Vision of the Seas
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Template:Infobox ship imageTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship characteristicsTemplate:More citations needed Vision of the Seas is a Vision-class cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean International, the last of her class. Her maiden voyage was on May 2, 1998, following which she sailed for a year in Europe before being moved to other routes.
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Design
The cruise ship has a deadweight tonnage of 6,300 tons and a gross tonnage of 78,491. Vision of the Seas has a length of Template:Convert and a beam of Template:Convert. Vision of the Seas was launched in 1997. The draft of the vessel is Template:Convert. The cruise ship has 10 passenger decks and capacity for 2,416 guests. Vision of the Seas has a crew of 765.
History
In 2017, during a Caribbean cruise out of Galveston, a member of Vision of the Seas' housekeeping staff went overboard unnoticed.[2] No search efforts were launched and the crewmember remains missing.[3]
In May 2018, a Vision of the Seas crew member died by suicide by jumping overboard while the ship was enroute to Galveston, Texas.[4]
In 2019, while berthed at Livorno, a crewmember of Vision of the Seas went overboard.[5] Port divers later found the crewmember dead.[3]
In June 2020, a Vision of the Seas crew member died in hospital shortly after being repatriated from the ship during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The death was not COVID related.[6]
On 23 December 2023, a passenger was lost when they fell overboard while the ship was off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina.[7][8] The United States Coast Guard undertook a 1,625 square mile search, but could find no trace of the passenger after eight hours.[9]
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