Brit cruise passenger 'falls overboard' and reported missing in Adriatic Sea

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A frantic search has been launched after a Brit reportedly fell overboard on a cruise ship in the Adriatic Sea. Croatian authorities said "a young Brit" from the Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas ship went missing in the early hours on Friday, August 9 - and hasn't been seen since, reports the Mirror.One passenger, Nicole Bullock, who was travelling on the cruise ship, said she woke up to an emergency message blaring through the vessel.

She wrote on X: "Woken up on the cruise ship around 3.40am to the emergency message 'Oscar Oscar Oscar off the port side'. Man overboard.

Been watching the rescue efforts off my balcony all day, hoping for a positive outcome."It remains unclear if the missing tourist is a man or a woman.

It is thought that the Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas is on a seven day Greece-Croatia route, and the journey started six days ago on Saturday August 3.An urgent search and rescue mission is still being carried out near the remote island of Jabuka, it is said.