Two passengers on separate Carnival cruise ships died over the weekend after drowning incidents at Celebration Key, the company’s private resort in the Bahamas that opened in July. One was a 79-year-old male and the other a 74-year-old female, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a statement issued Saturday. Both were American.

Two American cruise passengers drowned at Carnival Cruise’s newly opened private island in the Bahamas - Celebration Key.

PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. — Bahamian authorities are investigating after two American cruise passengers died in separate drowning incidents Friday at Celebration Key, Carnival Cruise Line’s new private destination on the southern coast of Grand Bahama Island.