A 20-year-old passenger who was traveling on one of the world’s biggest cruises with his family allegedly threw himself overboard on Thursday after being criticized by his father for being too drunk from his drinking party, reports said. witnesses.
“He was quite drunk (…) He told his father ‘I’ll sort this out right away’ and he jumped out of the window in front of all of us. It was just surreal,” passenger Bryan Sims told the New York Post on Thursday.
The vacation of a family, who was traveling aboard the Liberty of the seas of the Royal Caribbean company, would have turned into a nightmare around 4 a.m., when the young passenger would have thrown overboard of the 35th largest boat in cruise ship in the world, with a height of 18 floors.
The young adult had just finished his drunken evening and was preparing to return to the elevators when he came face to face with his brother and his father, who would have blamed him for his condition, according to Bryan Sims with whom he would have spent the evening.
It was then that, on the spur of the moment, he threw himself overboard of the ship, which was then sailing between Cuba and the Grand Inagua Island of the Bahamas, according to the American media.
“There was a lot of screaming, and the crew was alerted immediately. His family was horrified. Just beside themselves. I can’t even begin to imagine what they’re going through,” passenger Deborah Morrison, also a witness to the tragedy, told the NY Post.
The Royal Caribbean crew would have immediately “launched a search and rescue operation alongside the American Coast Guard, who took charge of the search,” the company said in a press release, but the body of the young man was not found. had still not been located Thursday evening.
Unfortunately, falls from a ship of this size, accidental or not, are often fatal, although most companies would have adopted safety measures and on-board monitoring systems in an effort to reduce the risk of death.
According to data from the Washington Post, 386 people fell from a Royal Caribbean ship between 2000 and 2020. It is not specified how many of them lost their lives.
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