FBI investigating "suspicious" death of a woman on a Carnival cruise ship

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The woman's body and her husband were debarked in Nassau, according to Carnival spokesperson Matt Lupoli.

Carnival says 'all indications' are a medical issue is to blame in the death of passenger

"While we continue to cooperate with authorities, all indications pertaining to the death of a guest on board Carnival Sunshine suggest that it was a natural death due to a medical condition," the cruise line said in a statement Tuesday. When the Carnival cruise ship returned to its home port in Charleston, the FBI boarded the ship and, among other investigation, began interviewing passengers who were in adjacent cabins on the ship. A spokesperson for the owner, Carnival, told Newsweek that the deceased woman and her husband were disembarked in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, where authorities were investigating the incident and conducting an autopsy.

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Investigators with the FBI Columbia field office said a female passenger died during Carnival Sunshine’s Feb. 27 voyage to Nassau, Bahamas. “Medical staff and other crew members of Carnival’s Sunshine were made aware of the passenger being unresponsive and immediately attempted life-saving measures,” a spokesperson for the FBI’s Columbia field office told USA Today. "Medical staff and other crew members of Carnival’s Sunshine were made aware of the passenger being unresponsive and immediately attempted life-saving measures," the FBI said. When the ship returned to Charleston on March 4, FBI officials searched the dead passenger's room for evidence, according to the news release. FBI officials said the incident was isolated and there was "no threat to any other passengers before or after the passenger was found deceased."

FBI investigating 'suspicious death' aboard Carnival Sunshine

The Federal Bureau of Investigation office in Columbia, South Carolina, is investigating the suspicious death of a woman aboard a Carnival cruise ship, according to Public Affairs Specialist Kevin Wheeler. "Both the deceased and her husband were debarked in Nassau and Bahamian authorities have already investigated the circumstances and are conducting an autopsy," the company said in a statement. The FBI says it is investigating the "suspicious death" of a female passenger onboard the Carnival Sunshine cruise ship during a sailing to the Bahamas. "Both the deceased and her husband were debarked in Nassau and Bahamian authorities have already investigated the circumstances and are conducting an autopsy," the cruise line said in a statement to CBS News. The FBI said it investigates suspicious deaths of U.S. citizens as well as "certain crimes on the high seas." Officials have not disclosed the identity of the passenger or the cause of death and said the incident remains under investigation.

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"This is a matter for authorities in The Bahamas and Charleston and we have no further comments," Lupoli said. Her husband got off the cruise in Nassau on March 1, and her remains were also removed, he said. FBI Evidence Response Team members responded to the ship after it returned to Charleston on Saturday to process the guest's room. I have also never seen a PR statement by Carnival Cruise Line or its parent company, Carnival Corporation, ending with “we have no further comments,” especially followed up with a statement which completely contradicts its earlier statement. The cruise liner departed Charleston in the late afternoon on Saturday, before returning to the Bahamas on Tuesday, according to ship tracker CruiseMapper. The United States Coast Guard said late on Wednesday that it has suspended search efforts for Peale.

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A spokesperson for Carnival Cruise Line told News 2 the FBI joined Carnival Sunshine when it returned to port in Charleston on Saturday to conduct its investigation. In 2022, the State Ports Authority announced it would not extend its contract with Carnival after the current pact expires at the end of 2024. The SPA's decision came after years of unsuccessful attempts to build a new cruise ship terminal at Union Pier in the face of opposition from environmentalists and historic preservation groups. The Sunshine is the third Carnival ship to call Charleston its home port since the cruise line started offering year-round voyages from the Union Pier Terminal in downtown Charleston in 2010. But a report published in November 2020 in the International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health put the number of deaths at 623 deaths between 2000 and 2019. "We are fully cooperating," Matt Lupolis, senior manager of public relations for Carnival Cruise Line said March 6.

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"This incident was isolated and there was no threat to any other passengers before or after the passenger was found deceased," Kevin Wheeler, spokesperson for the Columbia field office, said. The total number of passengers who have died globally on cruise ships is difficult to determine because ships are owned by different countries that have different reporting practices. According to an FBI news release, medical staff and other crew members immediately attempted life-saving measures after learning the female passenger was unresponsive. The FBI is investigating the death of a passenger who was touring on the Carnival cruise ship Sunshine, conducting a search of her room when the vessel returned to the port of Charleston on March 4. The FBI is investigating the "suspicious" death of a woman aboard a Carnival cruise ship traveling from Charleston, South Carolina, to Nassau, Bahamas, last month.

FBI investigating suspicious death of passenger aboard Carnival Sunshine

Carnival Cruise Lines said Tuesday that the woman who died aboard one of its ships last month likely died from natural causes. The announcement comes one day after the FBI said it would be investigating the woman's "suspicious" death. In a separate statement provided by Lupoli, the cruise line said Tuesday that all indications suggest the passenger died "a natural death due to a medical condition." The FBI has jurisdiction to investigate potential crimes and suspicious deaths when the ship is U.S. owned, as the Carnival Sunshine is, and pertains to an American citizen, it has previously stated. It is also permitted to investigate if the ship is in U.S. waters, or if it was departing or arriving in an American port.

The FBI said it believed it was an isolated incident with no other reports of threats to passengers during the cruise. However, the bureau routinely investigates certain crimes on the high seas, as well as suspicious deaths of U.S. persons. The team responded to process the passenger’s room once the ship returned to Charleston on March 4 and to review the circumstances of the death. "While we continue to cooperate with authorities, all indications pertaining to the death of a guest on board Carnival Sunshine suggest that it was a natural death due to a medical condition," Carnival said in the statement released on Tuesday. And I am not aware of a single crime on a cruise ship successfully investigated and prosecuted by the Bahamas.

"The FBI investigates certain crimes on the high seas, as well as suspicious deaths of U.S. persons," Wheeler said. "As such, FBI Evidence Response Team (ERT) members responded to process the passenger’s room once the ship returned to the Charleston port on March 4." The FBI investigates certain crimes on the high seas, as well as suspicious deaths of Americans. As such, FBI Evidence Response Team members responded to process the passenger’s room once the ship returned to the Charleston port. On Feb. 27, Carnival's Sunshine crew members and medical staff responded to an unresponsive female passenger, the FBI Columbia field office said in a news release. Despite their best efforts, the woman was pronounced dead on the ship, the release said.

The 44-year-old woman, who was not identified by name in the announcement, died on a voyage to Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, the FBI's field office in Columbia, South Carolina, said Sunday. Wheeler said the investigation remains ongoing and that "no other details can be provided at this time." It found that the most common reasons for passenger deaths were falls—either overboard or onto another deck—as well as cardiac arrests and suicides. Medical staff and other crew members of Carnival’s Sunshine were made aware of the passenger being unresponsive and immediately attempted life-saving measures, Wheeler said.

FBI officials previously said the death posed "no threat to any other passengers" and that the incident was isolated. The FBI is investigating the "suspicious death" of a woman who was on a five -day cruise from South Carolina to the Bahamas, the agency announced. The "suspicious death" was isolated, according to the FBI, and there was no threat to any other passengers before or after the passenger was found deceased. Two search warrants were filed on Wednesday, one to search the cabin where a woman was found unresponsive on the Carnival Cruise Sunshine and the other to search of a Volkswagen Jetta with North Carolina plates, also on the basis of evidence of a crime. The local police in Charleston, South Carolina has absolutely no jurisdiction to either investigate or prosecute crime on cruise ships.

The woman, who has not been identified, died on the Carnival Sunshine, which departed from Charleston, South Carolina, on Feb. 27 for the trip to Nassau, CNN reported. Carnival said they are "fully cooperating" with the investigation and that the incident is being handled by authorities in the Bahamas and in Charleston. Carnival said it believes the initial response to the emergency medical "was appropriate," per the reports. The passenger died Feb. 27 on a trip on the Carnival Sunshine to Nassau, Bahamas, the FBI said in a statement Sunday.

The SPA has instead decided to sell the 64-acre Union Pier site to private developers, and the maritime agency recently submitted a zoning plan for the site with the city of Charleston. Bahamian authorities are investigating the circumstances and conducted an autopsy. Sign up for PEOPLE's free True Crime newsletter for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases. The Sunshine, which carries up to 3,002 passengers and 1,040 crew members, returned to Charleston, South Carolina, on Saturday, the cruise line said.

The cruise left Charleston on Feb. 27, said Matt Lupoli, Carnival Cruise Line's senior manager of public relations. She most likely died early Feb. 28, said Kevin Wheeler, a public affairs specialist for the FBI's Columbia field office. The woman died on the line's Carnival Sunshine ship during a cruise to the Bahamas that departed from Charleston, South Carolina, on Feb. 27. The Carnival Sunshine was launched in 1996 and was once the world's largest passenger vessel. Wheeler said the woman was on the ship during its Feb. 27 voyage to Nassau, Bahamas. "The decision to suspend the active search efforts pending further development is never one we take lightly. We offer our most sincere condolences to Mr. Peale's family and friends," the US Coast Guard said in a statement.