15th May 2013. Search for missing Carnival Spirit cruise couple Paul Rossington and Kristen Schroder called off - he may have been trying to help her. Your video will begin in 3 seconds A search for the couple who went overboard from a cruise ship on the NSW north coast has been called off. Sky News 10 May 2013 Share : Search for NSW cruise couple called off Your video will play following this advertisement VIDEO footage from aboard the Carnival Spirit cruise liner appears to show a young woman jump from the deck before her panic-stricken boyfriend follows her over the railing about 20 seconds later.. A description of the security footage was given by police yesterday as they called off their forlorn search for paramedic Paul Rossington, 30, and his real estate agent girlfriend Kristen Schroder, 27.
The couple is presumed dead, more than 48 hours after plunging from the ship. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the couple's fall and they were investigating the possibility Ms Schroder jumped and her boyfriend tried to rescue her. Mr Rossington had been a paramedic for the past five years. Coast Guard: Cause of Carnival Triumph’s engine-room fire was a leak in fuel oil line. Dave Martin/AP The cruise ship Carnival Triumph is towed into Mobile Bay near Dauphin Island, Ala., on Feb. 14 after losing power for five days.
Now that investigators have determined the origins of the engine-room fire that paralyzed a Carnival cruise ship at sea for five days, they will try to learn more about the cause, the crew's response, and why the ship was disabled for so long. A Coast Guard official said Monday that a leak in a fuel oil return line caused the engine-room fire that disabled the Carnival Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving 4,200 people without power or working toilets for five days. Cmdr. Teresa Hatfield addressed the finding in a conference call with reporters.
She estimated that the investigation of the disabled ship would take six months. Hatfield said the Bahamas — where the ship is registered, or flagged — is leading the investigation, with the Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board representing U.S. interests in the probe. Mobile/Cockburn - sister cities. Japan halts whale hunt after Sea Shepherd clashes. Updated Thu 21 Feb 2013, 10:35am AEDT Sea Shepherd is claiming victory after Japan temporarily suspended its annual whale hunt in the Southern Ocean.
On Wednesday the anti-whaling group claimed two of its boats, the Steve Irwin and the Bob Barker, were rammed by a Japanese ship in Australian Antarctic waters. It said the attacks happened after they were ordered to leave the area by one of the boats in the Japanese whaling fleet. It also claimed armed Japanese coastguards threw "concussion grenades" at activists on the ships. Japan's fisheries agency has denied those reports, but confirmed that one of its factory ships, the Nisshin Maru, rammed two boats belonging to Sea Shepherd. However, it said the clashes happened after activists came too close to a Japanese vessel which was refuelling. Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research has announced it has stopped work for the time being because it is too difficult to refuel.
"They're losing tens of millions of dollars," he said.