Don't jump of a ship into the Caribbean

[Dennis Taylor 18,861]

 

If you look closely to the far left at about the 16 second mark there's what looks like a shark, which would be at or near the top of the list of reasons why not to do that

[texasdago 7,579]

FAFO

[Homercles 10,206]

Saw this on Reddit…it was a pirate ship themed booze cruise kinda thing, which is why it’s so slow underway.  A real cruise ship would have left him in the dust quickly.

You’d think that would buy time for someone to alert the crew, and the dumbass could hang on the donut until he could be ‘rescued’.  Naturally everyone is yelling expletives and filming.  

FAFO indeed.  

[MissingInAction 25,178]

[Chooky 13,318]

Nightmare. Imagine watching the lights on that ship disappear as you get dragged by a current. And the sounds getting more faint until you're all alone, treading, in pitch black darkness. It looked really dark. Treading water in the dark sucks. Even small waves lap into your face because you can't anticipate anything. What a horrible death, no matter how the end arrived. 

[Chooky 13,318]

16 minutes ago, Dennis Taylor said:

If you look closely to the far left at about the 16 second mark there's what looks like a shark, which would be at or near the top of the list of reasons why not to do that

I can't tell what was splashing on the surface. Could've been a small shark. When I first saw it I thought it was maybe the rope on the throw ring. 

[Hate 20,143]

Like I said when it was mentioned in another thread, a guy I work with has a son that was on that trip. It’s been pretty traumatic for this kids as one would expect. I did some pretty stupid shit when I was a teenager, but jumping off of a cruise ship at night wouldn’t have even registered as something to do for me. I feel badly for his family.

[Dennis Taylor 18,861]

5 minutes ago, Hate said:

Like I said when it was mentioned in another thread, a guy I work with has a son that was on that trip. It’s been pretty traumatic for this kids as one would expect. I did some pretty stupid shit when I was a teenager, but jumping off of a cruise ship at night wouldn’t have even registered as something to do for me. I feel badly for his family.

I searched the kid's name before posting but it didn't bring up any matches

[TwiceHorn 31,534]

27 minutes ago, Homercles said:

Saw this on Reddit…it was a pirate ship themed booze cruise kinda thing, which is why it’s so slow underway.  A real cruise ship would have left him in the dust quickly.

You’d think that would buy time for someone to alert the crew, and the dumbass could hang on the donut until he could be ‘rescued’.  Naturally everyone is yelling expletives and filming.  

FAFO indeed.  

I don't think that's a ship at all.  That's some kind of catamaran or excursion boat.   Not enough freeboard to be a cruise ship.

Yep, it's a redone supply boat.  https://www.blackbeardsrevenge.com/

 

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I can tell you with 100% certainty, that jumping ship at sea, at night, while drunk is not Coast Guard approved.

[Beau Vine 54,413]

His friends seem really smart, too.

[Auto Driller 2,506]

19 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

His friends seem really smart, too.

I mean, someone threw the flotation device for him. Probably would have been a lot more helpful to advise against jumping overboard in the first place though.

[HamsterHookah 112]

1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

I don't think that's a ship at all.  That's some kind of catamaran or excursion boat.   Not enough freeboard to be a cruise ship.

Yep, it's a redone supply boat.  https://www.blackbeardsrevenge.com/

 

I did one of these in the Bahamas once as a young man. Not at night though.

[Neonmoon 38,130]

1 hour ago, Dennis Taylor said:

 

If you look closely to the far left at about the 16 second mark there's what looks like a shark, which would be at or near the top of the list of reasons why not to do that

The shark can be seen at the 3 second mark in the clip. 

[Neonmoon 38,130]

This guy slows down the clip to show it 

 

[Auto Driller 2,506]

2 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

This guy slows down the clip to show it 

 

Damn, what a way to go. RIP bro

[Auto Driller 2,506]

 

[ChiTownDoc 21,154]

If that ship was gonna leave my ass, I think I’d choose the shark as the best way to go.  

[Dnaguy 12,055]

It's sad that we joke about this kid's death and that we'd sink to that level as a group.

I may be jumping to conclusions, but this can't be the first time this kid made a rash decision buoyed by the idea of 'clicks' or followers.

I didn't see any shark there and think it's just folks making waves and going a little overboard with their conjecture.

He was likely dead in the water the minute he jumped and gondola bottom after he tired himself out.

By and large, U-boat to find a lot of kids in the doldrums who couldn't fathom this happing to someone they knew.

Best we give them a wide berth to seek help from a grief counselor who know the ropes when it comes to traumatic events like this.

 

[atomheartbevo 89,787]

7 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

It's sad that we joke about this kid's death and that we'd sink to that level as a group.

I may be jumping to conclusions, but this can't be the first time this kid made a rash decision buoyed by the idea of 'clicks' or followers.

I didn't see any shark there and think it's just folks making waves and going a little overboard with their conjecture.

He was likely dead in the water the minute he jumped and gondola bottom after he tired himself out.

By and large, U-boat to find a lot of kids in the doldrums who couldn't fathom this happing to someone they knew.

Best we give them a wide berth to seek help from a grief counselor who know the ropes when it comes to traumatic events like this.

 

[Bevo 13,598]

7 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

It's sad that we joke about this kid's death and that we'd sink to that level as a group.

I may be jumping to conclusions, but this can't be the first time this kid made a rash decision buoyed by the idea of 'clicks' or followers.

I didn't see any shark there and think it's just folks making waves and going a little overboard with their conjecture.

He was likely dead in the water the minute he jumped and gondola bottom after he tired himself out.

By and large, U-boat to find a lot of kids in the doldrums who couldn't fathom this happing to someone they knew.

Best we give them a wide berth to seek help from a grief counselor who know the ropes when it comes to traumatic events like this.

 

I sea what you did there

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,820]

11 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

It's sad that we joke about this kid's death and that we'd sink to that level as a group.

I may be jumping to conclusions, but this can't be the first time this kid made a rash decision buoyed by the idea of 'clicks' or followers.

I didn't see any shark there and think it's just folks making waves and going a little overboard with their conjecture.

He was likely dead in the water the minute he jumped and gondola bottom after he tired himself out.

By and large, U-boat to find a lot of kids in the doldrums who couldn't fathom this happing to someone they knew.

Best we give them a wide berth to seek help from a grief counselor who know the ropes when it comes to traumatic events like this.

 

Regular fucking Mark Twain right here.

[Post Oak 20,261]

HSO. People who go in the ocean are fools.

[Horn Dog 9,913]

Wait.. Ive seen this before!

[Brothahorn 10,087]

2 hours ago, Hate said:

Like I said when it was mentioned in another thread, a guy I work with has a son that was on that trip. It’s been pretty traumatic for this kids as one would expect. I did some pretty stupid shit when I was a teenager, but jumping off of a cruise ship at night wouldn’t have even registered as something to do for me. I feel badly for his family.

Was it really a dare? or Suicide?

[FartingMonk 3,608]

I take a ferry to work.  We get a jumper about every 3-4 months.  In the winter it gets dark early and the water is cold.   They usually don't recover the body

[SL Xpress 7,518]

3 hours ago, Chooky said:

Nightmare. Imagine watching the lights on that ship disappear as you get dragged by a current. And the sounds getting more faint until you're all alone, treading, in pitch black darkness. It looked really dark. Treading water in the dark sucks. Even small waves lap into your face because you can't anticipate anything. What a horrible death, no matter how the end arrived. 

As someone who has made some really dumb decisions and through nothing I did managed to live through them without deserving to, I can tell you his last thoughts as he blub blub blubbed were, "that was a really dumb thing I did."

[Wally Fairway 5,584]

oh look  - there is another one

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/30/us/florida-carnival-overboard-search/index.html

oast Guard crews are searching for a 35-year-old man who went overboard from a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday, officials said.

Ronnie Peale Jr., of Crimora, Virginia, went overboard, his partner and his mother told CNN. He fell from the Carnival Magic early Monday, according to the cruise line, and a search was taking place about 185 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida, US Coast Guard Southeast said Tuesday.

Peale and his partner, Jennilyn Blosser, went on the cruise to celebrate her birthday, and it was his first time on a cruise, Blosser said. She went to bed Sunday night, and when she woke up on Monday around 11:30 a.m., she was unable to find her partner, she told CNN.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8,817]

This is giving me serious PTSD from the last time people were captured bailing on a cruise ship. Ugh, awful..

[Hmbre97 6,331]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRokReXk/

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,920]

Probably shouldn’t jump off a ship either

[tx 3 putt 77,380]

maybe the shark just wanted to be petted ?

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[Grade of D as in David 13,253]

3 hours ago, FartingMonk said:

I take a ferry to work.  We get a jumper about every 3-4 months.  In the winter it gets dark early and the water is cold.   They usually don't recover the body

Where do you live? Asking for a friend.

 

Edited May 31, 2023 by Grade of D as in David

[SquishMitten 10,428]

I don’t see a shark in any of those clips

[HenryJames 66,168]

8 hours ago, Chooky said:

Nightmare. Imagine watching the lights on that ship disappear as you get dragged by a current. And the sounds getting more faint until you're all alone, treading, in pitch black darkness. It looked really dark. Treading water in the dark sucks. Even small waves lap into your face because you can't anticipate anything. What a horrible death, no matter how the end arrived. 

[South Austin 52,587]

5 hours ago, Post Oak said:

People who go in the ocean are fools.

There was a whole ship of them.

[Bevo 13,598]

1 hour ago, SquishMitten said:

I don’t see a shark in any of those clips

How about a prop?

[Bevo 13,598]

31 minutes ago, Bevo said:

How about a prop?

Just an FYI but being cut up by a prop is pretty rare. There isn't much of a vector on most ships to pull water from the surface. A dropped piece of bread off of a ship usually gets pushed out from the hull water displacement than down into the prop. It can happen though depending on the placement of the prop.

Exhaustion or hypothermia are the main causes of death.

[Guest]

It's not all of the sharks outside the boat you need to be worried about...

wait...

[Hermanator 7,154]

Don't start a thread if you aren't ready to bring the required number of "F's"

[WBT 20,662]

How many people do you lose on a normal cruise?  30? 40?

[Quagmire 2,147]

How many people do you lose on a normal cruise?  30? 40?

People saying that’s a shark are dumb

[Chooky 13,318]

3 hours ago, HenryJames said:

[South Austin 52,587]

3 minutes ago, Quagmire said:

People saying that’s a shark are dumb

I'm not saying it's a shark.  I'm just saying they're going to need a bigger boat.

[Chooky 13,318]

8 minutes ago, Quagmire said:

People saying that’s a shark are dumb

Probably a megalodon.

[troph 24,905]

Jesus this causes serious anxiety. I’ve nearly died once in the ocean on a pacific beach in a Baja undercurrent and FML that was not fun - mostly not fun remembering it tbqh as in the moment biology took over. It was 100% a near death experience.  Once you really think you are a goner in that kind of sudden way your brain shuts down and goes into dying mode which is peaceful and it blocks a lot of outside stimuli including physical sensations from vision to physical feelings. Anxiety was no where to be found just “oh well, this is it.” I imagine drowning in the open ocean or being attacked by a shark (not saying it’s a shark I didn’t watch) would be the same the body and brain just shut it down early and say “well, that was dumb” in a matter of fact mode and “it was a nice ride.”

in fact I remember my last thoughts were “my ex is gonna kill me my life insurance lapsed” and “what are my employees going to do?” And then on both accounts, “well it’s too late for me to do anything about it, I guess this is it.” The second I was about to breathe in salt water my girlfriend at the time / now wife screamed swim !! I was woken out of what was basically a trance and body surfed to shore. It was a low wave cycle and I made it back but I had to dig into the shore for another round of crashing waves. I was able to stay on the beach as the surf tried to pull me in. Next low round of waves I crawled up the beach to safety.  Spent the rest of the day non stop shaking and alternating between uncontrollable sobbing and uncontrollable laughing. 

Edited May 31, 2023 by troph

[TwiceHorn 31,534]

9 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

oh look  - there is another one

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/30/us/florida-carnival-overboard-search/index.html

oast Guard crews are searching for a 35-year-old man who went overboard from a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday, officials said.

Ronnie Peale Jr., of Crimora, Virginia, went overboard, his partner and his mother told CNN. He fell from the Carnival Magic early Monday, according to the cruise line, and a search was taking place about 185 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida, US Coast Guard Southeast said Tuesday.

Peale and his partner, Jennilyn Blosser, went on the cruise to celebrate her birthday, and it was his first time on a cruise, Blosser said. She went to bed Sunday night, and when she woke up on Monday around 11:30 a.m., she was unable to find her partner, she told CNN.

Falling 70 or 100 feet into the water, when drunk or unprepared seems like a recipe for getting knocked unconscious or at least having the wind knocked out of you, which would also seem to be a very bad start to being stranded in the open ocean.

[Clintonaldo 2,576]

Looks like BlackBeards Revenge wasn't playing.

 

 

Hate it for the kid but what how stupid.

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5 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

I don’t see a shark in any of those clips

Neither did he.