A passenger went overboard from the Icon of the Seas this weekend after the Royal Caribbean cruise ship was heading towards Roatan, Honduras from Miami firstly of a 7 day Caribbean cruise. The favored cruise fan web site, Cruise Hive, reported {that a} man went overboard when the Icon of the Seas was roughly 300 miles from Miami.
There are conflicting conclusions relating to how the passenger left the cruise ship and ended up within the water. Cruise Hive claims, within the headline of the article, that the passenger allegedly “jumped” though the textual content refers to tweets from passengers who acknowledged that the passenger “jumped/fell” overboard or just “went overboard.” The New York Post additionally reported that the person “jumped” and cited unnamed “officers” because the supply of the conclusion. The Independent newspaper additionally acknowledged that the passenger “reportedly jumped” in line with the New York Put up, however once more cited no eye witnesses or closed circuit cameras as sources of the conclusion. The U.Okay.’s Daily Mail additionally reported that the person “jumped,” citing solely Cruise Hive because the supply of the knowledge.
The preliminary reviews from Twitter (X) had been to the impact that the passenger was rescued after roughly two hours. AIS monitoring exhibits the cruise ship rotated and finally returned to its earlier location. Yesterday morning, I initially reported that the person went overboard and was efficiently rescued. Right this moment, I awoke to study the unhappy information that the person later died, apparently succumbing to his accidents from the autumn from the 20 story ship. The small print of precisely how and why the person went overboard aren’t recognized. We have no idea whether or not he sustained critical accidents which led on to his loss of life or whether or not the 2 hour delay within the rescue additionally led to his demise.
The physique of the passenger was apparently coated with a blanket when the rescue craft used within the rescue returned to the cruise ship, as photographs posted on Threads by noted cruise photographer Alfredo Zayas Cotto.
The Icon of the Seas is Royal Caribbean’s newest large cruise ship which was launched to a lot ballyhoo earlier this 12 months. Based on the Exploreist, the monster ship “boasts a 17,000-square-foot water park with six waterslides and 7 swimming pools — together with the 40,000-gallon Royal Bay, which is the most important pool at sea — and Absolute Zero, the most important ice skating rink at sea.” To our information the Icon of the Seas isn’t geared up with a state-of-the-art computerized man overboard system which can have led to a rescue quicker than two hours.
Based on cruise skilled Dr. Ross Klein, who maintains the definitive listing of individuals going overboard and has testified earlier than the U.S. Congress a number of instances relating to cruise ship overboards, this was the 410th particular person to go overboard from a cruise ship (or ferry) within the final 24 years.
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Picture Credit score: Icon of the Seas – Royal Caribbean by way of MarineLink; AIS monitoring – CruiseMapper; Royal Caribbean rescue craft – Alfredo Zayas Cotto by way of Each day Mail.
