A person has died after going overboard from a passenger ship off the Channel Islands. The woman, reported to be in her 20s, was winched out of the sea after the fall from the MSC Virtuosa last night.
She was taken to hospital but pronounced dead. The French coastguard has said it received a man overboard distress message shortly after midnight on Saturday, October 12.
A French navy helicopter H160 based in Maupertus, France, was scrambled for the rescue mission. It was supported by an offshore rescue vessel from Goury along with a RNLI lifeboat from Alderney and a Channel Islands Air Search plane.
A French coastguard spokesman said: “The H160 helicopter finds the person in its search area and hoists them out. The helicopter lands at the Tourlaville rescue centre where a medical team declares the death.”