The U.S. Coast Guard is searching waters northwest of Hawaii for a female passenger who intentionally jumped overboard a cruise ship on Wednesday, CBS News reported.
Julie Benson, a spokeswoman for Princess Cruises, said witness accounts and security footage proves the 54-year-old woman was "intentionally going overboard."
She was last seen on the ship around 1:00 p.m. Video footage shows the woman jumped from Deck 7, which is about 50 feet above the water.
"The water is quite cold, and the seas are quite rough," Benson said. "But it's not inconceivable that she could have survived."
The Grand Princess cruise ship immediately rerouted it's course and began searching for her, about 650 miles north of Hilo, off Hawaii's Big Island, Benson added.
Following the incident, ship members notified the Coast Guard who then sent a HC-130 Hercules airplane crew.
The 1,300-cabin ship had departed from San Francisco three days earlier and was on a roundtrip tour around Hawaii. The cruise ship has 17 decks, is 950 feet long, and 150 feet tall.
Officials have not released the woman's name.
In May, it was announced that officials would be reopening the case of a man who mysteriously died on a cruise ship in 2005.
George Smith, 26, fell overboard the Royal Caribbean ship Brilliance of the Seas at 4:30 a.m. on July 5, 2005. His wife, Jennifer Hagel-Smith, was discovered passed out in a hallway that morning.
"The tide is turning, I think, now," Maureen Smith, the man's mother, told CNN. "With their resources we are going to be charging ahead."
