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Employee's wife jumps off Royal Caribbean ship

By Johanna Jainchill

The wife of an employee of Royal Caribbean International's Monarch of the Seas went overboard from the ship on Dec. 31, the cruise line said.

Closed-circuit camera footage captured the woman going overboard on deck 11 portside at approximately 4:11 a.m., Royal Caribbean said. The line said government officials reviewing the footage determined that the woman had jumped overboard.

The U.S. Coast Guard called off its search for the passenger on Saturday.

The Monarch was on a five-day Bahamas cruise that departed Port Canaveral on Dec. 28 and returned to port Jan. 2.

The woman's husband reported her missing at 12:15 a.m. last Thursday, while the ship was sailing from Nassau to CocoCay, Bahamas.

Royal Caribbean said it had hired the woman but that she had not officially started working for Royal Caribbean. 

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