Tourism & Cruises

A Carnival passenger fell from his balcony and died. Police are investigating.

A passenger died on the Carnival Horizon cruise ship on Friday. Miami-Dade police are investigating.

A spokesperson for the Miami-Dade Police Department confirmed that an adult male passenger died after falling from a balcony to a deck below. Carnival Cruise Line said the passenger died as the ship was returning to PortMiami Friday from a six-night cruise around the Western Caribbean.

Miami-Dade police typically investigate deaths on ships that depart from PortMiami, a county-run facility, a spokesperson said Monday.

This story was originally published November 18, 2019 at 4:59 PM.

Taylor Dolven
Miami Herald
Taylor Dolven is a business journalist who has covered the tourism industry at the Miami Herald since 2018. Her reporting has uncovered environmental violations of cruise companies, the impact of vacation rentals on affordable housing supply, safety concerns among pilots at MIA’s largest cargo airline and the hotel industry’s efforts to delay a law meant to protect workers from sexual harassment.
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