My dad was playing tennis with a friend the other day who just returned from a cruise in the Gulf of Mexico. His friend was on the ship that this happened on!!!
A man and a woman fell off the cruise ship in the middle of the night, 65 feet from their bedroom balcony. The man was naked, the woman was in lingerie, I'm sure you can fill in the blanks! Apparently they were also intoxicated.
Luckily there were people who saw them fall and obviously more that heard their screams! It takes a cruise ship a long time to turn around - so it took them 3 hours to get back to the people who fell out of the boat. The man by that point had jellyfish stings all over his naked body (including the place a man would least want to be stung by a jellyfish).
They had to tread water, drunk, in the middle of the night, naked, while being stung by jellyfish, for 3 hours! The woman apparently hit the water face first! Falling 65 feet from a cruise ship would feel like hitting concrete!
The couple was brought back on the boat and a helicopter had to come and get them to take them to the hospital.
My mom said that their was a Front Line on awhile back discussing all of the drunk people that fall off cruise ships (some never to be heard from again)!
The real moral of this story --- if you are going to be participating in those activites on the balcony of your room on a cruise ship - you might want to consider anchoring in with harnesses and ropes. Make sure your partner is "on belay".
I'm still laughing . . .
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