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Cruise ship crew member goes overboard and is found 22 hrs later...
Posted on 7/1/18 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 7/1/18 at 4:54 pm
Unbelievable someone can stay afloat this long. Talk about the will to live.
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A cruise ship crew member who had gone overboard on Saturday (June 30) was found nearly a day later by another cruise ship near Cuba, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. A 33-year-old crew member aboard Norwegian Cruise Line's Getaway was seen going overboard 28 miles northwest of Pinar del Rio on Cuba's western side, the Coast Guard said. A Coast Guard search for the crew member began about 10 minutes later, eventually covering 1,630 square miles, to no avail. But the following day -- about 22 hours after the crew member was seen going overboard -- the missing crew member was seen in the water by someone on the Carnival Glory about 21 miles north of Cuba. The Miami Herald reported a steward saw the crew member.
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Posted on 7/1/18 at 4:56 pm to CapperVin
He had to be hanging on to something, right? Or a life vest? 22 hours is a long time.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 4:57 pm to SelaTiger
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He had to be hanging on to something, right? Or a life vest? 22 hours is a long time.
Never underestimate those Filipino baws.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 5:03 pm to Centinel
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Never underestimate those Filipino baws.
Not to derail the thread, but Im waiting on new about that Thai soccer team in a cave for a week now.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 5:07 pm to SelaTiger
How long before hypothermia sets in with those water temps? I realize the water is warm but hypothermia will eventually set in.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 5:11 pm to Centinel
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Never underestimate those Filipino baws.
Probably swam to Cuba, had drinks and a whore, smoked a hand rolled cig, and paid someone with a boat to go drop him in front of the next ship
Posted on 7/1/18 at 5:12 pm to SelaTiger
I don’t know if this guy had s life vest but people float in water with high salinity
Posted on 7/1/18 at 5:15 pm to Brazos
It’s the middle of the summer in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Hypothermia isn’t this guys problem. Exposure, being in the sun all day with no drinkable water, is his problem. Coupled with the exertion or staying afloat for 24 hours. We had to tread water for 45 mins - 1 Hour while fully clothed in Water Survival School and that was all I had in me as a very fit young guy. Can’t imagine it now. There are techniques to help stay afloat long term in a survival situation, I wonder if these guys receive that type of training.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 5:19 pm to CapperVin
If he was seen going overboard, why did he have to wait 22 hours to be picked up by another cruise ship?
Posted on 7/1/18 at 5:20 pm to CapperVin
In '00 while living in Satellite beach, my cousin got me to go on a cruise ship you could gamble on, when it hit international waters, cruised out of Port Canaveral.
Some drunk was acting a fool, and as security and boat employees had him cornered, he gave them the bird, told them to frick off, then jumped over board. I was right there watching the shite go down.
They put a light on him as he was in the water and he was still flipping them off. I was sea sick from drinking 2 much before going on the boat, so i laid back down.
Heard later that Coast Guard got him, he tried to fight them, till they finally were able to get his arse in their boat and cuffed.
I believe you can be arrested for jumping over board, or so i was told.
Some drunk was acting a fool, and as security and boat employees had him cornered, he gave them the bird, told them to frick off, then jumped over board. I was right there watching the shite go down.
They put a light on him as he was in the water and he was still flipping them off. I was sea sick from drinking 2 much before going on the boat, so i laid back down.
Heard later that Coast Guard got him, he tried to fight them, till they finally were able to get his arse in their boat and cuffed.
I believe you can be arrested for jumping over board, or so i was told.
This post was edited on 7/1/18 at 5:23 pm
Posted on 7/1/18 at 6:25 pm to CapperVin
If you are fat floating is easy
Posted on 7/1/18 at 7:06 pm to EA6B
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Maybe he had basic water survival training and knew how to use his pants or other clothing item as a flotation device.
Learned this as a kid. If you don't know it, you should learn it.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 7:07 pm to CapperVin
I'd take my own life before having to tread water all night lost at sea.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 7:17 pm to SeeeeK
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They put a light on him as he was in the water and he was still flipping them off.
frick you, maaa (glug, glug, glug)...
This post was edited on 7/1/18 at 7:19 pm
Posted on 7/1/18 at 7:18 pm to NotoriousFSU
Back before the web, there was a long line boat fishing south of Pensacola. The crew was in the cabin and he was cleaning up the deck after they had put there lines back out. He stuck a 5 gallon bucket over the side to get some water to clean the deck and it pulled him right over. Seems like it was 13 hours before he was found. That’s gotta be a lonely feeling out in the Gulf and watching your boat sail away.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 7:24 pm to SelaTiger
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He had to be hanging on to something, right? Or a life vest? 22 hours is a long time
well since he was "seen" falling overboard, i would assume "someone" tossed a flotation device over for him to grab onto. if not, several people need a serious arse whipping
Posted on 7/1/18 at 7:27 pm to CapperVin
Kinda ironic when you fall off a ship named “Getaway” and you get to watch it do just that to you from the water.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 7:52 pm to CapperVin
unbelieveably lucky...the chances of someone floating in the ocean being seen by someone on another passing cruise ship are almost zero.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 7:58 pm to CapperVin
He's very lucky he was found at all. Most are not, and death due to exposure in the ocean is a terrible way to go.
I remember watching an episode of "I Shouldn't Be Alive" where a group of several people set sail and their boat was sunk in a storm and they crowded aboard a single life raft. It didn't take long for me to realize they were interviewing the same two survivors over and over, the rest had died one by one over something like eight days before a ship found them. The last one to die jumped in the water so the sharks would get him and end it - and they did.
I remember watching an episode of "I Shouldn't Be Alive" where a group of several people set sail and their boat was sunk in a storm and they crowded aboard a single life raft. It didn't take long for me to realize they were interviewing the same two survivors over and over, the rest had died one by one over something like eight days before a ship found them. The last one to die jumped in the water so the sharks would get him and end it - and they did.
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