The sister of a Florida man who inexplicably disappeared while aboard a Carnival cruise ship says that it’s incomprehensible that he simply vanished without a trace.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, Army veteran Kevin McGrath, 26, was last seen early Monday morning aboard the Carnival cruise ship Conquest. He was supposed to meet his family that same morning for breakfast but never showed, and was not among the passengers that deboarded at the Miami Port.
“We know that at 3:30 in the morning, he used the key card to get back in the room and anytime between then and 7:30 in the morning when he was supposed to meet my family for breakfast is when he went missing,” Kevin’s sister, Danielle McGrath, told ABC 25.
McGrath was last seen wearing a black shirt, black shorts and grey shoes. Cameras aboard the ship reportedly did not show McGrath going overboard and did not show him getting off the ship with other passengers.
“The guest was not detected by surveillance systems, including U.S. Customs and Border Patrol during the debarkation process,” Carnival said in a statement.
The U.S. Coast Guard has continued to search the waters “near the Port of Miami and along the South Florida shore,” NBC News reports, but so far there has been no sign of McGrath, who was aboard the ship with his family to celebrate his father’s 60th birthday.
“The U.S. Coast Guard they have been amazing; they searched the water top to bottom, left to right, everything you can think of and they even came out to Port St. Lucie,” Danielle said.
Danielle is now hoping other passengers who may have possibly seen her that morning to say something.
“My brother didn’t just vanish,” she said. “Someone knows something. Someone’s seen something. I just want my brother home. My family wants my brother home. Just please, we need him home.”
Anyone with any information concerning McGrath’s whereabouts is urged to contact Miami-Dade police at 305-715-3300.
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[Feature Photo: Kevin McGrath/Miami-Dade police]
