Coast Guard Finds, Rescues Man Overboard

No reason has been given for how the man ended up in the water.

By Janie Campbell
|  Sunday, Nov 22, 2009  |  Updated 3:52 PM EDT
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Coast Guard Finds, Rescues Man Overboard

Cruise News Weekly

The Silver Shadow is a luxury cruise boat that sails the world.

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Perhaps he just wanted to live with Kurt Russell in a dilapidated house and build a putt-putt golf course.

Coast Guard and cruise authorities haven't said how or why 62-year-old Ron Shulman wound up overboard overnight in the Atlantic, but they do have good news: Shulman was spotted by searchers and has been rescued safely.

Coast Guard Sector Miami received a call about 3 a.m. this morning that Shulman had plunged from the Silversea line's Silver Shadow, a luxury boat on its last leg of a nine-day journey from Barbados and due to dock in Fort Lauderdale. Shortly after he was reported missing, the ship dropped a rescue boat and stalled its journey to remain in the area east of Miami where Shulman was assumed to have gone overboard. 

The Coast Guard quickly dispatched a helicopter and rescue vessel that was joined by a Miami-Dade fire boat. About 7:45 a.m., Schulman was spotted 20 miles from Government Cut, clinging to the cruise ship's rescue boat. The helicopter dropped a swimmer to assist, and both were picked up by a rescue vessel.

No word on whether or not anyone requested a revolving shoe closet.

Posted Nov 22, 2009
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