Man goes overboard Wednesday night and rescued almost 24 hours later

[Charmonium]

Dramatic video shows Coast Guard rescuing man who went overboard on Carnival cruise

The man was last seen on board the ship on Wednesday night and was reported missing Thursday morning.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Captante]

Off the coast of Nantucket??

 

[skyking]

swing and a miss by Darwin. How do you manage to fall overboard on a cruise ship?

 

[Captante]

swing and a miss by Darwin. How do you manage to fall overboard on a cruise ship?

Apparent almost NOBODY "falls" off a cruise-ship... it's nearly always "jumping" instead.



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

 

[allisolm]

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.

 

[lxskllr]

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.

 

[Captante]

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:

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"

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's crazy, I'd be lucky to last 5 minutes, I can't just float like some people can, if I stop paddling I sink like a rock.

 

[jpiniero]

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.

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.

 

[Charmonium]

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.

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.

 

[IronWing]

You all didn’t learn the “dead man float” in swimming lessons? We had it drilled into our heads.

 

[sdifox]

You all didn’t learn the “dead man float” in swimming lessons? We had it drilled into our heads.

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Isn't that the first thing you learn?

 

[pcgeek11]

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:

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"

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...

 

[skyking]

yeah ^
The wave extends below the surface the same distance it is above the surface. She gets calm not too far down.

 

[purbeast0]

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,