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FBI Investigating Mysterious Fall of Cruise Passenger Missing at Sea

  • The FBI is looking into the death of a Carnival cruise passenger who fell overboard on his first cruise during a trip from the Bahamas to Virginia.
  • The passenger, Ronnie Lee Peale Jr., was reported missing by his fiancée and last seen on security footage leaning over the railing of his balcony and dropping into the water.
  • The U.S. Coast Guard searched over 5,000 square miles for 60 hours before suspending rescue efforts.
  • The Carnival Magic cruise ship was carrying nearly 4,000 passengers and crew at the time of the incident and continued on to port in Norfolk, Virginia.
  • Friends and family of the 35-year-old Peale Jr. are mourning the loss of a man described as a "social butterfly."
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