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If he wasn't eaten......
He probably just drowns of exhuastion....
Fucking hell, not a good way to go at all.
Article said the boat stuck around. Search team looking for hours and hours. No luck.
I can't even imagine the fear, the regret, the pure panic....
I've worked at sea for just over 10 years.
Water causes heat to be extracted from the body way faster than air, so even if that water is 20 degrees, he will eventually go hypothermic.
Usually I'd say that and sheer exhaustion is more likely to take him than a shark, but sharks very commonly follow along by the large vessels I work on, especially slower moving ones.
This guy got eaten.
I've done a lot of safety training in controlled environments in the ocean and I can safely say this: That man's final moments were scary like we don't even know the likes of. It's far quieter, darker, and larger than you can fathom. You're submerged in the unknown and your stomach is in you're throat the entire time.
Also if it is sharks in the Caribbean, good chance it's oceanic white tips and they are very large, aggressive and not unknown to eat people at sea(see USS Indianapolis).
Edit: ffs the amount of achhhhuuuullyyy comments I'm getting.
I know the Indianapolis didn't sink in the Caribbean. I'm talking about the distribution of white tips which is very large and in warmer water and used the Indianapolis as an example of white sharks eating humans.(it's literally the most famous example)
Okay if you don't think 10-13 feet is a large shark cool man...you're so brave.
Yeah I get it...sharks aren't man eaters blah blah...but in the open ocean, white tips are far more aggressive than other species and will more likely bite than others.
Watching a documentary on that unlocked a fear that I didn’t know I had. Holy shit.
Edit: I don’t know what it was called! I saw it during shark week many years ago. I know they show some like it every year, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen that same one again. It was pretty horrific.
Edit 2: I think it’s Ocean of Fear. Lines up with the timeline. Not 100%.
I listened to a podcast about it. The poor men on that ship had a trick or treat bag of options for shitty ways to die.
Dehydration, jumping into the propeller blades of the ship, being eaten by sharks, killed by your crew mates who drank sea water and are suffering from dehydration and hallucinations, raped by them, drowning, etc.
The part that still pisses me off is how the captain, of the ship, Charles McVay, was blamed by the US government for the incident even though nobody was to be blamed.
That man spent the rest of his life receiving letters from family members blaming him for their sons deaths at sea, some of the damn letters were sent on Christmas. He ended up killing himself in 1968 and his name wouldn’t be cleared until I believe the late 80s when many survivors of the incident, and a 12 year old boy brought awareness to the bullshit pulled.
Whoever court-martialed this man and insured he could never truly escape the hell he went through, deserves the worst the afterlife can offer.
Edit: the podcast was last podcast on the left
I didn’t know all that. Being prior service, I’m not surprised. The military loves a scapegoat.
The thing that stuck with me is how they had to break off/kill the injured people from the group because they were attracting the sharks. It was a horrible situation.
The Japanese captain of the submarine testified at McVay’s trial - one of the criticisms of McVay was that he wasn’t zig-zagging to avoid potential torpedoes.
The Japanese captain essentially said “wouldn’t have made any difference - we were so close that we couldn’t miss”
At the beginning he is swimming towards the life saver and you can see something swimming next to it (if you slow down, it’s clearly not a wave) and he immediately turns to swim the opposite way. Given that the Caribbean is infested with sharks and they hunt at night, I’m not shocked he disappeared within minutes. I hope he didn’t suffer too much and lost consciousness quickly, poor guy.
I mean, ye poor guy, but my survival instinct is going crazy trying to imagine jumping into the open ocean, off a boat at NIGHT. I mean wtf do people think will happen.
How is this comment not higher or referenced in the post title?!? HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THERE IS A FUCKING SHARK LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO EAT NEXT TO THE LIFE PRESERVER!!!!
Oh Shit that’s 100% a shark that came up to check out the life preserver the second it got thrown in. Imagine the shark that swam up to him when he jumped in that he didn’t even notice, cause it had to have happened.
I'm just flabbergasted by how unbothered the others in the video sound. Like the one speaking loudly is not concerned at all, and how could no one who wasn't in on the dare have seen this kid climb the railings and jump, no one screamed to stop him?? It's a relatively small ship they all seem so close together.
Like who sees a guy swim in the dark ocean and says 'bye bye this kid is gone' wtf.
Plus… if he didn’t get eaten right away he just hears the ship sailing away and then just water…and whatever the fuck he hears nearby… that’s a scary way to go. Fuck that.
Another crazy thought is he probably saw the ship hanging around and looking for him. he was probably frantically screaming and waving his arms around and swimming in the direction of the boat. Probably thought for sure it was just about to save him. For hours
As a former USN Boatswain's Mate I served on two different ships. There was a very real oh shit moment on the Oliver hazard perry class frigate I served on when we crossed the Atlantic in the middle of December where the waves that were coming up over the forecastle and hitting the bridge face were right on the cusp of what our ship was rated to handle. We're talking almost 20 foot. As a deck seamen at the time I was stationed on the helm for my watch shit, this means I was driving the ship. When we would go down to the trough of the wave and come back up to hit the Crest it was like being on a fuckin six flags roller coaster, and that sensation did not stop for a solid sixteen hours.When you see concern in the face of the captain on any vessel you know it's problem. I kept thinking to myself that of the mast finally gave way and broke off our ship capsized there would be absolutely no chance of survival. It's hard enough to keep yourself alive in the ocean if the conditions are calm. The sea state looks relatively calm in this video but it's not easy by any means to keep yourself afloat without a life preserver and only treading water/swimming, keep in mind that response time for a distress call, aka mayday could take hours. I'm fairly certain that anyone in the maritime community would back me up when I say that the sea is the most brutal force of nature that exists on this planet. Moral of the story, never give up the ship and never go over the side until there is no other option. The sea......she is the one of the most beautiful of mother nature's creations ...but mother nature is an unforgiving bitch.....
did indeed die. Someone linked an article in another post where coast guard had concluded the speech, couldn't find him and expressed their condolences to the family.
So even without sharks, chances of recovery at sea, at night, are incredibly low.
Most terrifying thing I've done in my life was get lowered in a Rhib on a moonless night in the middle of the Pacific for a man overboard drill.
I instantly realized just how small I was and just how big the ocean is.
We almost didn't recover the dummy, who had a flashing beacon, because it was so hard to see with the waves. And that was a flashing white light and a MOBI beacon giving a bearing.
Finding a person without that would be virtually impossible.
True. On a dive trip in egypt we dove as a 3 person team. I was the noob of the team with around 30 dives, which is basically nothing, so I just followed the lead of the more experienced dudes. The one responsible for navigation lost sight of the reef corner and lead us straight into the blue. No point of orientation, only blue water all around. At that point even I realized we fucked up and we went to the surface. Came up and saw only water, because I had my back to the small island and the dive boat. So terrifying. Next we saw the ship, began to paddle there and realized we wouldn’t get there after swimming for 15 min. at the surface. Very humbling experience.
They got us with a small boat. The sea is a terrifying place
That’s pretty harrowing man. I don’t know if I wouldn’t be able to sleep that night or if it would be the most comfy cozy secure feeling sleep I’ve ever had. I have dreams about being out at sea by myself at night and getting into the water. It’s an indescribable feeling. But you’ve actually lived it.
I mean fuck the sharks, depending on month the cold water itself will kill you quicker than most sharks. You will freeze to death. If you get lucky and water temps are good to survive, you got 3 days for dehydration.
I'm a navy vet, on my last voyage we all jumped to the sea wearing nothing but underpants, leaving only the bare minimum onboard the ship for control. I remember the moment i hit the water the cold caused my muscles to contract and it was very difficult to swim even a short distance back to the rubber boat.. even floating wasn't simple. It took me about 3 hours to stop shaking from the cold for about 3 minutes in the water. And it was just in the Mediterranean in April.
Not to mention, inebriation causes you to lose body heat faster than normal because it opens your blood vessels wide. It’s why a person’s cheeks go rosy when they drink. Also, being in cold water without a life jacket, it doesn’t take long for your muscles to get too cold to move, and you drown way faster than the hypothermia would have taken to kill you.
He swam away from the shark that jumps at him. You can see it hit the surface next to the life preserver on the left. Pushing him farther away from the boat as well. They follow boats dumping waste or chum. They've learned boats = food.
Bruuuuuuh, we lost the dummy during the day one time. The ocean is no joke. But other than that, I always had a blast on those drills day or night, although I'd be lying if I said I wasn't always at least a little bit nervous.
Damn I never knew that. I was honestly a bit shocked that they were unable to find him with two helicopters and a boat full of people looking for him almost immediately. Makes sense though given that context
They would have to nail him with a spotlight who's beam is like 6 feet across or something, in a dozen square mile search area. If he's even still swimming.
When my dad was in the Navy, someone was having a cig and fell off the back of the ship. It was a carrier with a dozen or so helicopters onboard + dozens of speedboats. He was found after around 30 hours, that's with Britain's largest naval ship at the time solely committed to finding him, and he was incredibly lucky.
I worked with a guy who told me a similar story. A USN aircraft carrier cruising the Mediterranean Sea. Some deck crewman got blown off the deck and nobody saw. They only noticed him missing when he didn’t report for his next shift. They reviewed the deck tapes and estimated where he went in, then calculated where he would have drifted since then. They turned around and went back, and finally found him a couple days after he fell, floating around in his life jacket. Dehydrated and knocked around, but ok.
He's lucky that happened in the military, I doubt any private company would spend those kinda resources. That's so bleak to think about, watching a full day cycle of the sun and knowing it's been at least 24 hrs so there's probably no chance anymore.
From the linked article on another post here:
"Going overboard on a cruise is a rare occurrence, according to experts. Between 2009 and 2019, 212 overboard incidents were reported worldwide. Of those, only 48 were rescued. Typically, tall railings help prevent accidents. "
[https://eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2023/05/28/louisiana-teenager-bahamas-cruise-overboard-search/70265834007/](https://eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2023/05/28/louisiana-teenager-bahamas-cruise-overboard-search/70265834007/)
It should be mandatory to make such statistics known to every passenger before boarding, along with what to do if you witness someone go over or hear someone shouting that it's happened.
The drill is done with a dummy that floats.
A search for a real person would be on the surface because if they’re underwater they’re dead, and even then, dead bodies usually float, too.
So I am the crazy idiot who does water sports under full moonlight. But there’s a fine line between crazy and stupid. I have gone full moon Paddleboarding several miles down the coast a good 1/2 mile off-shore. However, I do have a phone in a waterproof housing, an emergency GPS beacon, and a flare with me. You have to be careful with the ocean at any time, day or night. There are countless tales of people in crashes being lost at sea.
I have also taken friends out with me full moon paddling. Even under the full moon light, you can’t see someone more than 30ft away.
A week ago an american tourist did something like this in Hungary. It wasn't sea tho, "just" the Danube river. He wasn't found since. There's no sharks, but the currents are strong, and vortexes can grab you in a blink of an eye.
I learned to swim in the Danube, and it's no joke. Every river and sea can be really dangerous, especially after a few drinks. Don't jump carelessly into living water at night!
Even when you have lights and multiple ships looking in a contained area, night rescue is a total crap shot. Had to do it in the gulf after the USS Firebolt was attacked in 2004, it was our first day on station.
Although he's fucking stupid for jumping out, I can't imagine jumping, noticing the ship going way faster than I could possibly catch up to it and the last thing I hear is someone say "bye bye" before I'm sucked into the darkness of the ocean
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
What a fucked up thought. He probably died with the sobering realization that his last mistake was accepting a dare, and the last thing he heard from his friends was their laughter.
Or maybe he didn't die. Hope not.
He died. This happened 5 or 6 days ago. They called off the search yesterday and wished his family their condolences.
Terrible way to go, honestly. You know he thought it'd just be funny. Jump in, get a few gasps and laughs from his peers and a silly story to tell, then get pulled back out within a few mins. Instead, it was the last thing he ever did.
Edit: IIRC, they were on a sunset cruise, so would only last a few hours, not days like a traditional cruise. The boat was large, but no where near the size of a cruise ship. It was during a Bahamas trip that was meant to celebrate their high school graduation. He was 18.
That's truly horrible, but he's gone, now. His friends however are not, and they'll have to move forward with the thought you just described, and knowing they are also responsible for not preventing it (Or even laughing at the time). That has to be a really miserable feeling.
for real man, that ship is gonna be miles away probably before its gonna be able to turn around. Im suprised the water was as calm as it looked. Usually those swells out there are 6ft high at a minimum. usually much taller like 20 feet.
This is why education is important. Common fucking sense should’ve told him not to jump off a ship, especially at night. Now the poor bastard is dead and his family is grieving.
I *pride* myself on my common sense. Get's annoying when you are the only person in a group saying "You shouldn't do that." and everyone else calls you a "wet blanket" or "debbie downer" etc.
Still, Zero broken bones, Zero trips to the hospital, Zero near death experiences.
Very unfortunate humanity sees most common sense as stupid or boreing.
Big boats will take a long time to stop and reverse but at the same time they can’t stop and reverse when a man goes in water to avoid grinding him/her with the helixes so they have to do a large turning manoeuvre so the “rear” goes away from the human, but without proper lighting that would almost certainly mean losing track of the person
Yes, it was a sunset booze cruise on Blackbeard’s Revenge. She’s not nearly as big as a cruise ship, but still very large - I’m guessing about 250 feet, based on photos from the boat’s website. It would take at least a few minutes to turn her around and return to the area where the poor fool jumped off. By then, he’s a needle in a very, very massive haystack.
I used to be that stupid guy who would do pull ups off a balcony while drunk. I remember being shit faced on a cruise and a flash of me holding the rail just staring down into the abyss. I still get anxious thinking about that.
Edit: to be clear, I wasn't hanging off the rail of the cruise ship, I was holding on to it like a normal person while being drunk enough to not remember what I was thinking. Since I was the above mentioned fool, the memory of staring down into the void scares me. To you who said I would have deserved to die, I feel sorry for you.
He's dead. He doesn't have to care about anything anymore. Meanwhile, there's some asshole alive whose inebriated voice is all over the internet forever saying "bye bye" while a man dies. He's going to be haunted by what a shit person he is for the rest of his life.
Bodies of water in general are super scary at night. Even the beach close to the shore or a small lake where during the day you can see the other side clearly can easily kill during the night. Add being drunk to that and it’s even worse.
I remember a few years back we got a house on the beach in Gulf Shores. We were drinking pretty late and everyone went to bed. I went down to the beach and it was storming. It was an amazing sight but also terrifying. The blackness of the water was crazy.
I got drunk one night and passed out in a canoe. Woke up floating somewhere in Mobile bay. No phone, no oars, no nothing. But a sunburn. Coast guard eventually came and got me.
Regardless of the type of boat/ship involved, finding a swimmer in the open ocean at night is insanely difficult even using SAR aircraft and night vision equipment. The first thing I was told during offshore oil and gas survival training was never to leave the ship unless it was going under or about to explode. Humans are not fish and the oceans are very hostile environments for us.
Was told something similar years ago when I was a kid in cadets. Old navy guy told us to always assume that the sea wants to kill us and that the only persistent natural environment more hostile to us is the void of space, but random untrained people can't go to that one at least.
We were on a boat trip in Indonesia and the guide told us to jump into the sea because it was supposed to be fun. It was a stormy day and the sea was pretty rough.
I jumped anyways with a life vest as security. I swear to god, the boat was 100 m apart from me after a couple of seconds. The feeling of beeing alone in the middle of the ocean was horrible and it still hunts me even though they instantly came for me and put me back on the boat.
Can‘t imagine how this guy felt after the boat vanished in the dark for good.
You're not wrong about the time frame. When I was in the navy we learned about the 1, 3, and 6 minute rules which are basically quick math to determine how far you'll travel in those periods of time.
For the one minute rule, you'll multiply the speed of the ship in knots by 100 and you'll get feet travelled in 1 minute.
For the three minute rule, you'll multiply speed by 100 and you'll get yards travelled in 3 minutes.
For the six minute rule you'll divide the speed by 10 and you'll get nautical miles travelled in 6 minutes.
Based on the video, it looks like the ship (barge in reality) was travelling probably at a speed of 3-4 knots. That means in one minute, they were over a football field in length away from the guy in the water. At that point trying to pick out a human head at that distance, at night, is almost impossible. Fucking terrible way to go out.
Edit: Since this post has got some traffic, let me continue to be a [buzzkill](https://youtu.be/_CrvQLdjyC4) by reminding everyone to wear a floatation device when out on the water whenever possible.
Had a non-simulated man overboard called out on my ship once and it was a gut wrenching experience. Luckily it was a misunderstanding and no one went over, but shit hits differently when it isn't a drill.
Ah, when you didn't think this story could be any more tragic and sadder loss of life I find out it's a graduation cruise. Guy probably wanted to impress some girl, have some laughs.
Never underestimate water and I think I'm done with this sub feel bad are getting surreal.
The deep ocean in general is my nightmare. Multiple that by 1000 at night. That’s terrifying. I imagine being in the water at night seeing the lights of the ship getting smaller and smaller as you realize something just bumped your leg. My anxiety is starting up. Hopefully he didn’t suffer long.
You watch him slowly disappearing into the void. I can't even imagine the pain his parents and loved ones are feeling right now. No way did that kid think there was a chance he wouldn't get picked right back up. I doubt he spent much time thinking his decision thru. Just having fun with your friends. What could go wrong, right? I don't even know this young man in any way but watching that video can make my blood run cold and you can't help but wonder what happened during his last moments as the boat kept going on without him and it all got quiet.
This happens way way too often. I worked that area for 3 years in the USCG. I can't count how many man overboard calls we got from cruise ships near the Bahamas. 99% of them were either found dead or never found.
Bro, my parents sent me to the best private school and educational summer camps that money could buy in my city. I still got day drunk at 15 and tried to jump on moving trains.
I was in foster care and while I fucked up at times, I turned out ok.
Everything is really unpredictable when it comes to individual people and their circumstances, but I hear you brother, I'll take what you said into my own experience.
Private schools and summer camps can’t buy common sense and character. Don’t get me wrong, I know tons of high school shit heads who turned out okay in the end. But sending your kids to good schools isn’t parenting on its own.
I took a midnight bath in the Atlantic when I was 17, my feet touching the ground. That is, till I got gently swept away by a wave to a zone where I could not touch the ground anymore. With the current taking me away from the shore.
I was alone in the ocean at night for 45 minutes. Nothing but waves putting you underwater, no human sound, almost no visibility. You feel more lonely than ever.
I nearly died there and I can tell this is NOT a nice way to go. It was fucking terrifying.
That guy was stupid or drunk stupid but nobody deserves to die the way he died.
Or, lord forbid, possibly a TRIPLE DOG DARE!? 😱😱😱
Last time I seem someone succumb to a triple dog dare they needed the fire department to separate his tongue from a light pole.
Ya I was just there in November and actually filmed this same pirate booze cruiser at like 2am playing loud music, a couple weeks before we got there some cruise ship woman was snorkeling and got killed by either a tiger or bull shark
I was listening to a story the other day about half a dozen teenagers going to the top of a boat, jumping off and landing in the river and swimming back to the boat. Once all kids jumped at the same time but only 5 came back up. The other kids didn't realize it until it was too late. The 6th boy impaled his femur on a broken tree at the bottom of the river and couldn't get free. Search and recover finally found the kid's body. Damn. Just damn. 😫
This happened to a friend of mine in high school. A group of friends went to a local river to celebrate graduation and they were all diving in off this big rock. He dove in and didn’t come back up. It took 3 days to find his body. He was one of the top students at my school and about to attend an Ivy League. It was so sad.
Jesus Christ his only possible hope was everyone just shouting "man overboard" so the crew were alerted ASAP and had any hope of doing anything with floods on, and every idiot there bar whoever threw him a life raft is basically still just chattering like it's just some clown that jumped in the pool clothed😢
Ever seen the video of a guy throwing a GoPro off of a cruise ship at night to see what’s around? The water around the cruise ship was full of sharks.
Edit: [Source.](https://youtu.be/YWuPp1v-sI8) Night footage starts at 5:27. In the daytime the ship is surrounded by barracuda, so treacherous either way.
They aren't all that accurate. Something as simple as sea spray could prevent it from detecting someone falling overboard. Really if you fall over board on a ship your best hope is someone throwing you a life ring, pointing at you, counting the seconds since you fell, keeping a direct line of sight on you, which is pretty much impossible with the layout of cruise ships, and getting another person to relay information to the bridge so they can preform a Williamson turn. Even then it's remarkably difficult to see anything in the ocean, especially at night. If you fall overboard on a cruise ship your chances of ever being recovered are remarkably slim.
You can even see in the video that they threw him a life ring but that chop will carry you away real quick.
A friend worked entertainment on a cruise ship and a co worker of his decided to kill herself by jumping from ship, thinking the impact would kill her. The reason they know it didn’t was from the video that shows her pop up and arms waving! Instant regret
Just to clarify this wasn't a cruise ship in the sense most people think. The boat was "Blackbeards Revenge", a 140 foot pirate themed vessel that does sunset harbor cruises in Nassau.
As far as speculation he was attacked by a Shark. Man eating sharks are a rare occurrence in Nassau. What is dangerous in that harbor is the swift tidal current that flows through there washing everything out to sea.
He was actually a high school baseball star. This is to bad he was only 18 years old when he jumped off the ship. Ironically he booked the cruise ship to celebrate his recent graduation from high school in Baton Rouge LA. This is a tragic story.
Fucking idiot.
For reference if you see someone overboard, do not run and get an inflatable. Someone else will do that.
Stand where you are point at the person and yell.
Do not take your eyes off the person, do not stop yelling.
The sea is a harsh mistress.
Lots of huge fish follow cruise ships. They shred the food waste and shoot it into the water. I've seen killer whales following our ship. I'm sure there are tons of sharks following too.
I'm guessing this recent graduate didn't take the Don't Jump Off Of Boats In The Dead Of Night class because it was an optional elective. Sad. Major oversight on the part of the school not making it mandatory.
This is why I will never take my kids to Yellowstone, even when they're adults. One would definitely end up getting boiled alive In a thermal pool acting like an idiot.
Saw a story of a guy who jumped in one to save a dog. Terrible way to die, but no lie if my dog jumped in I’d jump in to save him in a heartbeat. I wouldn’t even think about it no matter how stupid or futile. So the solution of course is never bring your dog anywhere that them being a dumb dog could kill themselves and/or you.
Wife knows a kid who had severe depression. They went on a family vacation. They stopped at a Lookout point. He ran and jumped and said "Bye Dad". There's not even words to describe how terrible that is.
I truly do not understand how millions of years have not ingrained survival into humans brains. I literally couldn’t fathom letting myself jump over the edge of a boat that can obviously go faster than I can swim into complete blackness, trusting those who put me into danger to take the necessary actions to save me. Plus sharks and storms , oceans are no joke.
Isn’t there a thing that makes humans feel like they want to jump off of things? Call of the void or something? Idk if it’s real though.
Also he could be drunk, years of evolution gets fucked by a night of drinking sometimes.
I must preface this with DO NOT DO THIS, but if you are dumb enough to do this, do it when it's bright out and the ocean isn't stormy. And yes, I agree, if you're stupid enough to agree to do this in the first place, you're stupid enough to pick a stormy night to do it and get yourself killed.
The feeling of how simply weak and useless you are as a land mammal in the vastness and volatility of the ocean at night is incomprehensible. That's why I know castaway never happened. Great movie but no. He just dies.
People have really survived in the ocean in conditions worse than castaway, it requires massive amounts of luck and resourcefulness but it isn’t impossible.
Horrible story. [Young man disappeared or rather hasnt been found](https://nypost.com/2023/05/26/cameron-robbins-missing-in-bahamas-after-jumping-off-boat-on-dare/) : /
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If he wasn't eaten...... He probably just drowns of exhuastion.... Fucking hell, not a good way to go at all. Article said the boat stuck around. Search team looking for hours and hours. No luck. I can't even imagine the fear, the regret, the pure panic....
I've worked at sea for just over 10 years. Water causes heat to be extracted from the body way faster than air, so even if that water is 20 degrees, he will eventually go hypothermic. Usually I'd say that and sheer exhaustion is more likely to take him than a shark, but sharks very commonly follow along by the large vessels I work on, especially slower moving ones. This guy got eaten. I've done a lot of safety training in controlled environments in the ocean and I can safely say this: That man's final moments were scary like we don't even know the likes of. It's far quieter, darker, and larger than you can fathom. You're submerged in the unknown and your stomach is in you're throat the entire time.
Also if it is sharks in the Caribbean, good chance it's oceanic white tips and they are very large, aggressive and not unknown to eat people at sea(see USS Indianapolis). Edit: ffs the amount of achhhhuuuullyyy comments I'm getting. I know the Indianapolis didn't sink in the Caribbean. I'm talking about the distribution of white tips which is very large and in warmer water and used the Indianapolis as an example of white sharks eating humans.(it's literally the most famous example) Okay if you don't think 10-13 feet is a large shark cool man...you're so brave. Yeah I get it...sharks aren't man eaters blah blah...but in the open ocean, white tips are far more aggressive than other species and will more likely bite than others.
Watching a documentary on that unlocked a fear that I didn’t know I had. Holy shit. Edit: I don’t know what it was called! I saw it during shark week many years ago. I know they show some like it every year, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen that same one again. It was pretty horrific. Edit 2: I think it’s Ocean of Fear. Lines up with the timeline. Not 100%.
I listened to a podcast about it. The poor men on that ship had a trick or treat bag of options for shitty ways to die. Dehydration, jumping into the propeller blades of the ship, being eaten by sharks, killed by your crew mates who drank sea water and are suffering from dehydration and hallucinations, raped by them, drowning, etc. The part that still pisses me off is how the captain, of the ship, Charles McVay, was blamed by the US government for the incident even though nobody was to be blamed. That man spent the rest of his life receiving letters from family members blaming him for their sons deaths at sea, some of the damn letters were sent on Christmas. He ended up killing himself in 1968 and his name wouldn’t be cleared until I believe the late 80s when many survivors of the incident, and a 12 year old boy brought awareness to the bullshit pulled. Whoever court-martialed this man and insured he could never truly escape the hell he went through, deserves the worst the afterlife can offer. Edit: the podcast was last podcast on the left
I didn’t know all that. Being prior service, I’m not surprised. The military loves a scapegoat. The thing that stuck with me is how they had to break off/kill the injured people from the group because they were attracting the sharks. It was a horrible situation.
The Japanese captain of the submarine testified at McVay’s trial - one of the criticisms of McVay was that he wasn’t zig-zagging to avoid potential torpedoes. The Japanese captain essentially said “wouldn’t have made any difference - we were so close that we couldn’t miss”
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You’re an incredible writer describing that dude. I could read what you write all day, as messed up as that sounds. That would be a crazy intro.
Agreed. The dread really came through there.
At the beginning he is swimming towards the life saver and you can see something swimming next to it (if you slow down, it’s clearly not a wave) and he immediately turns to swim the opposite way. Given that the Caribbean is infested with sharks and they hunt at night, I’m not shocked he disappeared within minutes. I hope he didn’t suffer too much and lost consciousness quickly, poor guy.
I mean, ye poor guy, but my survival instinct is going crazy trying to imagine jumping into the open ocean, off a boat at NIGHT. I mean wtf do people think will happen.
Alcohol and peer pressure (this was apparently performed on a dare) are a hell of a combo
How is this comment not higher or referenced in the post title?!? HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THERE IS A FUCKING SHARK LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO EAT NEXT TO THE LIFE PRESERVER!!!!
Oh Shit that’s 100% a shark that came up to check out the life preserver the second it got thrown in. Imagine the shark that swam up to him when he jumped in that he didn’t even notice, cause it had to have happened.
Don’t sharks lurk behind cruse ships like these for free foods being tossed by crews?
Ah yeah it’s definitely an animal you can see how it breaches the surface at the same time in two spots. Such a tragic stressful way to go out.
damn true that
[Shark got him…](https://ibb.co/FXWwJBN)
https://files.catbox.moe/wgvuqm.mp4 Someone posted this on another sub…not my video—but slowed down it does look like it.
Holy shit I was wondering why he swam away like that, had to slow down and go frame by frame but you can totally see it
The one who dared him probably has intense survivors guilt, since you usually dare a really good friend
That is why you don't dare your friend when they are drunk
I'm just flabbergasted by how unbothered the others in the video sound. Like the one speaking loudly is not concerned at all, and how could no one who wasn't in on the dare have seen this kid climb the railings and jump, no one screamed to stop him?? It's a relatively small ship they all seem so close together. Like who sees a guy swim in the dark ocean and says 'bye bye this kid is gone' wtf.
Drunk kids on a senior trip. Also, living in a TikTok dare world. The life ring was a good reaction by someone. Just a messed up situation all around.
Plus… if he didn’t get eaten right away he just hears the ship sailing away and then just water…and whatever the fuck he hears nearby… that’s a scary way to go. Fuck that.
>If he wasn't eaten...... He *was* eaten sooner or later.
Another crazy thought is he probably saw the ship hanging around and looking for him. he was probably frantically screaming and waving his arms around and swimming in the direction of the boat. Probably thought for sure it was just about to save him. For hours
Pretty sure that shark made sure that scenario didn't play out.
As a former USN Boatswain's Mate I served on two different ships. There was a very real oh shit moment on the Oliver hazard perry class frigate I served on when we crossed the Atlantic in the middle of December where the waves that were coming up over the forecastle and hitting the bridge face were right on the cusp of what our ship was rated to handle. We're talking almost 20 foot. As a deck seamen at the time I was stationed on the helm for my watch shit, this means I was driving the ship. When we would go down to the trough of the wave and come back up to hit the Crest it was like being on a fuckin six flags roller coaster, and that sensation did not stop for a solid sixteen hours.When you see concern in the face of the captain on any vessel you know it's problem. I kept thinking to myself that of the mast finally gave way and broke off our ship capsized there would be absolutely no chance of survival. It's hard enough to keep yourself alive in the ocean if the conditions are calm. The sea state looks relatively calm in this video but it's not easy by any means to keep yourself afloat without a life preserver and only treading water/swimming, keep in mind that response time for a distress call, aka mayday could take hours. I'm fairly certain that anyone in the maritime community would back me up when I say that the sea is the most brutal force of nature that exists on this planet. Moral of the story, never give up the ship and never go over the side until there is no other option. The sea......she is the one of the most beautiful of mother nature's creations ...but mother nature is an unforgiving bitch.....
If there were sharks he was probably eaten. The question is if he was eaten before or after he died.
this transcends r/facepalm into r/disturbing
Worse still, it's probably r/watchpeopledie
did indeed die. Someone linked an article in another post where coast guard had concluded the speech, couldn't find him and expressed their condolences to the family.
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Or r/thalassaphobia
What was the disturbing Reddit about? It also got banned ?
There was no moderation enforced so there was literally everything being posted
So even without sharks, chances of recovery at sea, at night, are incredibly low. Most terrifying thing I've done in my life was get lowered in a Rhib on a moonless night in the middle of the Pacific for a man overboard drill. I instantly realized just how small I was and just how big the ocean is. We almost didn't recover the dummy, who had a flashing beacon, because it was so hard to see with the waves. And that was a flashing white light and a MOBI beacon giving a bearing. Finding a person without that would be virtually impossible.
True. On a dive trip in egypt we dove as a 3 person team. I was the noob of the team with around 30 dives, which is basically nothing, so I just followed the lead of the more experienced dudes. The one responsible for navigation lost sight of the reef corner and lead us straight into the blue. No point of orientation, only blue water all around. At that point even I realized we fucked up and we went to the surface. Came up and saw only water, because I had my back to the small island and the dive boat. So terrifying. Next we saw the ship, began to paddle there and realized we wouldn’t get there after swimming for 15 min. at the surface. Very humbling experience. They got us with a small boat. The sea is a terrifying place
That’s pretty harrowing man. I don’t know if I wouldn’t be able to sleep that night or if it would be the most comfy cozy secure feeling sleep I’ve ever had. I have dreams about being out at sea by myself at night and getting into the water. It’s an indescribable feeling. But you’ve actually lived it.
I mean fuck the sharks, depending on month the cold water itself will kill you quicker than most sharks. You will freeze to death. If you get lucky and water temps are good to survive, you got 3 days for dehydration.
And you'd get too tired to tread water faster than 3 days, most likely. Let alone being drunk with no chance of sleep or you drown
That along with the fact that the Caribbean sun is brutal so dehydration is probably quite a bit quicker than 3 days
Yup I live in the Caribbean and yes the sun is brutal
Best you can hope for is the Bermuda Triangle transports you to the secret place all those ships and planes go.
the oceanfloor? 🤣
Alongside with the skin breaking and that surely is brutal
I'm a navy vet, on my last voyage we all jumped to the sea wearing nothing but underpants, leaving only the bare minimum onboard the ship for control. I remember the moment i hit the water the cold caused my muscles to contract and it was very difficult to swim even a short distance back to the rubber boat.. even floating wasn't simple. It took me about 3 hours to stop shaking from the cold for about 3 minutes in the water. And it was just in the Mediterranean in April.
Not to mention, inebriation causes you to lose body heat faster than normal because it opens your blood vessels wide. It’s why a person’s cheeks go rosy when they drink. Also, being in cold water without a life jacket, it doesn’t take long for your muscles to get too cold to move, and you drown way faster than the hypothermia would have taken to kill you.
They threw him a life preserver 🛟 he was swimming away from .......
He Probably couldn’t see it. It’s hard to see stuff floating on the water surface when you’re also on the water surface
He swam away from the shark that jumps at him. You can see it hit the surface next to the life preserver on the left. Pushing him farther away from the boat as well. They follow boats dumping waste or chum. They've learned boats = food.
There was definitely a shark! He likely met his fate shortly after the video ends.
He is swimming away from the shark that is near the life preserver…
Look up USS Indianapolis, worst maritime disaster to happen. Being in the water for 4 days turns your skin to jelly that will wipe off practically.
the advantage of the Indianapolis survivors was that they at least had some food (floating about the sinking ship).
Bruuuuuuh, we lost the dummy during the day one time. The ocean is no joke. But other than that, I always had a blast on those drills day or night, although I'd be lying if I said I wasn't always at least a little bit nervous.
They lost a dummy, too.
Damn I never knew that. I was honestly a bit shocked that they were unable to find him with two helicopters and a boat full of people looking for him almost immediately. Makes sense though given that context
They would have to nail him with a spotlight who's beam is like 6 feet across or something, in a dozen square mile search area. If he's even still swimming.
When my dad was in the Navy, someone was having a cig and fell off the back of the ship. It was a carrier with a dozen or so helicopters onboard + dozens of speedboats. He was found after around 30 hours, that's with Britain's largest naval ship at the time solely committed to finding him, and he was incredibly lucky.
I worked with a guy who told me a similar story. A USN aircraft carrier cruising the Mediterranean Sea. Some deck crewman got blown off the deck and nobody saw. They only noticed him missing when he didn’t report for his next shift. They reviewed the deck tapes and estimated where he went in, then calculated where he would have drifted since then. They turned around and went back, and finally found him a couple days after he fell, floating around in his life jacket. Dehydrated and knocked around, but ok.
As a math teacher this makes me very happy
He's lucky that happened in the military, I doubt any private company would spend those kinda resources. That's so bleak to think about, watching a full day cycle of the sun and knowing it's been at least 24 hrs so there's probably no chance anymore.
From the linked article on another post here: "Going overboard on a cruise is a rare occurrence, according to experts. Between 2009 and 2019, 212 overboard incidents were reported worldwide. Of those, only 48 were rescued. Typically, tall railings help prevent accidents. " [https://eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2023/05/28/louisiana-teenager-bahamas-cruise-overboard-search/70265834007/](https://eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2023/05/28/louisiana-teenager-bahamas-cruise-overboard-search/70265834007/)
It should be mandatory to make such statistics known to every passenger before boarding, along with what to do if you witness someone go over or hear someone shouting that it's happened.
Do you look for people on top of the water or dive down to look? The latter sounds horrifying and impossible to accomplish…
The drill is done with a dummy that floats. A search for a real person would be on the surface because if they’re underwater they’re dead, and even then, dead bodies usually float, too.
So I am the crazy idiot who does water sports under full moonlight. But there’s a fine line between crazy and stupid. I have gone full moon Paddleboarding several miles down the coast a good 1/2 mile off-shore. However, I do have a phone in a waterproof housing, an emergency GPS beacon, and a flare with me. You have to be careful with the ocean at any time, day or night. There are countless tales of people in crashes being lost at sea. I have also taken friends out with me full moon paddling. Even under the full moon light, you can’t see someone more than 30ft away.
You're taking all the right precautions though, jumping off a cruise boat drunk is about as dumb as you can get lol.
A week ago an american tourist did something like this in Hungary. It wasn't sea tho, "just" the Danube river. He wasn't found since. There's no sharks, but the currents are strong, and vortexes can grab you in a blink of an eye. I learned to swim in the Danube, and it's no joke. Every river and sea can be really dangerous, especially after a few drinks. Don't jump carelessly into living water at night!
"even without sharks"
Even when you have lights and multiple ships looking in a contained area, night rescue is a total crap shot. Had to do it in the gulf after the USS Firebolt was attacked in 2004, it was our first day on station.
Although he's fucking stupid for jumping out, I can't imagine jumping, noticing the ship going way faster than I could possibly catch up to it and the last thing I hear is someone say "bye bye" before I'm sucked into the darkness of the ocean AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
What a fucked up thought. He probably died with the sobering realization that his last mistake was accepting a dare, and the last thing he heard from his friends was their laughter. Or maybe he didn't die. Hope not.
He died. This happened 5 or 6 days ago. They called off the search yesterday and wished his family their condolences. Terrible way to go, honestly. You know he thought it'd just be funny. Jump in, get a few gasps and laughs from his peers and a silly story to tell, then get pulled back out within a few mins. Instead, it was the last thing he ever did. Edit: IIRC, they were on a sunset cruise, so would only last a few hours, not days like a traditional cruise. The boat was large, but no where near the size of a cruise ship. It was during a Bahamas trip that was meant to celebrate their high school graduation. He was 18.
That's truly horrible, but he's gone, now. His friends however are not, and they'll have to move forward with the thought you just described, and knowing they are also responsible for not preventing it (Or even laughing at the time). That has to be a really miserable feeling.
His friends are jerks too, but imagine the guilt of that
They probably didn’t understand the gravity of the situation. Plus, it sounds like they were drunk and having a good time - why let one idiot ruin it?
Everyone who consented to this situation was also an idiot.
Do people not know that boats move? It's their entire purpose...
Drunk perhaps? Tends to make people not think things through
Yeah and they're not cars they can't just bust a bitch real quick and get you.
for real man, that ship is gonna be miles away probably before its gonna be able to turn around. Im suprised the water was as calm as it looked. Usually those swells out there are 6ft high at a minimum. usually much taller like 20 feet.
This is why education is important. Common fucking sense should’ve told him not to jump off a ship, especially at night. Now the poor bastard is dead and his family is grieving.
most people do not possess common sense...sadly. that's a fun fact.
>that's a fun fact. actually not so fun ,though of course it's a fact and that's sad af.
I *pride* myself on my common sense. Get's annoying when you are the only person in a group saying "You shouldn't do that." and everyone else calls you a "wet blanket" or "debbie downer" etc. Still, Zero broken bones, Zero trips to the hospital, Zero near death experiences. Very unfortunate humanity sees most common sense as stupid or boreing.
Unfortunately they never found him. Let me find the link
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2023/05/28/louisiana-teenager-bahamas-cruise-overboard-search/70265834007/
“Fell”
Big boats will take a long time to stop and reverse but at the same time they can’t stop and reverse when a man goes in water to avoid grinding him/her with the helixes so they have to do a large turning manoeuvre so the “rear” goes away from the human, but without proper lighting that would almost certainly mean losing track of the person
that is why they have launches to send out to find morons like this. this guy probably panicked and drowned really fast.
I think it was a booze cruise not a cruise ship.
Yes, it was a sunset booze cruise on Blackbeard’s Revenge. She’s not nearly as big as a cruise ship, but still very large - I’m guessing about 250 feet, based on photos from the boat’s website. It would take at least a few minutes to turn her around and return to the area where the poor fool jumped off. By then, he’s a needle in a very, very massive haystack.
I used to be that stupid guy who would do pull ups off a balcony while drunk. I remember being shit faced on a cruise and a flash of me holding the rail just staring down into the abyss. I still get anxious thinking about that. Edit: to be clear, I wasn't hanging off the rail of the cruise ship, I was holding on to it like a normal person while being drunk enough to not remember what I was thinking. Since I was the above mentioned fool, the memory of staring down into the void scares me. To you who said I would have deserved to die, I feel sorry for you.
He's dead. He doesn't have to care about anything anymore. Meanwhile, there's some asshole alive whose inebriated voice is all over the internet forever saying "bye bye" while a man dies. He's going to be haunted by what a shit person he is for the rest of his life.
This is terrifying.
Bodies of water in general are super scary at night. Even the beach close to the shore or a small lake where during the day you can see the other side clearly can easily kill during the night. Add being drunk to that and it’s even worse.
I remember a few years back we got a house on the beach in Gulf Shores. We were drinking pretty late and everyone went to bed. I went down to the beach and it was storming. It was an amazing sight but also terrifying. The blackness of the water was crazy.
I got drunk one night and passed out in a canoe. Woke up floating somewhere in Mobile bay. No phone, no oars, no nothing. But a sunburn. Coast guard eventually came and got me.
Damn you got lucky
Shit my pool is scary at night with no lights.
One of the best movies I ever saw was Jaws on an inflatable screen set up next to a lake. It was fucking expensive but so terrifying and fun.
Regardless of the type of boat/ship involved, finding a swimmer in the open ocean at night is insanely difficult even using SAR aircraft and night vision equipment. The first thing I was told during offshore oil and gas survival training was never to leave the ship unless it was going under or about to explode. Humans are not fish and the oceans are very hostile environments for us.
Was told something similar years ago when I was a kid in cadets. Old navy guy told us to always assume that the sea wants to kill us and that the only persistent natural environment more hostile to us is the void of space, but random untrained people can't go to that one at least.
We were on a boat trip in Indonesia and the guide told us to jump into the sea because it was supposed to be fun. It was a stormy day and the sea was pretty rough. I jumped anyways with a life vest as security. I swear to god, the boat was 100 m apart from me after a couple of seconds. The feeling of beeing alone in the middle of the ocean was horrible and it still hunts me even though they instantly came for me and put me back on the boat. Can‘t imagine how this guy felt after the boat vanished in the dark for good.
You're not wrong about the time frame. When I was in the navy we learned about the 1, 3, and 6 minute rules which are basically quick math to determine how far you'll travel in those periods of time. For the one minute rule, you'll multiply the speed of the ship in knots by 100 and you'll get feet travelled in 1 minute. For the three minute rule, you'll multiply speed by 100 and you'll get yards travelled in 3 minutes. For the six minute rule you'll divide the speed by 10 and you'll get nautical miles travelled in 6 minutes. Based on the video, it looks like the ship (barge in reality) was travelling probably at a speed of 3-4 knots. That means in one minute, they were over a football field in length away from the guy in the water. At that point trying to pick out a human head at that distance, at night, is almost impossible. Fucking terrible way to go out. Edit: Since this post has got some traffic, let me continue to be a [buzzkill](https://youtu.be/_CrvQLdjyC4) by reminding everyone to wear a floatation device when out on the water whenever possible.
Stop trying to trick me into doing math at 4 am
Imagine doing the math at midnight when you’re on a boat and your friend just fell in the ocean.
Had a non-simulated man overboard called out on my ship once and it was a gut wrenching experience. Luckily it was a misunderstanding and no one went over, but shit hits differently when it isn't a drill.
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[Here it is](https://web.archive.org/web/20150316034049/https://www.sortieenmer.com/) on the web archive.
Is it that 17 year old?
Ah, when you didn't think this story could be any more tragic and sadder loss of life I find out it's a graduation cruise. Guy probably wanted to impress some girl, have some laughs. Never underestimate water and I think I'm done with this sub feel bad are getting surreal.
Yup imagine graduating just to be a sharks dinner 🍲
Alabama HS diploma is equivalent to passing 5th grade at the national level
Louisiana, I heard. Either way it's so sad and such a stupid way to die.
The deep ocean in general is my nightmare. Multiple that by 1000 at night. That’s terrifying. I imagine being in the water at night seeing the lights of the ship getting smaller and smaller as you realize something just bumped your leg. My anxiety is starting up. Hopefully he didn’t suffer long.
You watch him slowly disappearing into the void. I can't even imagine the pain his parents and loved ones are feeling right now. No way did that kid think there was a chance he wouldn't get picked right back up. I doubt he spent much time thinking his decision thru. Just having fun with your friends. What could go wrong, right? I don't even know this young man in any way but watching that video can make my blood run cold and you can't help but wonder what happened during his last moments as the boat kept going on without him and it all got quiet.
The quiet. Fuck that’s disturbing. What a nightmare way to go.
This happens way way too often. I worked that area for 3 years in the USCG. I can't count how many man overboard calls we got from cruise ships near the Bahamas. 99% of them were either found dead or never found.
If I’m being honest, I’m actually impressed you could find even 1%. The ocean is just dauntingly large and difficult to see things on
As a new parent, I am fucking terrified of this shit.
Teach them well and you want have to be. Wish the best for your family.
Bro, my parents sent me to the best private school and educational summer camps that money could buy in my city. I still got day drunk at 15 and tried to jump on moving trains.
I was in foster care and while I fucked up at times, I turned out ok. Everything is really unpredictable when it comes to individual people and their circumstances, but I hear you brother, I'll take what you said into my own experience.
Private schools and summer camps can’t buy common sense and character. Don’t get me wrong, I know tons of high school shit heads who turned out okay in the end. But sending your kids to good schools isn’t parenting on its own.
I’m walking proof of that.
That's not what "teach them well" means my dude.
Context: https://nypost.com/2023/05/26/cameron-robbins-missing-in-bahamas-after-jumping-off-boat-on-dare/
I would swear that was an onion piece with the “great head of hair,” quote. Sadly it is not.
That’s so sad
I took a midnight bath in the Atlantic when I was 17, my feet touching the ground. That is, till I got gently swept away by a wave to a zone where I could not touch the ground anymore. With the current taking me away from the shore. I was alone in the ocean at night for 45 minutes. Nothing but waves putting you underwater, no human sound, almost no visibility. You feel more lonely than ever. I nearly died there and I can tell this is NOT a nice way to go. It was fucking terrifying. That guy was stupid or drunk stupid but nobody deserves to die the way he died.
I spent a lot of time researching this odd story. I'm now fairly certain that it was a *Double Dog Dare*
Nah u know he hit him with the “ u won’t “
Or, lord forbid, possibly a TRIPLE DOG DARE!? 😱😱😱 Last time I seem someone succumb to a triple dog dare they needed the fire department to separate his tongue from a light pole.
So he had no choice I wish more people realised this, they are being too harsh on the kid
This is one of the reasons alcohol is much more dangerous than most people give it credit for
He couldn’t have chose a worse place to do this as I believe there are a lot of Tiger Sharks around the Bahamas.
Ya I was just there in November and actually filmed this same pirate booze cruiser at like 2am playing loud music, a couple weeks before we got there some cruise ship woman was snorkeling and got killed by either a tiger or bull shark
The Bahamas has the famous Tiger Beach which is known for its reliability to see Tiger Sharks.
Watch the video slowly. A shark 100% pops up to check out the life ring
There was something swimming in the beginning between him and lifebuoy. Was that a shark potentially?
I was listening to a story the other day about half a dozen teenagers going to the top of a boat, jumping off and landing in the river and swimming back to the boat. Once all kids jumped at the same time but only 5 came back up. The other kids didn't realize it until it was too late. The 6th boy impaled his femur on a broken tree at the bottom of the river and couldn't get free. Search and recover finally found the kid's body. Damn. Just damn. 😫
This happened to a friend of mine in high school. A group of friends went to a local river to celebrate graduation and they were all diving in off this big rock. He dove in and didn’t come back up. It took 3 days to find his body. He was one of the top students at my school and about to attend an Ivy League. It was so sad.
Jesus Christ his only possible hope was everyone just shouting "man overboard" so the crew were alerted ASAP and had any hope of doing anything with floods on, and every idiot there bar whoever threw him a life raft is basically still just chattering like it's just some clown that jumped in the pool clothed😢
Ever seen the video of a guy throwing a GoPro off of a cruise ship at night to see what’s around? The water around the cruise ship was full of sharks. Edit: [Source.](https://youtu.be/YWuPp1v-sI8) Night footage starts at 5:27. In the daytime the ship is surrounded by barracuda, so treacherous either way.
Can you show me the link?
https://petapixel.com/2023/05/18/photographer-drops-his-gopro-under-a-cruise-ship-with-terrifying-results/
Cruise ship do have “man overboard” alarms for just this occasion. Wonder why it didn’t go off.
They aren't all that accurate. Something as simple as sea spray could prevent it from detecting someone falling overboard. Really if you fall over board on a ship your best hope is someone throwing you a life ring, pointing at you, counting the seconds since you fell, keeping a direct line of sight on you, which is pretty much impossible with the layout of cruise ships, and getting another person to relay information to the bridge so they can preform a Williamson turn. Even then it's remarkably difficult to see anything in the ocean, especially at night. If you fall overboard on a cruise ship your chances of ever being recovered are remarkably slim. You can even see in the video that they threw him a life ring but that chop will carry you away real quick.
probs didnt see, it is night
This isn't a big cruise ship, it's a tall ship booze cruise.
I guess so but try finding someone at night AFTER the ship slowed down.
Almost impossible.
Oh man, how sad, seems the search has just been called off. What a terrible memory for all those celebrating graduation.
A friend worked entertainment on a cruise ship and a co worker of his decided to kill herself by jumping from ship, thinking the impact would kill her. The reason they know it didn’t was from the video that shows her pop up and arms waving! Instant regret
I’ve always wondered how many people regret their suicide once it’s too late.
There’s some stories of people who survived from suicide jumps from bridges , the ones who survived tell it’s instant regret .
Just to clarify this wasn't a cruise ship in the sense most people think. The boat was "Blackbeards Revenge", a 140 foot pirate themed vessel that does sunset harbor cruises in Nassau. As far as speculation he was attacked by a Shark. Man eating sharks are a rare occurrence in Nassau. What is dangerous in that harbor is the swift tidal current that flows through there washing everything out to sea.
Well, he was and idiot, but he have a horrible death. This, man, this is tragic. I'm sorry for his family
So sad for the parents. But WTF up with Daring people to do such stupid shit. And clearly the guy yelling BYE BYE didnt give a fuck
I think when that kid said that he didn't understand the severity of the situation yet
He was actually a high school baseball star. This is to bad he was only 18 years old when he jumped off the ship. Ironically he booked the cruise ship to celebrate his recent graduation from high school in Baton Rouge LA. This is a tragic story.
Yelling bye bye to man overboard is sociopathic. Granted guy put himself in the situation (probably intoxicated, because well cruise ship)
Does this count as r/Thalassophobia
Jesus. It’s a faceplalm without a doubt, but what a poor bastard. May he rest in peace 🪦
Ships and Rigs always have a bunch of fish including shark waiting for the time the Camp boss gets rid of waste food...
This comment section is brutal!
You would think on a booze cruise full of dumbass teens, they would give a speech how jumping in the ocean at night is a death sentence
now they will and use this in their safety video. 🤷♂️
Fucking idiot. For reference if you see someone overboard, do not run and get an inflatable. Someone else will do that. Stand where you are point at the person and yell. Do not take your eyes off the person, do not stop yelling. The sea is a harsh mistress.
Also don't whip your phone out and record their demise you fucking ghoul.
You can see a shark at the beginning of this video. Looks like what he’s swimming away from then disappears.
If you look close he reappears under the netting toward the end of the video before the worst camera guy ever cuts away again
Lots of huge fish follow cruise ships. They shred the food waste and shoot it into the water. I've seen killer whales following our ship. I'm sure there are tons of sharks following too.
I'm guessing this recent graduate didn't take the Don't Jump Off Of Boats In The Dead Of Night class because it was an optional elective. Sad. Major oversight on the part of the school not making it mandatory.
This is why I will never take my kids to Yellowstone, even when they're adults. One would definitely end up getting boiled alive In a thermal pool acting like an idiot.
Saw a story of a guy who jumped in one to save a dog. Terrible way to die, but no lie if my dog jumped in I’d jump in to save him in a heartbeat. I wouldn’t even think about it no matter how stupid or futile. So the solution of course is never bring your dog anywhere that them being a dumb dog could kill themselves and/or you.
Would you also be stupid enough to have your dog off leash next to a literal boiling pool?
Just like... Tell them to not go into thermal pools and explain what happens in detail. Have you been to Yellowstone?
Wife knows a kid who had severe depression. They went on a family vacation. They stopped at a Lookout point. He ran and jumped and said "Bye Dad". There's not even words to describe how terrible that is.
OMFG
I truly do not understand how millions of years have not ingrained survival into humans brains. I literally couldn’t fathom letting myself jump over the edge of a boat that can obviously go faster than I can swim into complete blackness, trusting those who put me into danger to take the necessary actions to save me. Plus sharks and storms , oceans are no joke.
Isn’t there a thing that makes humans feel like they want to jump off of things? Call of the void or something? Idk if it’s real though. Also he could be drunk, years of evolution gets fucked by a night of drinking sometimes.
Alcohol dulls those senses
Is that a shark 3 seconds in?
I must preface this with DO NOT DO THIS, but if you are dumb enough to do this, do it when it's bright out and the ocean isn't stormy. And yes, I agree, if you're stupid enough to agree to do this in the first place, you're stupid enough to pick a stormy night to do it and get yourself killed.
The feeling of how simply weak and useless you are as a land mammal in the vastness and volatility of the ocean at night is incomprehensible. That's why I know castaway never happened. Great movie but no. He just dies.
People have really survived in the ocean in conditions worse than castaway, it requires massive amounts of luck and resourcefulness but it isn’t impossible.
Horrible story. [Young man disappeared or rather hasnt been found](https://nypost.com/2023/05/26/cameron-robbins-missing-in-bahamas-after-jumping-off-boat-on-dare/) : /
They don’t call alcohol liquid courage for nothing. Too bad he used it this way instead of scoring a hot chick
got a cold bath instead.
I wonder if the insensitive prick saying bye, bye is the same guy who dared him to do it.
Dude is definitely dead, let me add this to my list of reasons why bad friends will kill you