Passenger Overboard From HAL's Westerdam

A passenger from a Holland America Line (HAL) cruise ship has gone overboard in the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska, according to the National Parks Traveler nonprofit media organization. The Park Service issued a press release Saturday night that it had suspended its search for the missing passenger who reportedly disappeared from the HAL Westerdam cruise ship late Friday afternoon.  According to the press release, the sixty-nine year-old man was reported missing at 3:50 p.m. on Friday when he did not appear for a medical appointment on board the ship, a park release said. It is unclear when the passenger actually went overboard. KTUU reports that the man went overboard sometime on Friday morning.  The Park Service was notified 7:30 Friday evening after a ship-wide search confirmed that the passenger was missing from the cruise ship.  The Park Service and the U.S. Coast Guard conducted searches via vessels and/or aircraft. There is no…

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