"Search halted for passenger who fell into Boston Harbor" by Colin A. Young | Globe Correspondent, July 28, 2013
Despite the efforts of several people to stop him, a man apparently tried to climb a railing on a harbor cruise and fell overboard, becoming the focus of an intense search that was called off late Sunday afternoon after more than 17 hours....
The 41-year-old man, who was aboard the Provincetown II with his girlfriend for a country music-themed cruise, was apparently “engaging in horseplay” around 10:30 p.m. before he fell off the rail, according to a statement from Bay State Cruise Co., which operates the boat.
A crew member running the deck’s DJ station turned the music off and called “man overboard” over the boat’s speaker system, said Michael Glasfeld, the company’s owner.
As soon as the ship’s crew hears a call for a man overboard, its members are trained to point at the person in the water so the captain and his crew can keep track of the location, he said.
“In this case, what was troublesome was that there was no one in the water to point at,” Glasfeld said. “When the gentleman went in the water he did not come back up to the surface.”
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The Provincetown II weekend music cruises are marketed on the company’s Facebook page as “the wildest, largest parties on the water,” but Glasfeld suggested alcohol may not have been a strong factor in Saturday’s incident....
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UPDATE: Body of reveler who fell overboard found
