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A passenger on the Royal Caribbean ship Oasis fell overboard and into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, the Sun Sentinel reported.
The man was only initially identified as a 35-year-old from Brazil. The Oasis was on its way back to Port Everglades, Florida, after a seven-day route through the eastern Caribbean.
Before falling overboard, the man had been standing on the seventh deck of the ship and jumped onto a lifeboat one deck below, the U.S. Coast Guard told the Sun Sentinel.
Video footage taken by another passenger, Jennifer St. Laurent, that captures the man’s fall was obtained and published by Yahoo.
Jennifer St. Laurent / Via yahoo.com
The video footage shows the man shouting, "Let go of me!" and "You don't touch me!" shortly before losing balance and falling from the lifeboat into the ocean.
A search and rescue effort is underway.
Coast Guard Petty Officer David Schuhlein told the Sun Sentinel there is one aircraft with seven crew members that took flight at 4 a.m., and was flying "all the low search patterns in the area," he said. One helicopter has also been deployed.
BuzzFeed News has reached out to the U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Caribbean International for more information.
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