Search ends for man who fell off Carnival cruise ship off Florida coast

While we don't know the details, let this be a cautionary tale. It could happen to anyone. RIP.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-carnival-cruise-ship-man-overboard-florida-20180523-story.html

Very sad! I live right outside Greensboro (where he's from) and I have a co-worker who's spouse grew up with him. They released the video to the family earlier today so they could see exactly what happened. I can't imagine the pain this family is going through.

Did he fall overboard or jump?

What video?

It's the ship's video from the camera that looks down the ship with a view of the balcony cabins. According to the video, he did not jump, but he did put himself in a bad situation.

It's the ship's video from the camera that looks down the ship with a view of the balcony cabins. According to the video, he did not jump, but he did put himself in a bad situation.

Where can I watch the video?

Was he drunk or fooling around?

Sounds like misadventure

Where can I watch the video?

 

Was he drunk or fooling around?

I'm not sure if they release this video to the public, but I'm assuming they don't. I only know that it was released to his family today.

I also don't know if he was drunk or not. They have not released many details yet.

Where can I watch the video?

 

 

 

Was he drunk or fooling around?

What morbid reason would you want to watch the video for?

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What morbid reason would you want to watch the video for?

 

 

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Good point

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Sounds like misadventure

To say the least. Sad.

Happens all the time. A shame.

Happens all the time. A shame.

“All the time”

Surely a slight exaggeration.

Well, Gut, I suppose it depends on one's definition of "all the time". Ten people so far in 2018. Meets the definition for me.

Well, Gut, I suppose it depends on one's definition of "all the time". Ten people so far in 2018. Meets the definition for me.

Wow, really? All accidental?

Very sad but people go to a cruise to get DRUNK and act stupid and put themselves in harms way.

It could happen to anyone.

Not really, it only happens to those who intentionally do it or those who make poor choices while cruising.

Gut, you would have to ask them.

Gut, you would have to ask them.

Ask who? What?

It is sad. But entirely preventable (unless you are murdered), so not something I think about all that much. Just terrible for the family. Can’t imagine what they are going through.

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It is sad. But entirely preventable (unless you are murdered), so not something I think about all that much. Just terrible for the family. Can’t imagine what they are going through.

 

 

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And not to sound selfish, but if I were a passenger on that ship, knowing that incident happened would be on my mind the remainder of the trip. It's the same as staying in a hotel and having someone in a room near you tragically die, except you can't check out in the morning and stay somewhere else. Awful situation for everyone. Hopefully the family is able to recover his remains and find closure.

And not to sound selfish, but if I were a passenger on that ship, knowing that incident happened would be on my mind the remainder of the trip. It's the same as staying in a hotel and having someone in a room near you tragically die, except you can't check out in the morning and stay somewhere else. Awful situation for everyone. Hopefully the family is able to recover his remains and find closure.

In November 1987 me & group of friends were in a NYC hotel for a holiday weekend tour. Our first night/wee hours of the morning, a European banker jumped from the roof of our hotel and landed on a car. I saw the car outside of the hotel next morning when we were going for breakfast. There was ... let's just say ... matter on the outside and inside of the smashed windshield.

What morbid reason would you want to watch the video for?

 

 

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For safety reasons, did he fall? Is there a defect with the ship?

Did he jump?

Was he pushed?

I just want to know what happened. I don’t drink, so I’m not worried about drunkenly doing something to fall overboard, but yet sometimes when looking out over the railing I get a mildly fearful feeling of somehow falling overboard. I don’t even see how someone could be pushed over. It seems like they would have to be somehow hoisted up and then over. Anyway so sad and tragic.

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While we don't know the details, let this be a cautionary tale. It could happen to anyone. RIP.

While very sad for the family and my heart goes out to them, this could not just "happen to anyone" on a cruise ship. I have seen a lot of foolishness on cruise ships in the last 18 years and it is the people themselves that create situations where they are in harms way. You do not just fall off a cruise ship incidentally, you jump or you are not making good decisions which can lead to a very bad outcome in some cases.

Very sad situation for the family.

However, it is next to impossible to "fall off" a cruise ship. I'm six feet tall, and the balcony railings come up above my waist. I like to cruise and I occasionally get a little tipsy, but I have never felt the urge to sit on the balcony railing, stand on the balcony railing, climb over the balcony railing, or try to fly from the balcony.

To "fall off" the ship, you have to be helped or be acting stupidly.