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Man goes overboard Wednesday night and rescued almost 24 hours later

skyking said:
swing and a miss by Darwin. How do you manage to fall overboard on a cruise ship?
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Apparent almost NOBODY "falls" off a cruise-ship... it's nearly always "jumping" instead.

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Man Overboard on a Cruise Ship: What to Expect (CruiseCritic.com)

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When I was a kid I went on a cruise with my mother. I went out on deck during a storm, and a bit later thought better of it and went back inside. That ship was rocking and rolling, and going overboard wouldn't have been a difficult accomplishment.
 
My cabin steward on the last cruise I took was working on a "smaller" (564ft) cruise ship called the Sun Viking, one of the first Royal Caribbean ships when it got caught in a full-fledged hurricane @ sea.

This is the actual ship:

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He said that every single thing that wasn't bolted down in the cabins and passenger-areas was smashed to bits and even veteran crew members were sea-sick plus all the plumbing failed.

Apparently at the peak of the storm the ship was listing +/- 30 degrees and giant waves were breaking over the pool-deck.

His words: "I fully expected to die" 😳
 
allisolm said:
How does the average Joe manage to stay alive for almost 24 hrs in the water with no life preserver? My hat’s off to him. I’m sure I would have lasted a good 15 minutes - at the best.
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Guy knows how to swim... that's for sure. Got to give him credit for not giving up once it got a couple hours in.
 
allisolm said:
How does the average Joe manage to stay alive for almost 24 hrs in the water with no life preserver? My hat’s off to him. I’m sure I would have lasted a good 15 minutes - at the best.
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When I was a teen, I was incredibly skinny with almost no body fat. But I learned that I could stay afloat indefinitely just by holding my breath and floating on my back. In that position, I could easily breath AND stay afloat.

That trick saved my life on Sanibel Island in FL. I was swimming just off shore when I realized that I was caught in an undertow and I couldn't swim directly to the shore. But I remembered that there was a lagoon just a couple hundred feet away and figured that the undertow would have to stop in that area. So, floating on my back, I made my way to the lagoon and then thru there to the shore where my hysterical mom was waiting.

My only injury was that I tore of the nail on one of my pinky toes. So had to go to ER and get it cleaned up.
 
Captante said:
My cabin steward on the last cruise I took was working on a "smaller" (564ft) cruise ship called the Sun Viking, one of the first Royal Caribbean ships when it got caught in a full-fledged hurricane @ sea.

This is the actual ship:

sunviking3.jpg



He said that every single thing that wasn't bolted down in the cabins and passenger-areas was smashed to bits and even veteran crew members were sea-sick plus all the plumbing failed.

Apparently at the peak of the storm the ship was listing +/- 30 degrees and giant waves were breaking over the pool-deck.

His words: "I fully expected to die" 😳
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Anyone that hasn't witnessed a full on storm in the North Atlantic or a Hurricane / Cyclone at sea has no idea what rough seas are about. I saw both on Submarines and Surface Ships (Targets).

It is great to see shit, piss and water spewing out of a toilet on a surface craft and hitting the overhead when the sanitary tank check valves fail open and the ship rolls. LOL.

This is why I love my Submarines. We just go deeper and slowly drive away... 😉
 
When I got SCUBA certified I had to tread water for 10 minutes straight and I could barely do that and felt like I was going to die afterwards lol. And that was in a pool.

I can't imagine doing it for 24 hours in the middle of the ocean. That is super impressive that he survived that long,
 
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