BY CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN From New York Daily News

Two tourists were found dead aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship that left New Jersey for Puerto Rico.

The cruise company told the Daily News in a statement that two guests aboard the Anthem of the Seas had died on Tuesday and Wednesday during the first leg of its journey, from Bayonne to San Juan.

Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Dia identified the men as 62-year-old Joseph Ambrussi of New Jersey and William Forsytte, 55, of Pennsylvania.

The newspaper said that both men were with their wives, and Royal Caribbean said they died of natural causes.

An 8-year-old Maryland boy, Prince Adepoju, died from accidental drowning in July after being found unresponsive in Anthem of the Seas’s pool shortly after it left New York harbor.

The majority of cruise ship deaths, roughly 200 a year, are from age-related illnesses, according to a 2015 report in The Telegraph.

IMAGE: Two American tourists died as the Anthem of the Seas went from New Jersey to San Juan. (ANDER GILLENEA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

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