Samantha Broberg, 33, was reported missing from Carnival Liberty on Friday, approximately 200 miles southeast of Galveston. Surveillance video showed her going overboard from the 10th deck at about 2 a.m. Friday.
The Coast Guard's 8th District command center coordinated 20 hours of searching by alternating HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crews from Aviation Training Center Mobile, Alabama, and Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas. The crews saturated a 60 by 90 nautical mile area in the Gulf of Mexico, with a combined search area totaling more than 4,300 square miles.