Cruise ship fall was 'not suicide', Kristen Schroder's family says A couple who went overboard from a cruise ship off the NSW coast had been fighting before the incident. Kristen Schroder and Paul Rossington have been missing since last Wednesday night after fell overboard from a cruise ship. THE family of a missing woman who plunged off a cruise liner's deck and presumably died says she was not intoxicated and did not jump. Kristen Schroder, 27, and her paramedic boyfriend Paul Rossington, 30, have been missing since last Wednesday night after both went overboard. Ms Schroder's brother-in-law Sascha Percuoco described his family's pain over the tragic incident via a message posted on Facebook. "It has been upsetting to read the media reporting that Kristen jumped off the Carnival Spirit cruise ship willingly," he wrote. I want to make one thing absolutely clear ... neither of them had been drinking and I do not for one minute believe Kristen would take her own life. She was up on that railing (for reasons only her and Paul will know) when she lost her grip and slipped backwards. I believe Paul jumped in to save her without having a chance to think clearly and call for help. R.I.P. Beautiful Girl. CCTV footage from the Carnival Spirit captured the couple in the ship's casino on Wednesday night having a short but heated argument. That incident led them to skip dinner with Ms Schroder's family, who were also on holiday. About 8.50 that night, CCTV captured the pair going overboard from mid-deck of the ship into the Tasman Sea, one immediately after the other, off the NSW mid-north coast. with Clementine Cuneo, Neil Keene and AAP