The ship was en route to the Bahamas. 
 
 A 29-year-old man was killed Friday night when he fell aboard a ship heading from the Port of Palm Beach to Freeport in the Bahamas, authorities confirmed Monday. 
 
 The incident occurred at about 8 p.m. Friday aboard the Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line's 1,680-passenger Grand Classica, U.S. Coast Guard spokesman John Lally said. He said a boat from the Coast Guard's Lake Worth station traveled to the ship, then 13 miles east of the port, and then brought the man to shore. Local paramedics took him by ground to St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, where he was pronounced dead, Lally said. 
 
 He did not have the man's name, age or hometown. 
 
 Riviera Beach Fire-Rescue could not immediately provide any information about the incident. 
 
 Marcia Lehmann of Singer Island, who had been aboard with her husband, Robert, celebrating his 70th birthday, said Monday she was coming out of a show on the eighth deck when a "code blue" alert came over the intercom. 
 
 "I'm thinking someone had a heart attack," Marcia Lehmann said. She said she saw crowds around a stairway and looked down. 
 
 "All we could see was pools and pools of blood and (part of) a white sheet," she said. "He fell above us, so it had to have been either the 10th or 11th (deck)." 
 
 A spokesman for the cruise line would not provide any information except to say the Coast Guard evacuated a passenger "due to a medical emergency" and then continued to Grand Bahama Island, and to add that "our thoughts and prayers go out to the guest’s family at this time. We commend the crew and U.S. Coast Guard for their swift response." 
 
 The Grand Classica and its sister ship, the Grand Celebration, began operations in April. 
 
 Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line is the only provider of year-round two-night cruises and cruise and resort stays from the Port of Palm Beach to Grand Bahama Island. The company is projected to carry more than 500,000 passengers annually and be the largest contributor to tourism in Grand Bahama Island. 

 A Florida man was just months away from marrying the love of his life when he tragically fell to his death while aboard a cruise ship traveling to the Bahamas on Friday, the Associated Press reported. 
 
 Christopher McGrory, 29, was celebrating his bachelor party with friends on the Paradise Cruise Line’s Grand Classica ship at the time of his death, according to Palm Beach Post. His wedding was planned for December 1. 
 
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 U.S. Coast Guard spokesman John Lally told the outlet guardsmen received a call about an incident that occurred around 8 p.m. nearly 13 miles away. 
 
 Lally explained a boat from the Coast Guard’s Lake Worth station rushed to the ship and McGrory was transported to shore, Palm Beach Post reported. 
 
 McGrory fell on the ship onto a lower deck and did not fall overboard. He was then taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. 
 
 Passengers aboard the ship recall hearing a “code blue” alert after McGrory’s fall. “I’m thinking someone had a heart attack,” Marcia Lehmann, who was aboard the ship with her husband Robert, said to Palm Beach Post before adding she saw crowds of people gathered around a stairway. 
 
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 “All we could see was pools and pools of blood and [part of] a white sheet,” Lehman continued. “He fell above us, so it had to have been either the 10th or 11th [deck].” 
 
 The cruise line did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment, but a spokesman told Palm Beach Post the Coast Guard “evacuated a passenger due to a medical emergency.” The ship then continued to its destination. 
 
 “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the guest’s family at this time. We commend the crew and U.S. Coast Guard for their swift response,” the spokesman added. 
 
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 McGrory’s fiancée Jessica Arnett opened up about his sudden death on Facebook writing, “With a heavy, heavy broke heart, it kills me to write this as it all seems surreal but I should tell you all my sweet Chris was in a tragic accident and has passed away.” 
 
 For the last several years, McGrory worked as a collateral analyst at Wells Fargo in Fernandina Beach. He attended Florida State University as did his fiancée. 
 
 “I’m at a loss for words, that man was my true love and my best friend. Please keep us all in your prayers,” Arnett said. 

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 The 29-year-old man fell Friday night aboard a ship headed to the Bahamas from the Port of Palm Beach. 
 
 The man who died Friday night aboard a cruise ship was at a bachelor's party in advance of his Dec. 1 wedding, his fiancee's grandmother said Tuesday. 
 
 
 
 Christopher McGrory, 29, reportedly fell Friday night aboard the Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line’s 1,680-passenger Grand Classica, heading from the Port of Palm Beach to Freeport in the Bahamas. 
 
 The U.S. Coast Guard said a boat from its station in Riviera Beach traveled with a crew from Riviera Beach Fire-Rescue to the ship, then 13 miles east of the port, and brought the man to shore. Paramedics took him by ground to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, where he was pronounced dead. 
 
 
 
 Riviera Beach Fire-Rescue has not provided details about the incident. 
 
 
 
 McGrory, who grew up in Palm Beach County, met Jessica Arnett about four years ago in Tallahassee, where both were working after having graduated Florida State University, her grandmother, Jean Arnett, said Tuesday morning from Yulee. 
 
 
 
 In 2013, school records show, McGrory received a bachelor's degree in finance from FSU. 
 
 According to McGrory's page on the Linkedin professional database, he is an analyst for Wells Fargo and has worked there since the summer of 2015. In addition to his FSU degree, the page says he received an associate of arts in business administration from Palm Beach State College. 
 
 A manager at the Wells Fargo bank in Fernandina Beach said Tuesday she was not authorized to comment. 
 
 
 
 Jean Arnett said her family has for years lived on 50 acres in Yulee, a community northwest of Jacksonville. She said McGrory moved to the property soon after meeting Jessica and was working at a bank in nearby Fernandina Beach. The wedding was to be in Yulee. 
 
 
 
 Arnett said she heard only sketchy details about what happened on the ship but did say one of the members of the wedding party was McGrory's brother. 
 
 
 
 Jean Arnett said the last few days have not been easy for her granddaughter. 
 
 
 
 "How could it be?" she said. "He was the love of her life." 
 
 
 
 McGrory's father, Brian McGrory, said Tuesday he was not up to talking. 
 
 The Martin Funeral Home in Stuart said Tuesday that a visitation for McGrory was set for 6 to 8 p.m. today, with services set for 11 a.m. Wednesday. 
 
 
 
 The Coast Guard so far has not provided either McGrory's name or hometown and said it will not release information about what might have happened on the ship while its investigation is open. 
 
 The cruise line also has not identified McGrory or provided information about what happened but did express its "thoughts and prayers" for the man's family. 
 
 The Grand Classica and its sister ship, the Grand Celebration, began operations in April. 
 
 
 
 Staff researcher Melanie Mena contributed to this story.
– With less than two months to go until his wedding, Florida's Christopher McGrory boarded Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line's Grand Classica ship planning to celebrate his last days as a bachelor. But the party was short-lived, per the Palm Beach Post. In what his fiancee calls "a tragic accident," the 29-year-old groom-to-be fell from the ship heading from Palm Beach to Freeport in the Bahamas around 8pm Friday, landing on a lower deck. One passenger who recalled seeing "pools and pools of blood" said he fell from the 10th or 11th deck, per the Post. The US Coast Guard rushed from its Lake Worth station to the ship, 13 miles from port, and transported McGrory to shore. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the guest's family at this time," a spokesman for the cruise line says, per People. Meanwhile, McGrory's fiancee, Jessica Arnett, describes "a heavy, heavy broken heart" in a Facebook post. "I'm at a loss for words, that man was my true love and my best friend. Please keep us all in your prayers," she writes. Her grandmother tells the Post that the couple, both graduates of Florida State University, were much in love, having met four years ago in Tallahassee. Instead of the expected Dec. 1 wedding date in Yulee, McGrory's funeral is set for 11am Wednesday in Stuart. (Another bachelor party this month in Costa Rica ended with the deaths of four celebrants.)