19-Year-Old Who Went Overboard on Cruise Ship Yet to Be Found: 'We Need to Apply Pressure'

A 19-year-old man is still missing after going overboard on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship.Photo:Getty

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A 19-year-old Texas man is still missing amid an ongoing search after he went overboard in the Caribbean while on the Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas cruise ship on Tuesday.

A rep for the Royal Caribbean cruise line said in a statement to PEOPLE: “On August 29, a guest sailing onWonder of the Seaswent overboard. The ship’s crew immediately launched a search and rescue operation and is working closely with local authorities. Out of respect for the family, we will not share further details about this unfortunate event.”

It remains unclear how Ropich went overboard after the vessel set sail for a seven-day voyage from Port Canaveral, Florida, on Aug. 27.

“We just want our brother home. They’re taking too long and barely telling us anything," Savannah told the outlet.

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“We are very hopeful if they open [the] search back in the ocean,” she continued. “We need them to open it again.”

Savannah wrote in an Aug. 31 Facebook post, “We need to apply pressure… Sigmund is not just ‘a man.’ HE IS A SON, A BIG AND A LITTLE BROTHER, A COUSIN, AN UNCLE, A NEPHEW, A FRIEND, A HOMIE, A CLASSMATE, A CO-WORKER, A NEIGHBOR!!!”

She later added, “THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT THIS BOY IS NOT JUST A RANDOM PERSON… THERE IS AN ARMY THAT IS ROOTIN FOR HIM TO COME HOME. I am begging anyone and everyone… Please.. I just want my brother home.”

source: people.com