It seems that a passenger has fallen overboard from an Atlantis cruise off the coast of Mexico on Friday.

ABC7 photojournalist Sean Patrick Lewis aboard the Royal
Caribbean cruise ship Allure of the Seas said passengers were awakened
Friday morning by an emergency announcement, saying a man was believed
to be overboard.

The ship’s captain confirmed the incident to passengers and said all rescue attempts were being made.

An emergency assembly was called so passengers could be counted.

Royal Caribbean has aid a passenger
witnessed another passenger going overboard at about 7 a.m. According to
the statement, footage from the ship’s closed-circuit camera showed the
passenger, a 30-year-old British man, going over the balcony railing in
his stateroom.  More details at ABC NEWS.

THE ALLURE OF THE SEAS holds the record for the largest passenger ship ever constructed –  though her sister ship, Oasis of the Seas,  is just 2 inches smaller!

The ship features a two-deck dance hall, a theatre with 1,380 seats, and an ice skating rink. Many of the ship’s interiors were extensively decorated by muralist Clarissa Parish.

Steven Barry Krumholz, 51, was arrested while on board
the Allure of the Seas while it was docked in St. Thomas.  – last year, on their 2011 cruise.

News reports said  that  Customs and Border Protection agents boarded the
ship and found drugs on another passenger, who said he had
purchased them from Krumholz before the trip and picked them up while on
board.

Agents who searched Krumholz’s cabin reported finding
more than 140 ecstasy pills, nearly three grams of methamphetamine, a
small quantity of ketamine and about $51,000 in cash. While waiting for
the suspect in his cabin, two more passengers came to buy drugs,
according to agents!

I never have liked cruise ships…..