British woman miraculously saved ten hours after falling off cruise ship into Adriatic Sea

The Norwegian Star cruise ship was travelling from Dubrovnik, Croatia to Venice, Italy
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Tom Powell19 August 2018

A British woman has been miraculously saved from the Adriatic Sea more than 10 hours after she fell off a cruise ship.

Croatia’s coastguard said the woman fell from the Norwegian Star cruise ship just before midnight on Saturday while it was about 60 miles off the coast.

A rescue ship was scrambled and a desperate search continued through the night without any sign of the woman.

But ten hours later, on Sunday morning, she was found swimming in the sea not far from where she was believed to have fallen in.

The woman, who has not been identified, was taken to hospital in the town of Pula and is believed to be in a stable condition.

The ship's captain, Lovro Oreskovic, said that she was exhausted but added that "we were extremely happy for saving a human life."

The circumstances of the incident are being investigated and the British Embassy in Croatia has been informed.

It happened as the Norwegian Star was returning to Venice, Italy, from a week-long cruise around Greek islands. It had last docked at the Croatian city of Dubrovnik and was heading back to Italy.

The ship returned to Venice around five hours late on Sunday following the incident, according to Cruise Law News.

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