A woman fell overboard on a cruise ship returning to Florida from the Bahamas on Thursday, December 15.

Authorities did not publicly identify the 36-year-old woman who plunged into the ocean on Thursday morning on the MSC Meraviglia Cruise Ship. The US Coast guard recovered her remains about 18 miles from Port Canaveral, Florida.

When the incident happened, the cruise ship was reportedly heading back to Florida from Ocean Cay, an island in the Bahamas.

Passengers on the cruise ship were woken up at around 5 am on the last day of their cruise by three loud alarms telling them that a passenger had fallen overboard.

The US Coast Guard quickly launched a search using boats and helicopters. They searched the water near the cruise ship while the announcements on the cruise ship warned passengers to stay in their cabins.

The ship’s crew went around the ship checking everyone’s ID for a head count.

A passenger on the ship told a news outlet that the crew was preparing to lower a lifeboat at some point during the search. Passengers also saw some of the crew wearing life vests, leading them to believe they had found the passenger who went overboard.

Sadly, the rescue team realized that the passenger had sustained fatal injuries, so the lifeboat was never put in the water.

According to reports, one of the crew members told a passenger that the woman had jumped, but that rumor was unverified.

The Communications Director of MSC Cruises, Field Sutton, released a statement from the company announcing that early Thursday morning, the ship’s advanced detection system alerted the crew that a passenger had fallen overboard. He said the crew immediately conducted a search and rescue operation with the US Coast Guard.

Unfortunately, the passenger had fatal injuries despite the team’s best efforts. Sutton said that the Cruise Ship Company cooperated with authorities as they conducted their investigation and offered condolences to the victim’s family.

The woman’s death comes just weeks after a man accidentally fell overboard on a cruise on Thanksgiving Day.

James Michael Grimes, 28, had been having the time of his life on a five-day Thanksgiving cruise with more than a dozen of his family members. The cruise ship was heading to Cozumel, Mexico, and his parents and sister were also onboard.

The 28-year-old had spent most of the day drinking alcohol, but he couldn’t say how much he had drunk. He had also won an air guitar competition that evening. The man spent more than 20 hours in the ocean before being miraculously rescued.

According to Grimes, he accidentally fell overboard, which knocked him unconscious. He then woke up in the water, which was freezing cold, and spent more than 15 hours waiting to be rescued. He claimed that he had fought a shark off while he was in the water.

Grimes told reporters that he was swimming in one direction when he saw what he thought was a shark coming at him from the corner of his eye. The shark-like creature bumped one of his legs, but he kicked it with the other.

Grimes met a better fate than the woman from Florida.