The following is the text of a news release from the U.S. Coast Guard:
(NEW ORLEANS) — The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a missing cruise ship crewmember approximately 170 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, on Tuesday.
The Coast Guard suspended the search for Norman DeCastro at 12:42 p.m. after searching over 5,000 square nautical miles.
Watch standers at the Coast Guard 8th District command center in New Orleans received a report Monday that a 39-year-old Filipino crewmember aboard the cruise ship Liberty of the Seas was missing and was last seen at 10:30 p.m. Sunday on the ship’s closed-circuit television.
Involved in the search were:
• An HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew from Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas;
• An HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew from Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile, Ala.;
• The crew of Coast Guard cutter Manowar, an 87-foot patrol boat from Galveston, Texas;
• The crew of Coast Guard cutter Pompano, an 87-foot patrol boat from Gulfport, Miss.
PREVIOUS REPORT
(NEW ORLEANS) —The Coast Guard is searching for a missing cruise ship crewmember approximately 170 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, on Monday.
Watch standers at the Coast Guard 8th District command center in New Orleans received a report at 4:30 a.m. that a 39-year-old Filipino crewmember aboard the cruise ship Liberty of the Seas was missing and was last seen at 1:30 a.m. Monday, on the ship’s closed-circuit television.
Involved in the search are an HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew from Coast Guard Air Station Air Station Corpus Christi and the crew of Coast Guard cutter Manowar, an 87-foot patrol boat from Galveston.
