen her in their cabin earlier that morning around 5.45am, when the vessel would have been off Calshot."

Earlier, a spokesman for P&O Cruises said: "Our missing persons procedures were immediately put into action and this included notification of the Coastguard."

The Oceana has a capacity of 2,272 passengers.



bbcnews

[wakelover]

Oh crikey - how awful! eeksmi

[millyman]

eeksmi that's terrible.

[silver1]

Oh how awfuleeksmi

[sparkieplug24]

Terrible way to die.

Lets hope for the family sake it was nothing more than an accident.