{"id":9348,"date":"2011-06-10T09:03:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T13:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=9348"},"modified":"2011-06-10T09:03:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T13:03:30","slug":"body-matches-description-of-missing-cruise-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/06\/body-matches-description-of-missing-cruise-passenger","title":{"rendered":"Body Matches Description of Missing Cruise Passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamian authorities have found the body of a man fitting the  description of a Carnival cruise passenger who went missing during a jet  ski excursion last week.<\/p>\n<p>The body, which is partially decomposed, was found floating close to  shore in waters off West Bay Street on Tuesday. Police said they have  not yet identified the remains.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a statement released yesterday, the US Embassy in Nassau  said that the body generally matches the description of the missing US  citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Wells of Westchester, Ohio, was vacationing on the Carnival  cruise ship &#8220;Fascination&#8221; to celebrate his birthday with two friends  when he disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>After the ship docked in Nassau last Saturday, Mr Wells rented a jet ski  during an excursion to Cabbage Beach, Paradise Island, but did not  return to shore, according to his friends.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the US Embassy in Nassau released a statement regarding the body found by the Bahamian Defence Force&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamian authorities have found the body of a man fitting the description of a Carnival cruise passenger who went missing during a jet ski excursion last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[111,185,33],"class_list":["post-9348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-cruise","tag-jet-ski","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}