The Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) first received reports at around 5.30pm local time on Monday that the woman was found unresponsive in her cabin on the island of Grand Bahama.
Ladonna Batty, a family nurse practitioner from Arkansas, said Dongayla Dobson and Amber Shearer were crying and covered in bruises when she got to them.
Ladonna Batty, a family nurse practitioner from Arkansas, said it was the worst scene that I had ever had to work after she helped Amber Shearer and Dongayla Dobson back on board the Carnival Elation.
Dongayla Dobson and her childhood best friend Amber Shearer had taken a Carnival Cruise where they spent one day relaxing at the Pirates Cove Resort on Grand Bahama beach.