Passengers tell of chaos after woman jumps from Taylor Swift-themed Royal Caribbean cruise liner

Passengers connected committee a Taylor Swift-themed cruise wherever a pistillate jumped overboard successful the Bahamas person told of their shock.

The Royal Caribbean Allure of the Seas vessel was astir 17 miles from the capital, Nassau, erstwhile the 66-year-old was reported to person fallen overboard connected Tuesday night.

Passengers said the unidentified pistillate fell from the 14th level of the 236-feet gangly vessel astatine astir 9.40pm, sparking interest and panic.

Ashley Sindaco, 38, and Marie Sindaco, 67, were aboard the Swift-themed vessel erstwhile the pistillate fell disconnected the 236-foot gangly Allure of the Seas vas - conscionable 17 miles northbound of Nassau, Bahamas.

Speaking to TMZ Live, Ashley told however she near an amusement entertainment connected the ship, lone to perceive repeated warnings implicit the boat’s tannoy.

When she tried to exit the deck, she recovered that the doors were locked.

“The doors were closed, determination was idiosyncratic guarding it and everybody was yelling, ‘Someone jumped!’” she told TMZ Live connected Wednesday.

She made her mode to the apical platform and recovered passengers and unit searching for the missing woman.

“I stayed up determination for astir 3 hours, conscionable watching, praying and wondering what was happening,” she told the publication.

A sister ship, the Utopia of the Seas, besides joined the search.

“Another sister vessel came over, and we were some doing rotating searches, on with a level and a chopper that came astir midnight,” she said.

“They were making a angiosperm enactment astir some ships and the different 4 antithetic ships successful the water.”

The US Coast Guard said it was assisting the Royal Bahamas Defense Force successful the search, NBC reported.

An HC-144 airplane unit and an MH-65 Dolphin chopper unit were besides drafted successful to assistance hunt efforts.

A Royal Caribbean spokesperson said it was moving with the section authorities and providing enactment and assistance to the guest’s household "during this hard time".

Additional crews from the Royal Bahamas Defense Force and the US Coast Guard were inactive searching for the missing pistillate until astir 2:45 p.m. connected Wednesday afternoon. 

The ship, which had respective 100 Swifties connected board, had near Florida connected Monday arsenic portion of a fan-organised lawsuit called In My Cruise Era.