Thomas Gigler Jumps from Carnival Panorama Cruise Ship, Presumed Dead Thomas Gigler, 56, jumped from Carnival Panorama during a cruise with his family days before his 15th wedding anniversary. Search ongoing, but he is presumed dead. Thomas Gigler, a 56-year-old married father of three from Redlands, California, jumped to his death from the Carnival Panorama cruise ship on Saturday, six days into a vacation with his wife and children. The ship was sailing from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to Long Beach, California, when Gigler, a computer programmer, went overboard from the 11th deck. He is presumed dead, and the US and Mexican Coast Guards are continuing to search for him off the coast of Baja California. Search Efforts and TimelineGigler was traveling with his wife Michelle, 48, and their three sons, aged 13, 11, and nine. After Michelle realized her husband was missing on Saturday morning, she began a frantic search and asked cruise staff to page him. Announcements asking Gigler to come forward were made around 11am and repeated several times.Between 2pm and 3pm, the ship turned around to assist in the search. Passengers reported that Gigler's name was broadcast over the public address system for hours. At 3.30pm, passengers were ordered back to their rooms so staff could conduct a ship-wide search, going room-to-room and scanning IDs, but Gigler was not found.Carnival staff then reviewed security camera footage and confirmed that Gigler had jumped overboard. There was no sign of him in the surrounding ocean, so the ship continued its voyage. Passengers were eventually released from their rooms and the search was left to local authorities.Family Disputes Reports of Marital IssuesGigler and Michelle would have celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary on Wednesday, just four days after his death. The couple lived what seemed to be a happy life with their three sons in a three-bedroom home in Redlands, about 64 miles east of Los Angeles.A cruise passenger who claimed to have met Gigler at the ship's Alchemy Bar the night before his death said the missing man spoke of having marriage issues. But Gigler's sister Wendy Dowden rubbished this allegation, insisting that her brother and his wife were getting along quite well.Instead, she said his family believed he had some kind of psychotic break, despite having no history of mental illness. She said that something must have happened in his head and that he was not in his right mind to have done this. Gigler's family told the Daily Mail they were bewildered by his deadly dive and insisted he had no reason to kill himself.Carnival Statement and Passenger TributesCarnival said in a statement that a man jumped while the ship was sailing from Puerto Vallarta to Long Beach. When notified of a missing guest, the ship's team initiated search and investigation procedures, including reviewing CCTV footage and notifying both the US and Mexico Coast Guards. The Coast Guard said it did aerial searches of the area, and the Mexican Navy and nearby commercial vessels also looked for him.Shellshocked passengers assembled a tribute to Gigler with well-wishes for his family written on Carnival shopping bags. Alongside the tributes were dozens of duck figurines, which are often exchanged by passengers through Duck Mail boxes on their doors.Gigler spent his entire 24-year career with software firm Esri. He is not believed to have told anyone of his plans to jump, and why he did it remains a mystery. Carnival said Gigler's family was offered support.