Seabourne QuestA number of new sources are reporting that a woman went overboard from the Seabourn Quest this evening. The cruise ship had left Boston and was headed for Bar Harbor, Maine. 

The Glouster Times reports that a woman fell off the Seabourn cruise ship 10 miles off the Cape Ann coast tonight. The U.S. Coast Guard dispatched a 47-foot rescue vessel from Gloucester, a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station Cape Cod, and the 270-foot cutter Campbell from Portsmouth, N.H.

The Rockport Harbormasters found the woman’s body  about seven miles out around 8:30 p.m. tonight.

WHDH 7 says the women died.

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Update: The passenger has been identified as a 59 year old woman. The FBI has taken over the investigation.

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