Camera on ship mistaken for possible explosive
Almost 200 passengers, crew disembark without incident
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Passengers and crew members disembarked the Cornucopia Princess after a camera in a restroom caused a scare.
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- A party ship cruising around Manhattan on Thursday night was forced to dock after a crew member found wiring that he feared might be attached to an explosive device.
The device, found in a bathroom on the ship, turned out to be a videocamera, said police who boarded the vessel to investigate.
The Cornucopia Princess, which departed from Perth Amboy, New Jersey, was escorted by the U.S. Coast Guard and New York Police Harbor Patrol to the East River's Pier 4, at East 58th Street and 1st Avenue, where the 150 passengers and 46 crew members disembarked without incident, police said.
Cornucopia Cruise Line owner Mustafa Kilic said a crew member found a "plastic box with yellow and black wires" in a unisex bathroom at about 9 p.m. That crew member told Kilic, who told the captain, who called the Coast Guard.
A disc jockey who had been hired to work a private party on the cruise was questioned by police but not arrested. That man is not an employee of Cornucopia Cruise Line, Kilic said.
The scare came at a time of increased fear of terrorism across the country, especially in New York.
President Bush raised the national terror alert level this week to orange, or high, the second-highest level in the nation's color-coded threat system.
