Recent High School Graduate Falls Off Carnival Cruise Ship

The Coast Guard is searching for an 18-year-old believed to have gone overboard from the Carnival Fantasy in the Gulf of Mexico. Bruce Okrepki just graduated high school and was on the ship with 35 of his classmates.

By: Jamie Burch | WKRG-TV
Published: May 25, 2009

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The Coast Guard is searching for a man
believed to have gone overboard from a cruise ship in the Gulf of
Mexico.
The Coast Guard say 18-year-old Bruce Okrepki reportedly went
overboard from the Carnival Fantasy at about 9:45 p.m. Sunday,
about 150 miles southwest of Tampa.
O'Krepki is from Hammond, La., where The Daily Star newspaper
reported Monday that he was a recent graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas
High School. He was with about 35 classmates on the ship.
A search plane, helicopter and Coast Guard cutter were sent out
to search.
The ship had left New Orleans and was en route to Key West.

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