Carnival cruise ship passenger falls overboard, found alive hours later

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• Carnival passenger James Grimes reveals how he survived 20 hours overboard
• Brisbane man missing after falling overboard from Quantum of the Seas cruise ship near Hawaii, US Coast Guard confirms
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• Coast Guard searching for man who fell overboard from Carnival cruise ship near Florida
• Man jumps from Carnival Cruise Line ship 55 miles off Florida coast
• Man missing after falling overboard on Carnival cruise ship near Florida
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A Carnival cruise ship passenger fell overboard into the Gulf of Mexico and was found alive against all odds on Thanksgiving Day — more than 15 hours after vanishing, officials said Friday. The cruise ship was released by the Coast Guard from search and rescue efforts and will continue its way to Norfolk, Virginia, where it's scheduled to arrive Tuesday. The US Coast Guard said it will resume its search at first light on Friday morning local time, for a Brisbane man who went overboard from a cruise ship off Hawaii on Wednesday night. The father of the 20-year-old passenger who jumped off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship last Thursday in a reportedly drunken, impulsive leap believes his son is still alive nearly a week later. At least 10 other people have fallen overboard from cruise ships this year, Business Insider previously reported.

Carnival passenger James Grimes reveals how he survived 20 hours overboard

"We've been told the coast guard and helicopters are still out searching in the ocean, in the area where the man went." "We saw about five life rings that were floating in the ocean and there were search vessels and lots of lights on the water. Francel told the Daily Sun that he threw six life rings off the ship in hopes of saving his son before the massive vessel was able to come to a stop about 20 minutes later.

Brisbane man missing after falling overboard from Quantum of the Seas cruise ship near Hawaii, US Coast Guard confirms

“When it started getting back towards nighttime again, the water started getting colder, [and] at that time I thought, you know, how much longer am I going to have to be out here? "This was Ronnie’s first cruise and thankfully he had a great time and made plenty of friends. He is our social butterfly that was always on the move and loved to make friends with everyone," she added. "I never could of imagine[d] something like this could happen. Devastated to say the least." "The Carnival Care Team is supporting the guest's family. Mardi Gras," said Carnival spokesman Matt Lupoli. Peale, from New Hope, Virginia, was on his first cruise and was celebrating Blosser's birthday with her family, Linda Peale said.

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Despite desperate search efforts involving beacons, buoys and rescue crafts, crews were unable to find any sight of him. At least 406 people on major cruise lines and ferries have gone overboard between 2000 and 2024, according to data collected by retired professor and cruise industry researcher Ross Klein. Meanwhile, Carnival Cruise Line said its Care Team “is supporting the missing guest's family on board” the ship, which "arrived today to Montego Bay, Jamaica as planned."

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Rukavina said crew were “frantically” trying to get the lights on the lifeboats to work. “We went onto our balcony and saw the searchlights and were sort of sitting there praying and hoping he’d be found,” one woman said. Huge swells overnight made conditions “near impossible” to find Tollemache, the coast guard said. With the combination of the 16-storey fall, exhaustion, dehydration and hyperthermia, “the chances of survival are very, very small”, survival expert and physiologist professor Michael Tipton told 7NEWS. The Honolulu Command Centre has confirmed that the person missing is an Australian man, but provided no further details. "The staff were all out on safety posts, there was not a space or inch on the boat where there wasn't a staff member shining a torch in the water."

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"The next thing I know... I regained consciousness. I was in the water with no boat in sight," he said. His rescuers believe he was moments away from perishing in the water given the hypothermia, shock and dehydration he was suffering from. As he was treading the choppy waters during his nearly 20-hour ordeal, Grimes recalled being approached by a huge creature he initially thought was a shark. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "It just hurts too much to even type, let alone talk about it," fiancée Jennilyn Michelle Blosser told WTKR.

Man missing after falling overboard on Carnival cruise ship near Florida

FORT LAUDERDALE — A search is underway for a cruise ship crewmember who went overboard while the vessel was still at sea before docking in South Florida this weekend. As of Tuesday afternoon, the Coast Guard said it had searched 4,044 square miles over 19 hours, adding that it will continue the search with air assets. A 41-year-old man fell overboard while aboard Royal Caribbean's Vision of the Seas cruise ship, which was headed to the Bahamas. The passenger — who was showing signs of hypothermia, shock and dehydration — told rescuers he wasn’t sure how he’d fallen overboard but confirmed he’d been on the cruise ship.

The US Coast Guard called off its search for the North Port man a day earlier. The Coast Guard has since narrowed its search area roughly 30 miles southwest of the Southwest Pass. "I just want answers, and I'm holding out for hope," Barnett's grandmother Dirlean Tate Mason told NBC News in a story published on Tuesday. BSO's Homicide and Crime Scene units have responded to Port Everglades to investigate, while the U.S.

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He said Levion is a skilled diver who works on a commercial fishing boat, and he is demanding to know how his underage son was given alcohol on the four-day cruise to Cuba and the Bahamas’ Grand Inagua Island. But Francel, who runs an AC business in Port Charlotte, told the local newspaper that he wasn’t arguing with Levion and that his son wasn’t trying to take his own life. I believe he is alive,” Francel Parker said to the local Florida paper Wednesday. “He can be seen climbing on a lifeboat and jumping from there,” the spokesperson said. Hunter has previously produced digital content for local and national outlets, covering several topics from breaking news and current events to politics and pop culture. "All of us at Holland America Line are deeply saddened by this incident and our thoughts and prayers are with the team member's family at this difficult time," the cruise line shared in a statement with CBS News Miami.

"He loved the cruise life being able to drink, gamble, and socialize put him in his happy place. This was his first cruise and I’m sure he would have been willing to do one monthly." "Out of privacy for the guest and their family, we have no additional details to share," they added. According to the US Coast Guard, the ship was 127 miles east of Charleston, South Carolina, when the incident occurred.

Francel Parker, dad of missing Levion Parker, told the Daily Sun that he believes his child — whom he called a master diver — is still alive in the waters off the Bahamas. Authorities say the man who recently disappeared from a Carnival cruise ship appeared to have jumped overboard. In a post on X, the Coast Guard said it suspended its efforts on Monday, after an eight-hour search that covered more than 1,625 square miles.

In front of his helpless dad and younger brother after getting into an argument with his father, witnesses previously told The Post. "We have informed the U.S. Coast Guard and are providing assistance to the guest’s family that was traveling with him," they added. The ship has the capacity to carry 2,500 passengers, and features a rock-climbing wall, outdoor movie screen, and swimming pools. According to CruiseMapper, which tracks the locations of thousands of cruises around the world, the Vision of the Seas ship is currently traveling around the Bahamas. “He realistically could have been in the water for 15-plus hours before we were able to successfully rescue him,” Gross said. The ship departed Baltimore on Friday and made its first stop in Orlando on Sunday, arriving in the Bimini Islands on Christmas Day, according to the cruise itinerary.

"There were a lot of announcements, telling us that the ship was being turned around, most people could feel the ship had changed course, it was a bit bumpy in the water. "To be real, for me personally it was very surreal and quite sad. It was quite confronting, we were all out trying to spot anything to help the staff. "They requested all guests return to their cabins and account for all their members and if someone was missing, to call 911 on our emergency systems here if we were missing a passenger. “There was a lot of yelling, and the crew was alerted immediately,” Deborah Morrison told The Post. Bryan Sims told The Post that he was hanging out with Levion and his 18-year-old brother, Seth, in the hotel tub of the ship in the early hours of April 4 before they went their separate ways. The younger Parker allegedly jumped off the 18-story Liberty of the Seas around 4 a.m.

AIDA Cruises said one of its crew members was missing after going overboard early on Sunday morning. The missing 28-year-old man, who hasn’t been identified, was with his sister at the Carnival Valor’s bar at 11 p.m. Wednesday when he took a bathroom break and never came back, the outlet reported. The Carnival Valor had been at sea for only a day when calls came over the loudspeaker asking a certain passenger to please report to customer service.

"We even witnessed staff when, we were in Tahiti [earlier], practising retrievals in the water," she said. "We looked out of the window up on the deck and [saw] a lot of life preservers … the big rings were getting thrown overboard, at least eight or nine of those got thrown overboard. "All the staff just dropped everything and ran to every possible vantage point on the ship," Mr Hardy said. "At about 11pm, midnight, we observed the vessel slowing down and turning around on our maps. "There was a lot of commotion on the boat. It all started at about 9pm," she told ABC North West. As of Dec. 24, Royal Caribbean has not provided further information on the incident, citing privacy for the passenger and his family.