Search underway for Viking cruise crew member overboard in Mediterranean Sea

A search is underway within the Mediterranean after a Viking Star crew member went overboard throughout a cruise on Monday morning.

A spokesperson for Viking Cruises confirmed to Fox Information Digital {that a} crew member was seen overboard at 11:31 a.m. native time. The ship instantly activated its emergency response and commenced a search in coordination with the Italian Coast Guard.

In response to the spokesperson, no additional particulars can be found presently.

The eight-day, seven-night Viking ocean cruise started in Athens, Greece, earlier than crusing to Turkey and the Greek island of Crete. Throughout Monday’s voyage from Crete to town of Palermo in Sicily, Italy, an announcement was remodeled the ship’s PA system {that a} crew member had gone overboard.

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The cruise ship circled the realm the place the crew member went overboard into the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, October 27, 2025. (Andrew Fone; Fox Information)

A Fox Information producer aboard the cruise mentioned the announcement visibly shocked a waiter serving lunch as others rushed to the railing to scan the ocean. Somebody was heard saying, “I see somebody.”

A crew member was seen reducing a small ring with a flare hooked up to it into the water within the space the place the crew member went overboard on Monday, October 27, 2025. (Andrew Fone; Fox Information)

A crew member was seen throwing an orange life ring into the ocean earlier than reducing a smaller ring with an hooked up flare into the water minutes later. The ship slowly circled the realm the place the crew member went overboard whereas the Italian coast guard carried out a maritime search.

A crew member was seen throwing an orange life ring into the ocean to mark the realm the place the crew member went overboard on Monday, October 27, 2025. (Andrew Fone; Fox Information)

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The cruise director later introduced on board the ship that the search space had been expanded.

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Particulars concerning the lacking crew member and the circumstances by which they went overboard are unclear.

A passenger dashing to the ship’s rail was heard saying, “I see somebody.” (Andrew Fone; Fox Information)

Fox Information was instructed it appeared the lacking crew member was on the second deck when the incident occurred.

The Viking Star can carry as much as 930 passengers and roughly 500 crew members.

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After the cruise stops in Sicily, the plan is to proceed to Naples and at last to Civitavecchia, a coastal metropolis about an hour outdoors Rome.

Fox Information’ Andrew Fone contributed to this report.