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Three missing off of San Diego - Ensenada coast
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2933218
December 6, 2004
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The Coast Guard searched Sunday for a cruise ship passenger believed to have fallen overboard and two fishermen who also were
missing.
The cruise ship passenger -- a 37-year-old woman whose name was not released -- is believed to have fallen into the Pacific Ocean about 30 miles west
of Ensenada, Mexico, said Petty Officer Robert Lanier, a Coast Guard spokesman.
The Coast Guard received a call from Carnival Corp.'s Carnival Pride ship at 1 a.m. Sunday, three hours after the woman failed to report for dinner,
Lanier said. No one saw her fall overboard.
The ship -- which runs a 7-day cruise along Mexico's Pacific coast -- docked Sunday in Long Beach.
The Coast Guard also was searching for two fishermen who sent a distress call in the rain Sunday about 30 miles southwest of San Diego, Lanier said.
Rescuers found debris of what appeared to be a 40- to 45-foot wooden fishing vessel.
The identities of the two men were not released, pending notification of family.
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Woman Missing From Carnival Cruise Ship
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/3972785/detail.html
December 5, 2004
SAN DIEGO -- The U.S. Coast Guard searched Sunday for a woman who may have fallen overboard from a Carnival cruise ship off the coast of Ensenada, a
Coast Guard petty officer said.
The 37-year-old woman was reported missing from the Carnival Pride about 1 a.m., Petty Officer 1st Class Stuart Eubank said.
At 10 p.m. Saturday night, the woman wasn't in the dining hall or her cabin, Petty Officer 1st Class Robert Lanier said.
Someone told authorties they saw the woman near the ship's rail. A short time later, her purse was found near the rail but there was no sign of the
woman, Eubank said.
The FBI is looking into whether she may have fallen, jumped or met with foul play.
The ship was searched but the woman was not found, he said.
An 830-mile area search was also covered by Coast Guard and U.S. Navy ship, plane and helicopter crews in a grid formation for hours, Lanier said.
Eventually, the helicopter and ship crews suspended the search, but a C-130 aircraft crew continued looking for the woman, Lanier said.
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20041206-9999-1m6sh...
December 6, 2004
The search continues for two men lost at sea off Point Loma, but rescue efforts were abandoned late yesterday afternoon for a cruise ship passenger
who may have fallen overboard off Ensenada.
An emergency call went out around 11 a.m. yesterday southwest of Point Loma from what the U.S. Coast Guard identified as the fishing boat Gina Lisa.
Coast Guard officials said their helicopter searching for the source of a beacon spotted a life raft and boat debris. The search continued into the
night and would resume this morning.
A second Coast Guard search and rescue effort was conducted yesterday 30 miles west of Ensenada for a 37-year-old woman who may have fallen overboard.
After the woman did not appear for a 10 p.m. event on the ship, the Carnival Pride, the crew searched the ship and then called the Coast Guard. A
rescue helicopter searched around the ship but did not find the woman. That search was canceled at 5:45 p.m.
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Woman missing from L.B.-bound cruise ship
http://www.presstelegram.com/Stories/0,1413,204~21474~257899...
Coast Guard looks for 16 hours in area where she may have fallen overboard.
By David Rogers
The Coast Guard called off its search Sunday afternoon for a Long Beach-bound cruise ship passenger suspected of falling overboard into Mexican waters
the night before, an official said.
The 37-year-old woman, whose identity was not released, was sailing back to Long Beach on the last night of a one-week Mexican Riviera cruise aboard
the Carnival cruise ship Pride when she was last seen shortly before a 10 p.m. gathering Saturday, said Coast Guard spokesman Robert K. Lanier in San
Diego. She missed the gathering, and crew members grew concerned when her bag was found near a ship railing, he said.
But the agency called off its 16-hour search at about 5:45 p.m. Sunday after Coast Guard and Navy rescuers were unable to find her in the waters 30
miles west of the Baja California city of Ensenada, Coast Guard spokesman Michael Collins said.
The crew searched the entire ship, including all of the passenger cabins, before declaring her missing, said passenger Sue Anne Rietman of Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Rietman said she accidentally hit the woman with a bathroom door earlier in the cruise, but her fellow passenger was able to laugh at the situation.
"She was really happy, and was having a good time (during the cruise)," Rietman said. "She was bubbly and smiling."
Carnival Cruise Lines did not respond to requests for comment.
Lanier said the ship's crew called the Coast Guard Sunday at 1 a.m. A Coast Guard helicopter was sent at about 1:45 a.m. to the area where the woman
was suspected of falling from a railing, and a Coast Guard C-130 plane, a Navy helicopter and the Navy vessel USS Ingraham were sent shortly
afterward, he said.
Search crews traveled more than 830 miles to saturate the area where the woman's body may have drifted, Lanier said.
"We have no reason to believe (she's dead) right now," he said. "Another possibility is that she could still be on the ship. We're looking to cover
all of our bases from the water side as well as the ship side."
"We're not going to presume anything at this point," said FBI spokeswoman Cathy Viray, whose agency was leading the investigation. The FBI
investigates incidents involving citizens on ships entering or leaving U.S. ports, she said.
Passengers said the vessel left Long Beach on Nov. 28 and stopped in the Mexican cities of Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas before heading
back to Long Beach for its scheduled Sunday morning arrival.
But their return would have to wait. After the unsuccessful search aboard the vessel, the ship returned to the waters where she was suspected to have
fallen overboard, passengers said. The Pride was scheduled to arrive in Long Beach Sunday morning, but was several hours late.
Separately, the Coast Guard was also searching for two fishermen who sent a distress call at 11 a.m. in the rain, about 30 miles southwest of San
Diego, Lanier said. Rescuers found debris of what appeared to be a 40-to 45-foot wooden fishing vessel.
The identities of the two men were not released, pending notification of family.
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FBI Investigates Case of Woman Lost at Sea
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SAN DIEGO ? An FBI investigation was under way today into the disappearance of a 37-year-old woman presumed to have gone overboard from a Carnival
cruise ship 30 miles west of Ensenada, Mexico.
The woman was reported missing from the Carnival Pride about 1 a.m. yesterday, said Petty Officer 1st Class Stuart Eubank of the U.S. Coast Guard in
San Diego.
Crews suspended the search at 10 p.m. yesterday, Coast Guard officials said today.
The FBI is looking into whether she may have fallen, jumped or met with foul play, Coast Guard officials said.
The woman's identity was withheld until her family could be notified.
At 10 p.m. Saturday, the woman failed to show up for a scheduled meal in the dining hall and she wasn't in her cabin, Petty Officer 1st Class Robert
Lanier of the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Someone reported seeing the woman near the ship's rail. A short time later, her purse was found near the rail but the woman was gone, Eubank said.
The ship was searched but the woman was not found, he said.
At 2 a.m., passengers were awakened as the crew conducted a room-by-room search for the woman, and the ship backtracked for three hours to the
location where she was last seen, authorities said.
Coast Guard and U.S. Navy ship, plane and helicopter crews searched in a grid formation for hours, Lanier said.
"The resources searched over 830 nautical miles and the victim remains unlocated," said Sean Mahoney of the Coast Guard.
Eventually, the helicopter and ship crews stopped searching, but a C-130 aircraft crew continued looking for the woman, Lanier said.
The ship finally docked in Long Beach Harbor yesterday afternoon, six hours after it was scheduled to arrive.
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Search ends for missing SoCal fishing boat
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7th December, 2004
The search for a missing fishing boat off the California coast ended Monday with no sign of the vessel's two crewmen.
The Coast Guard in San Diego said the Gina Lisa was considered missing after a signal from its emergency locator beacon was picked up Sunday morning.
A Navy destroyer joined Coast Guard aircraft and vessels in souring 270 square miles centered about 30 miles off Point Loma.
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Missing Fisherman's Family Looking For Answers
http://www.10news.com/news/3979812/detail.html
Romani's Father Speaks Out About Missing Son
December 7, 2004
SAN DIEGO -- The father of a Point Loma fisherman is looking for answers after his son and another man went missing from sea Sunday morning. The men,
45-year-old Vito Romani and Marcos Antonio Alvarez, from Ensenada, are presumed dead, 10News reported.
Louis Romani, the father of Vito Romani, and his family sifted through photographs of the missing fisherman. The entire family is still in disbelief
that Vito Romani is gone.
Louis Romani said, "(The Coast Guard) gave it one heck of a search. They searched with airplanes, choppers and with boats."
The search was called off Monday morning.
Vito Romani and Alvarez were aboard a 42-foot fishing boat, the Gina Lisa, when something terrible happened.
"He had 20 minutes more to pick up a net and he was gone. He was coming home," Louis Romani said.
Vick Romani was last heard from at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday morning. A half hour later the Coast Guard responded to a notification from the boat's
emergency radio beacon but there was no sign of the crew or the Gina Lisa. The Coast Guard only found an oil slick and a life raft.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Robert K. Lanier said, "There was some debris recovered. It will be examined by our Coast Guard Investigative Division."
Louis Romani believes his son's boat was hit by a larger ship moving through the area.
"I just hope they find out who did it. Why weren't they looking?" Louis Romani said.
In terms of what may have happened to the Gina Lisa, Coast Guard investigators say nothing has been ruled out. If necessary, the search will be
resumed.
For now, the Romani family is grieving.
"There's no hope. Too many hours have passed -- it's been two days now," Louis Romani said.
The Coast Guard searched a 270-square-mile area 35 miles southwest of Point Loma.
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Husband of missing Wisconsin woman frustrated by lack of answers
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/120704_ap_ns_cruise.html
December 7, 2004
(Waukesha, Wis.) ? The husband of the Waukesha woman missing from a cruise ship near Mexico is frustrated by the lack of answers about her
disappearance.
John Mizener says his 37-year-old wife, Annette, was on a Carnival Pride cruise with their daughter.
Federal authorities say the woman's purse was found near the railing of the ship late Saturday night. It's unclear how she may have fallen from the
ship.
Helicopters and boats were called to search the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Ensenada, Mexico. That search was called of Sunday night.
Mr. Mizener says the F-B-I is expected to be in Waukesha today. The agency is leading the investigation.
The couple own Ideal Health and Bioessentials and had recently adopted two children.
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http://www.presstelegram.com/Stories/0,1413,204~21474~258286...
By Kristopher Hanson and David Rogers
Staff writers
Federal investigators have not ruled out foul play to explain the disappearance of a 37-year-old Wisconsin woman who went missing during a cruise from
Long Beach to Mexico over the weekend, officials said Tuesday.
Annette Mizener was last seen at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday aboard the Carnival Pride sruice ship as it made its way north along the Mexican coast near
Ensenada.
She was reported missing after failing to show up for a 10 p.m. dinner with her 17-year-old daughter and parents, who accompanied Mizener on the
weeklong cruise.
FBI officials, who are investigating the case, said they were looking into numerous possibilities to explain Mizener's disappearance, including that
she accidentally fell overboard, was pushed or jumped.
"We're not ruling out foul play and we're not ruling out any possibilities at this particular juncture in the investigation," said FBI spokeswoman
Cathy Viray. "It's open."
John Mizener, Annette's husband, described his wife as a "very sweet lady" and said the couple had recently launched a small business, Ideal Health
and Bio-essentials, in an interview with a Milwaukee-area newspaper, the Waukesha Freeman.
A full-scale search was launched after Carnival crews found Mizener's purse about 11 p.m. Saturday near a roughly 3-foot railing on one of the ship's
lower decks.
Navy and Coast Guard crews searched about 130 square miles of ocean Saturday and Sunday, but failed to turn up any sign of the woman, who has two
children from a previous marriage, 19-year-old Robbie and 17-year-old Danielle.
Carnival officials haven't released any details about the investigation, but some passengers said that a section of the third deck had been secured
after her purse was found there.
John Mizener said his family was bracing for the worst.
"She's just a very sweet lady," Mizener told the Waukesha Freeman. "I just wish she was knocked out before she got knocked over."
He also said he hoped she hadn't suffered.
"We're a hell of a team, man," Mizener said. "I just want her to not have been tortured or suffer."
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I wonder how much life insurance she had???
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Debris from missing fishing boat found
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20041210-9999-7m10l...
Search for 2 men aboard is called off
By Joe Hughes
December 10, 2004
A 270-square-mile search off the coast for the 46-foot San Diego-based fishing boat Gina Lisa with two crew members on board has been called off after
debris from the vessel and an empty life raft were found 26 miles southwest of Point Loma.
The disappearance remained a mystery.
Missing are the boat's captain, Vito Romani, 46, a third-generation fisherman, San Diego native and former Point Loma resident, and Marcos Antonio
Alvarez, 52, of Ensenada.
Friends and relatives believe the Gina Lisa was quickly struck by a larger vessel because it sank so fast and left little in the way of debris. The
Coast Guard is investigating.
Romani was bringing a catch of swordfish to San Diego about 8 a.m. Sunday when the boat's emergency radio beacon suddenly began transmitting,
according to the Coast Guard.
Conditions were poor, with rain and low clouds.
Coast Guard Cmdr. Sean Mahoney said rescuers were in the area on another call and on the scene within 40 minutes, but found no survivors.
An oar, a large square of drywall material from the vessel, an empty life raft and an oil slick were spotted in searches through the night Sunday and
into Monday.
Late Wednesday, a buoy and portion of a fishing net from the Gina Lisa also were found in an area where the boat was last seen.
As of yesterday, no bodies had been recovered.
The search began Sunday when the Coast Guard launched an HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and dispatched the cutter Haddock to search an area south of Point
Loma. A Coast Guard C-130 airplane from Sacramento and the Navy frigate Ingraham also joined the search, Mahoney said.
Romani was a commercial fisherman in San Diego for more than 20 years, following in his father's footsteps.
"I was taking him out fishing for tuna with me when he was 11 years old," said his father, Louis Romani, 66, a lifelong fisherman who now lives in
Palm Springs.
"He was a good kid. If he had three cents, he'd give you five. Everybody loved him."
In recent years, Vito Romani and other fishermen found the going tough. The tuna industry was once a bright spot in San Diego's economy, at its peak
including 150 boats, six canneries and shipyards. The fleet has long since departed for foreign ports, battered by low-wage competition.
The memory of those fishermen is saluted at the Tunamen's Memorial on Shelter Island, where flowers were being placed to honor Romani and Alvarez.
Louis Romani said he believed his son's boat was run over by a freighter, based on the debris field.
He said a fishing boat had been in contact with the Gina Lisa 20 minutes before its emergency radio beacon sounded and reported that all was well on
board and that the boat was en route to San Diego with 10 swordfish after a successful four-day trip in Mexican waters.
Maritime officials were tracing movements of other vessels in the area at the time. Divers have been sent to some Southern California ports where
freighters dock to check the hulls underwater for damage, Louis Romani said.
"Nobody knows what happened," said Petty Officer Michael Collins. "It's hard to say. I'd rather not speculate."
Vito Romani's brother-in-law, Nick Bernardini, said Romani graduated from Point Loma High School and lived in Point Loma until recently moving to Palm
Springs to be with his father.
"We don't hold out much hope for anyone to be found alive," Bernardini said. "The water was too cold and it has been too long."
Bernardini, a former fisherman who lives in Little Italy, is familiar with the freighter lanes off the coast.
"That's where the Gina Lisa was when whatever happened happened," he said.
Bernardini said the size of the oil slick indicates the boat's fuel tanks ruptured after being struck, an indication of something big hitting the
boat. Freighters are 800 to 900 feet long.
Otherwise, he believes only an on-board explosion or a perfect storm could have caused the disappearance. There was no evidence of either.
Some answers could come after the recovered netting is examined to see if it has been cut by a ship's propeller.
Meanwhile, services were being planned.
Gina Bernardini, Vito Romani's sister, said she will remember her brother for his ever-smiling face.
"He would light up a room," she said.
Survivors also include a son, Vito Romani Drucker of Poway.
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Parents of missing woman believe foul play involved
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politi...
Associated Press
SUMMIT, Wis. - The parents of a woman who disappeared from a cruise ship off the coast of Mexico said federal agents were investigating certain
people.
"There is an assumption that there was foul play," Wally Knerler said Saturday of his missing daughter, Annette Mizener, after her memorial service.
"I do believe there are persons of suspicion that they are looking into."
Family members wouldn't say who might be under review or possible motives. FBI agents are investigating and have come to no conclusions, said Cathy
Viray of the FBI's Los Angeles office. She said Saturday that she could not confirm the family's comments. A message left by The Associated Press
Sunday was not immediately returned.
A security camera was tampered with near a ship railing on the third passenger deck where his daughter's purse was found Dec. 4, Knerler said. He also
said the purse was damaged.
FBI agents saw footage of Mizener on the deck, Knerler said. He did not know what time that was.
Mizener, 37, was last seen about 9:15 p.m. that Saturday night after she had dinner and sang karaoke with her parents and 17-year-old daughter, who
accompanied her on the weeklong cruise in Mexico.
Her purse was found about 11 p.m. on a smoking deck, Knerler said, a place his daughter typically would have avoided.
After crew members searched the entire Carnival Cruise Lines ship - including all passenger quarters, the kitchen and boiler room - the Coast Guard
and U.S. Navy searched 800 square miles of ocean off of Ensenada, Mexico, Knerler said.
Mizener's brother, Peter Knerler, said that the family received comfort from the memorial service attended by about 300 people Saturday at Abundant
Life Apostolic Church in Summit.
There was a closed casket, but relatives said they won't be able to put the loss behind them until her body is found.
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