The man who went overboard on a Carnival cruise ship was on his first-ever cruise, his partner said.
"He loved the cruise life," Jennilyn Michelle Blosser told WTKR of her fiancé, Ronnie Lee Peale Jr.Peale Jr. fell off the Carnival Magic ship early Monday and remains missing.
The man who remains missing after falling overboard on a Carnival cruise sail returning from the Bahamas was in a "happy place" on his first-ever cruise before tragedy struck, his partner said.
The United States Coast Guard said crews had already spent 19 hours searching for Peale Jr. across 4,044 square miles.
Crews were continuing their search for Peale Jr. on Wednesday morning, the Coast Guard said.
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