Carnival Spirit and the GPS of a Trajedy

On days when the ship was at sea with no land in sight, we would turn on the television to the channel with the GPS of the route. Usually it looked like a child's drawing of a single arrow and nothing else, except the wind and ship's speeds.
The morning after our visit to Mystery island was different. In the early morning we kept hearing an announcement for a crew member to please report in. At the same time you could feel the ship slowing down. During the course of the morning there were 2 separate all-hands drills for crew members to congregate. Also, there was a request for the same missing crew memeber to "please report in. you won't be in trouble. Please let us know you are okay." By this time the ship had stopped.
Finally there was an announcement that a crew member had disappeared overboard  and that we were going back to look for him. The ship turned around and picked up speed again. The next morning, this is the GPS we saw on the TV - a record of the squares within squares that the ship made on its all night search for the missing crew member. Later that morning we were released by the local officials and set out again on the cruise route.
Everyone was hit very hard by this sad situation, but I have to praise the entire crew of the Carnival Spirit for their prompt reaction and the way that it was handled, especially with the 2100 passengers aboard. There was genuine concern for their missing crew member and his parents in India. There was constant communication with the passengers at every step  and yes, we missed a stop at Port Denaray, Fiji, but everyone understood the importance of going back. After all, it could have been any one of us who went overboard.
After that morning it was difficult to look at the child's scrawl of a GPS arrow without thinking of the lost crewman.