Last night we told you about the 21 one year old who had jumped - or fell - off the 12th deck of the Liberty of the Seas.
Tonight, police have confirmed his name; he is: Jose Miguel Pietri Tello.
Tello, a Puerto Rican student, was along with family members onboard the Liberty of the Seas when his family noticed that he was missing yesterday morning around 9:00.
A review of the ship's surveillance cameras revealed that Tello jumped off the twelfth deck of the ship around 3:38 that morning.
At that time, the cruise ship was way out in the blue, 6 miles west off Maaga Caye Lighthouse at Turneffe Island - where the depth of the sea is in the hundreds of feet.
Ongoing search and rescue efforts for Tello's recovery are being carried out by the Belize National Coast Guard. Roque Canul gave us an update on the search efforts:
Roque Canul, Deck Dept. Officer - BNCG
"Upon receiving information the coast guard deploy an asset to conduct search in the area both surface and sub-surface and ever since yesterday the search concluded until last night because we don't do searches at night especially when it comes to situation like this. Presently we have another boat conducting searches but we also have the asset from Calabash Caye who is also conducting surface searches. The incident happen approximately 4 nautical miles west of the turneffe atoll, we have been searching the entire area but considering the fact of wind and current, the search area by now is approximately 24 nautical miles from center of where the incident happen."
Andrea Polanco
"Search efforts are still ongoing, at what point will the efforts be call off?"
Roque Canul, Deck Dept. Officer - BNCG
"Presently we have a notice to all mariners to be on the lookout for this person and we will be conducting a 3 days searches after that it's going to be on the commandants' directive."
Officially, his case is being treated as a missing person.
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