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14.11.2023 - 22:27 / insider.com / Hannah Towey
A missing 28-year-old cruise passenger on the Carnival Glory is believed to have potentially gone overboard on Monday and the Coast Guard is searching the waters near New Orleans to find him.
But while the passenger's mom told Business Insider she's hopeful he's still alive, she's worried that he may not have survived and believes someone on board must know what happened to her son.
Tyler Barnett of Houma, Louisiana, was first reported missing Monday morning by a family member, just a day after leaving New Orleans for a week-long cruise to Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands, and Cozumel, Mexico, according to a statement from Carnival.
The cruise line said security on board searched for Barnett, looked at camera footage, and called the U.S. Coast Guard.
Barnett was last seen on security footage around midnight on Monday, according to the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard launched two aircraft to try to find Barnett in a 200-mile area near where the ship sailed into the Gulf of Mexico.
The cruise line said teams are helping Barnett's family members still on board and that the U.S. Coast Guard cleared Carnival Glory to carry on with its cruise.
But Elisha Reid, Barnett's mother, said Carnival told her daughter — who is currently on the ship — that there was no footage of what happened to her son.
All cruise ships are required to have 42-inch guard rails and man-overboard imaging under the 2010 Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act. But many ships have yet to implement newer technology that automatically detects when a person goes overboard by using thermal cameras and radars that promptly alert crew members, Business Insider's Hannah Towey previously reported.
The time between someone going overboard and the cruise ship launching a search-and-rescue mission can often be the difference between life and death.
Carnival did not immediately respond to Insider's question about whether the Carnival Glory employs any such tech.
"Something doesn't add up," Reid told Business Insider in an interview. "I am going to find out. I will get answers. If there's something, foul play, if there's something going on amongst the staff, I'm going to bring it to light. I will not give up if it's the last breath in me."
Reid told Business Insider that her son's keycard was used to enter the ship's casino just after midnight, then to his room 12 minutes later.
Reid, who isn't currently on board, said Tyler was on the cruise with his sister and uncle when he went missing. She didn't find out her son was missing until a cousin messaged her, unaware that she hadn't gotten the news yet.
"I have my moments where I break, but I'm keeping the faith," Reid said. "What's important to me is to know where he's at and to have him home, whether
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