What Happens If You Fall Off A Cruise Ship?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.พ. 2022
- In this video, we investigate what happens when someone falls overboard from a ship. We look at the immediate actions taken by the bridge team, as well as subsequent man overboard manoeuvres and search patterns.
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The scariest thing this taught me is that only 5 minutes after falling overboard you’d be a mile away, or functionally impossible to spot with only your head above the water
To be fair, that assumes you're not moving.
That's if you know how to stay afloat, and not drown in the first minute.
And if seas are not calm, the waves will obscure you from view.
@nam vu A very good approximation compared to ship speed? Unless you mean things can get even worse in case of currents.
@@LongTran-em6hc you can't swim or something? He's talking about 5 mins here.
As a general rule of thumb: you probably want to avoid falling off a ship.
Bloody clever
That's no fun though
On a cruise ship, alcohol is generally involved.
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I think the only time I'd rather be in the water would be in a deteriorating fire at sea type situation. I'd rather freeze or drown than burn
@dan j If you dislike boats so much, why on earth are you watching this channel,? It's *entirely about ships and boats* the name should give you a clue.
My biggest fear is being lost at sea at night
When I was on a cruise a month ago I would see into that void of night all around us and be scared beyond anything I’ve ever felt
Deez Nuts
I imagine the feeling of quietly falling and people only realizing hours later, it would be a slow and horrifying death
How terrifying
Being surrounded by water on all sides miles and miles and miles away from any solid land is frightening. Oh, especially at night.
Don't think anything will ever convince me a cruise is a good idea. Too many variables. 😬
@@LoddyDah you have way better chance of dying in a car accident in 1000 separate lives than dying on a cruise😂
Imagine falling off a ship at night in the middle of the ocean. The thought terrifies me
sheeit, as someone who took a cruise once (2007, on the largest Norwegian line ship at the time; didn't really care for it, though my wife and son loved it...too much like a weird floating mall vibe for me) the prospect of falling off in the middle of the _day_ is horrifying af! I remember walking around the deck while underway and the speed and power and height were inhuman. ain't no surviving it imo, unless someone is amazingly lucky(?), in which case they are the floating in the middle of the terrible terrible ocean with no cover and the merciless sun beating down. not a good way to die, and that's about all you can hope for. 😱
BUDDY SYSTEM ALWAYS!!
I worked on ships for 11 years and on my last contract, one of our cooks, a guy from Chile who I had seen around in the crew bar drinking alot in the weeks beforehand, jumped off the ship to commit suicide. He had taken all his clothes off in the elevator and left his phone, room keycard and few other items on the deck where he jumped, and he died out there somewhere in the ocean between Ushuaia, Chile and Antarctica.
Very sad. I decided to take a break from cruise ships since then and then COVID hit and we all had to anyway, havent gone back since. The thought of what his last moments were like since he quite possibly survived the jump still haunts me to this day.
@@DrummerJacob
Being stuck in the middle of the ocean is one of my worst nightmares. The thought of looking down and not seeing anything other than infinite darkness really terrifies me.
Imagine being pushed overboard. Happens more often than you think. Husband wants to get rid of wife situations.
When I was ~10 years old I went on a cruise ship with my parents and sister. In the evening when it was already dark outside, I had the great idea to climb over the balcony of our children's cabin, to then climb over to my parent's balcony and suprise them by knocking on the window. Back then I didn't understand why my parents got so upset about it. Thinking back that's a bit scary now ^^
Oh my gosh
That's it, you are grounded. Go to your room, now.
😬
Holy crap they must have needed new underwear after you pulled that stunt 🤣
OMG, Thank god you are safe.
I am in the Navy, and when we are at sea, we all carry a small device called a MOBI. When it hits the water, it automatically triggers and blinks with a bright LED, and it also sends a beacon signal that the ship can pick up, with the identity number of who fell over along with GPS tracking. We perform Man overboard drills all the time! We normally hang it around our neck.
How new is this? I have some friends that served in the early 2000s and they didn’t mention anything about it
I’m glade you told me that
that’s smart
would probably be too expensive to provide for all crew members on a ship carrying 10,000 people. Plus no way you can police that and someone drunk who goes MOB probably won't even be carrying it on his person.
@@Bradgilliswhammymanjust give it to passengers with their room key and take it back once they’re leaving. Put it on a bracelet or something similar and put penalties if a passenger is caught without it - honestly some would cry about it at first but seems like fairly easy to implement.
Honestly, the scariest part about these situations for me is the possibility to get sucked into the blades of the ship. It would be awful because you could know it’s coming and have nothing to do about it.
oh no thats actually quite the good outcome realistically. You get a fast death. Chances to get a mob back are none to slim at most. Imagine the sea state just a couple feet of wave hight and you will disappear because your too small. If you fall you better hope its day time else dead. You better hope it aint shark infested water like the kid that jumped from the cruisship recently. And time is of the essence if they aint finding you in about 30m max (pre requisite is if the water is even warm enough else 30m is all you get if they find you or not) i would just start crying in the water and well think about if i can somehow kill myself after the first day. Im not even sure what kills you first dehydration or exhaustion. I want to solo sail in a couple years and just the thought about going overboard alone are scary as fuck. Thats also why i would take the necessary safety measures epirb, raft, harnesses at all time depending on weather condition, good railings instead of those shit lifelines and so on.
That’s what dead is all about!
That’s honestly the best way to go out rather than the slow drowning in the sea.
Or sharks!
big ships have a strong current below it if you get close to the edge of it
My story is I actually got thrown over board when I was 8 because there was a party on the top deck, as everyone was dancing I got pushed off but I landed on the lower deck and landed on top of people. Scary enough, I landed right next to the railing, and was about to slip through the gap that was wide enough. But I crashed into it horizontally with my body. If it was vertical I would have slipped right into the ocean at night.
Wow this cray, I wouldn’t this would happen in a cruise cause there will seriously precautions
So you didn't actually get thrown overboard, you fell from one deck to another.
actually?
@@stevenschnepp576your lame tbh
Where were your parents?
Gosh that's got to be a good feeling, being told that the content you make is good enough to help the next generation of mariners.
Despite how good and accurate content is.
No mariner in training should seek education on online videos
@@ImRandomDude Not solely, but they can be useful tools.
@@ImRandomDude These videos will surely not be used to get someone certified or anything like that. But they are useful to present a specific topic in a very interesting way which is very important, especially nowadays when the attention span is shorter than ever. Look at it as an introduction to a specific subject after which a future mariner will naturally look into more specifically reading proper books, publications, conventions etc.
@@ImRandomDude It's also very good for physics problems. I know my high school physics teacher would have loved to use this channel for teaching.
Yep the channel is so good that now I’m marinated
The cheap flashlight I had in my pocket saved me after getting thrown from a boat at night. Even with a weak battery the strobe function was how I was found. Just something to consider.
Were you pushed from a boat or was it an accident? More importantly, was it an ocean or a sea or a river? And do you know swimming and were able to stay afloat?
@@badbadrobotrobot959 Boat ran aground near an inlet with an outgoing tide. My father made my sister and myself take swimming lessons when we were young and later take classes to get lifeguard certification with CPR and basic first aid. Hatteras Inlet on the east coast of the US is where this happened and if you don't know the channels it's very easy to run aground hence it's name The Graveyard of the Atlantic.
@@tihspidtherekciltilc5469 Edge of the Atlantic. Saw some pictures and still seems scary.
Many people here have been talking about being rescued a little while later or a few hours later. My question is, what are the chances of a person like me who knows zero swimming if they fell in a place like that inlet or a sea(even if it's calm)? If people were afloat for a couple of hours, then is it automatically understood that they know a bit of swimming and thus, were able to stay afloat?
@@badbadrobotrobot959 Depends on many things like water temperature, wearing a life jacket, did a call for help go out and so on. If no one knows to look for you then it probably won't end well.
@@badbadrobotrobot959 learn how to swim, or stay off of boats. But seriously, learn how to swim.
This video might make it all seem less stressful but believe me when I say you vanish. There was a large lantern decoration that fell off a cruise ship I was on during the middle of the day at sea. When it hit the water you can clearly see it was floating. We kept our eye on it and within a matter of 5-10 seconds it was barely visible. Even during the day it's like a needle in a haystack, and at night, forget about it, there's whitecaps everywhere.
To get my leisure sailing licence we had to practice "man overboard" situations. Now this is for inland waters, lakes and such, the boat was around 30 feet and we used a couple of its fenders that were white. Gone. So. Quick. Even though a small-ish sailboat is so much more maneuverable than a large cruiseship with more time for reaction! In the sunlight the reflection makes it harder to keep track, if it's very windy, obviously it's the waves. Certainly makes one reevaluate a couple things.
On my first research expedition to the open ocean (I’m a marine biologist) one of the crew members told me that “Falling off a ship is as deadly as falling off a skyscraper… it just takes longer.”
Every time I’m on a cruise ship, I can’t help but think how traumatic it must be falling off a ship at night - absolutely horrendous!
If you're lucky you'll see the most stars you've ever seen.
Why yes, knowing how statistically low the successful rescue of night MOB's , makes the thought of it horrendous.
for this reason everyone in a ship deck should wear floating jaket and a light
Agreed. Was just on a cruise and stared out into the pitch black nothingness thinking people have fallen into that. Sent chills down my spine.
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I'm a flight attendant. The thing I'm scared of the most is ditching. Those in water trainings are useless unless you're found quickly (providing you survived initial impact). I guess falling over from ship is also pretty harsh but probably you still have some chances...
Same reason a lot of sailors didn't know how to swim there's really very little point unless you're really close to land.
Some of those cruise ships you could be high up. It would be like falling from 4 or 5 stories. The fall itself could kill you, insure you severely or knock you out. Cold water shock is a big element as well. Best not to play any games near the edge.
@@mralekito I would say a MOB situation could even be worse than a "safe" ditch (à la Hudson River Miracle), as like shown in the video, the vessel is moving away from the target, possibly a long time to even know that the person fell, and the height of the fall itself like you mention is considerable. An airplane ditching will have all the passengers there, which obviously is a lot worse than a single person, but they're all concentrated on the spot with already known position and rescue teams going towards you before you even ditched, with life vests or floaters, plus the emergency slides on a plane work as rafts, also the aircraft is only drifting away or sinking near you, not ~40 km/h away from the man over board.
Ignoring the obvious issue of the 1st impact, or considering it was well controlled, it's quite similar to a vessel sinking.
@@purplefood1 I once spoke with a Navy recruiter. He told me the Navy's basic swim requirement is pretty easy. You need to swim well enough to get away from the propeller, and then just be able to float. Beyond that it really doesn't matter how well you swim because when you are hundreds of miles from anything you will die if you aren't rescued.
@@TwilightMysts Yeah nowadays you'll probably need to know how to swim but especially during the age of sail ships it wasn't as common as people think.
Located your clip today after reading about a child whom fell overboard heading to Sweden on a large ferry/cruise ship and his mother jumped in to get him.
Balls on that mom.
Thanks for the vid!
I remember my wife and I were on our honeymoon on the Carnival Cruise line and at night the waves were always higher I guess because of the change in tide. I decided to walk out onto our little patio area, the only thing separating me from the ship and the ocean was some railing.
It was so ominous and creepy just staring out into the misty darkness over the Atlantic Ocean. Only being able to catch a glimpse of the waves about 100 feet out from the reflectivity of the illuminated lights on the ship. As the ship was rocking up and down against the waves it suddenly occurred to me, if I were to slip and fall over, the likelihood of my survival was slim to none.
No one would see me if my wife was unaware of me being out there. I would most likely get sucked down by the vortex of the large propellers, or drown from not being able to tread in that deep of water without a life raft. All alone, in total darkness, attempting to tread in the vast abyss of the ocean.
Mother nature's destruction of me was very unsettling at that moment, so I decided to slowly back away, close and secure the sliding door, and head downstairs to the all you can eat pizza bar. I didn't feel too comfortable about revisiting our small patio anymore after that, but I was damn happy about my free pizza.
Didn't ask
@@chrisdawson1776 Eeeeeaaaaaaasy there tough guy.
@@michlo3393 🤓
@@chrisdawson1776 there he is!
@@michlo3393 🤓🤓
My uncle was in the merchant marine. He was lost off the Cape of Good Hope in the late 60's. Went out on deck on a night watch and was never seen again. They did search for him, but nothing.
Wow
I am very sorry hear that. It must have been heartbreaking not to be able to burry or cremate the body at least..
he returned to the sea.may him be in peace.
That's genuinely terrifying and awful to think of, condolences bro.
Did they start the search with Good Hope of finding him?
Over 20 years ago, we had a man overboard in our ferry as my family was heading home for the holidays. Witnesses immediately sounded the alarm, threw a life ring and the ship maneuvered to rescue. All ships within our horizon quickly arrived and started a search pattern. Alas, the person's sister, distraught as she was, told us that her brother had mental issues and witnesses confirmed it was a suicide. My brother spotted the life ring and alerted the bridge but it was sadly all for naught. He had no intention of saving himself. We broke off toward our destination after a few hours with one less passenger than we had. It was hard for a young me to process
Thanks for sharing❤️🩹🙏
Oh shit that's dark
That must be traumatizing
I should try that
@@crylune i normally ignore comments but what? Am I reading this correctly.
Do you mean jumping overboard, delaying thousands of maritime commuters and costing millions in economic delays and losses?
Well, screw the losses. Do you need someone to talk to? I suggest hotlines or professionals but even us internet folk can assure you that even the worst of things will pass and there are always people who love you no matter how weak they are at expressing it.
Please talk to us if you mean to jump.
staring off at the endless void of water around you on a cruise is a whole different feeling
We had a man overboard while in the middle of the pacific. A sailor was doing trash call, as he went to throw the bag a wind was strong enough that he went overboard as well.
We were doing about 23 kts, it was me as the medic and 8 BMs on a RIB in the water within about 15 mins. Took us about 30 to 40 mins to find him.
The reason I bring this up is because there is a danger that was not mentioned. Oceanic sharks tend to follow ships that have large amounts of people, because easy food is dumped overboard. So if you fall overboard try not to panic, and listen, wave your hands early so someone sees you fall over but once you lost sight of the ship, you need to be looking around you in the water and listening for boats and helicopters.
We did find him, he was safe, just really cold.
When I worked on cruise ships 2 people fell overboard around midnight. Unbelievably, around 6am they were both rescued (Grand Princess 2007). Unfortunately this is an extremely rare occurrence.
Why is it unfortunate that people falling off is a rare occurrence?
@@Kingdisco5005 I think what he meant is it's rare for people to survive falling off from a ship.
@@Dreicaba but why is that unfortunate
@@Kingdisco5005 because the chance of survival is super low
@@Dreicaba but why is that a bad thing
It's still almost unbelievable, that my great uncle went overboard TWICE when he was a sailor in the 50s, and survived to tell the tales. The second time did injure him enough (barrel to the chest, which sent him flying) to end his career as a sailor though.
He sounds like a badass.
Gah damn
People back then were built different.
@@theeternalgus9119 He sound fucking unlucky.
@@seesidesummerhouse6112 Your brain is built different for sure.
The chances of survival if you fell from the deck of a cruise ship is around 25%. Water is like concrete when you fall from such a height. Depending on how you land, water temp, your ability to remain calm/swim etc play a huge role.
And sharks
And propellers
When I was 12, about 20 years ago my aunt told me a story about her senior trip where they took a trip to England from America. She described taking a boat across the English channel at night, and it was so dark when she went out she couldn't see, she started walking in a random direction to try to find her door but couldn't, when a classmate opened another door and said her name and asked what she was doing, she told her she was trying to find her way back in, the classmate shined her flashlight and my aunt was about a foot away from stepping off the edge of the boat because there was no railing where she was.... 20 years later and I still think about that.
That just helped me shit n I was struggling
I travelled on Hansa Flensburg (a container ship) across the Pacific in 2009. I noticed on several of the decks decks there were a few white plastic chairs (the kind that are the cheapest form of garden chairs) which struck me as odd until the emergency drill. These were I was told, primarily there to throw into the water if someone was seen to fall overboard. While they might help the person stay afloat, the main purpose was to mark the spot, so that when the ship had turned and returned, it could easily identify a location as close as possible to the casualty. From this, I would say you should throw a life ring yes, but then several deck chairs / cushions etc. as these will be much more visible from a large ship from a greater distance - and will be much more helpful in locating the person in the water than a lsingle life ring. We did also use the white chairs for our 'crossing the equator' barbeque on the deck...
Life ring would be the first priority, but if you have the chance it's probably not a bad idea to throw everything you can that floats into the water. All the life rings, deck chairs, cushions, crates of life jackets, and so on. A large debris field would make the person much easier to spot.
That sounds good until what you throw hits the person and knocks them out.
I cant imagine how painful getting hit by a chair from the deck would feel like.
@@gbladewarrior6884 If it takes you 5s to react, you are already 25m away. If you can throw a chair that far, congratulations!
Were you a passenger or crew? I've always wondered how people are able to hitch rides on merchant or commercial ships. Sounds fascinating
What about carrying a gun? Couldn't you also pop off a few rounds in a PRESUMED AND OBSERVED harmless direction? Get someone there?
I was on a cruise ship not long ago where someone jumped overboard very early in the morning. This was an up to date cruise ship, but still didn't have a way to detect people jumping overboard. It also didn't have complete CCTV coverage, so the alarm was only raised when the man's wife woke up and found out she was alone. By that point there was zero chance of even recovering the body.
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Something I don't see mentioned about search patterns: If the water is flowing in any particular direction (i.e. a current), the search pattern has to take that into account. You still do things like the sector search or whatever else, but you add on the vector for the current so that the sector search moves with the water. If you don't do this, the person will quickly drift out of the sector and you'll miss them.
I think that this video is great, but missing one important detail: as I was told in my basic sailing class, NEVER shout MAN OVER BOARD unless this has actually happened! It is a serious emergency procedure, so don't use this phrase for a joke. Even when training such a maneuver, it is only called "buoy over board maneuver" and the call is "buoy over board" accordingly.
@UpNorth Ok, I didn't know that this rule varies by country.
I was in the US coast Guard for a decade and we always used “Man Overboard!” regardless if it was a drill or not.
I’ve never heard of anything otherwise until this comment.
“Buoy overboard!” ? Sounds like a quick way to get your crew to not take drills seriously.
The video is about what happens _when_ someone goes overboard; it's not about training.
@@grondhero And the replies here are responding to a comment someone made about training. 🤷🏻♂️
Follow along now….
@@equinoxomega3600 I wonder if that's related to possible confusion from buoy in British English being pronounced "boy" instead of "boo-ey" - shouting "boy overboard" wouldn't necessarily unambiguously convey that it was an exercise, especially in a civilian context.
It makes me happy that so much planning is made for a scenario where just one needs your help. I know this is common but I have now realized how cool that is
As an anecdotal thing, I served in the Army and was given a crash course on the Navy and communications. It was drilled into us to say WHATEVER it took to get peoples attention to an emergency and we could sort out the details later.
On my first cruise I determined that no one "falls" off a cruise ship. The railings are way too high. They either jumped or were pushed.
The wash hypnosis is a thing
It would def not be something easy to do on a cruise ship - even if drunk. Much more of a risk on a working ship where you need to be working on deck in storms and rough seas. If I hear about one on a cruise ship I just assume it was intentional.
@@bubba99009 A lot of personal balconies aren't as high. Also some cases of deck chairs + children not considering the danger.
In heavy seas you can still go over board, which is why passengers are not allowed on deck in such conditions.
yeah i was just on a cruise and i agree
The man overboard screaming as he falls is pretty terrifying contrasted against the calm voice over lol
I took my first cruise recently. The thought of falling off at night is terrifying
If you've never been on a large cruise ship, you couldn't even begin to imagine how tall they are and how absolutely terrifying it is looking over and only seeing water with no land all around. Picturing falling from such an extreme height and into water you know is deeper than humans can even travel.... extremely frightening. I can't imagine... how terrifying it'd be to fall knowing no one is likely able to save you and how alone that must feel.
How many people are ever successfully rescued from falling off a cruise ship? And what about at night?
lol, not many! a woman just jumped off a ship in the middle of a fight with ship cops a couple weeks ago, during the day, with hundreds of people watching, tens of liferings thrown to her, the ship immediately stopping and signaling, tens of aircraft searching for days (they were quite close to shore I believe), and the didn't even find her body. 😳
Only about 25% of cruise passengers who go overboard survive
@@jporter5772 interesting, that's significantly higher than i would've guessed...lol, though not great odds.
@@kirkhamandy lol, are we sure that's what they did? i guess it's it's theoretically possible!...but not very likely.
@@douglasharley2440 Ok, so not many. If you fall overboard you are probably done for. I would imagine with ocean currents it would be so hard to find someone. Then add in the probably cold water and your swimming ability. Best not to mess near the side of a ship.
For the people scared of the ocean, i just want to add to it and say that the cruise ships are pretty tall so the impact of the fall would probably hinder your swimming capabilities a bit and cause you to go under.
edit: thanks for all the likes guys and I’m sorry for the truth bomb
Evil. I like it.
Yep... planes are better 💀
Inevitable helplessness comforts a bit.
I would imagine the person dying upon impact. it's like falling from the 10th floor onto concrete.
@@pinkegg3179 The onto concrete effect really only applies after a certain height/velocity is reached.
You can fall from significant heights into water and be fine... it's just there is a limit where you won't be anymore.
True story! I was on a cruise ship to Greece! Thought it was a good idea to hop over the railing to towards where the end of the ship was, instead I fell through two floors of ply wood thinking I was falling in the ocean. Lesson learned never try to cross a railing you should cross
It's a nice idea to basically never be alone when close to a ship's edge, at least even if you somehow fall they can ask for help
Gotta wonder how expensive it'd be to put a radio beacon on those life preservers.
True. With modern technology it’s possible. Hikers and yacht sailors have been using SPOT or PLB radio beacons that send out an SOS and a GPS signal. The SPOT is 6.5 x 2.54 x 8.71 cm and some yacht PLBs are water activated.
Whenever I'm doing the Safety briefings to passengers I make sure they understand the importance of MOB situation and know what to do like throwing whatever they have at hands (that floats obviously) and pass the message to the crew/bridge. I even have them yell "man over board" which makes them more connected to the scenario.
Unfortunately, on cargo vessels most of the time is an intentional jumping in the water either in a form of suicide or homicide. The survival rate of those is near 0% as the missing ones are usually reported the next morning and by that time is impossible to determine the time/position of the fallen person, let alone to rescue it in time.
man overboard!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
rescue them*
@@cs4155 I know in a case like this there are many heavy emotions involved.
But at some point even the most loving mother will give up when little jimmy is out to sea for day 5.
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 That I'm aware of.
What about if a woman has fallen overboard? Lol
Nice to see that I was not the only person with this question in mind.
No nonsense brill video. Best I have seen ever. Clear and highly informative.
Kevin 😚
Just did my inland waterways and coastal regions certificate last year. It's basically the smallest boating license you can have, and therefore we only had the most basic of trainings. But exactly this procedure was one of the most emphasized tasks to learn.
Thanks again for another great vid. It also answered my question on your previous video about your own professional status. Safe sailing.
hey he pushed me!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If I had to guess that is possibly why he said it is because people have been asking him about his professional status
TH-cam algorithm really recommended me this after watching that video of the teen jumping offboard in the Bahamas😭
i still don't understand how that guy who fell off the carnival ship a couple of months ago survived. a damn miracle if i've ever seen one.
I remember one night on the ferry towards Genoa. I was already in my cabin laying in the bunker bed. Suddenly I heard a terrible thud followed by a loud sequence of mechanical noises. My first thought was "ok, get ready for the disaster" and I started putting clothes on again, after few minutes I heard someone banging on every cabin door, and I thought "here it comes", the sound was getting close and finally it came to my door, when I opened a crew member asked me how many people there were booked in that cabin, I answered and he told me to wait until the call, without further explanations, I thought "we're done". Finally we passengers were summoned through the ship speakers in the lobby, where started a call, during which we received the news that there was a missing person. After the check, it was established that a young passenger was missing, while his companions were in the cabin he went out, climbed on the railing and fell of in front of two witnesses, a lady and a teenager boy, they said he looked drunk. I remember how the teenager was in a shock in a corner. I remember the lights on and an orange ring in the middle of the sea. After some hours the ship retook its course, and the guy was never found again.
rip to the drunk teenager
Sounds like he went through the propellers. Probably wasn't much to find.
Sad story 🥺
Sounds like suicide
@@alexanderfretheim5720 Night time rescues of MOB's are very unlikely. Surprise because its completely dark out there, and sight is the only tool that can save you if overboard
Anyone here after seeing the kid in the Bahamas jump off the party cruise?
Yep
No
On a Carnival ship about ten years ago, a passenger jumped over the side following an argument with his wife. The Coast Guard kept us in the search area for over eight hours. He was never recovered as far as we knew. Happened about 2:00am.
Guess she won that argument huh
Damn someone else just commented this same experience. I guess they were there too. Very sad how that can drive someone to their end.
@@Spokentruths725 Though it was 2022 for the other guy. Could be a typo for 2012 though, as that would match with this story here. Very frightening
@@knochi956 different people jumping.
I just want to compliment the editor on adding the screaming of people falling off the ship. 10/10 was perfect. Hope you don't mind me clipping it for my new ringtone.
I think it's easier for cruise liners to just give passengers bracelets with a built-in GPS navigator for the duration of the cruise.Something like the type of magnetic keys that are issued in a water park.
Exactly.
I don't in the slightest doubt that they'd fail to maintain those bracelets.
@@stevenschnepp576 probably that's the reason why they don't exist
They aren't necessary for 99.9% of passengers, why waste the money on them?
an active gps transmitter needs to battery site of a pack of cigarettes to transmit for a year. (at quite bis time intervals, not like every second). they‘d be pretty big or need constant charging.
I'm from Shetland and there have been occasions when people have fallen from the ferry that goes to Aberdeen - it's never ended well that I can remember.
Considering the height of the larger cruise ships and cargo vessels, the impact with the water could easily kill you long before drowning ever would unless you managed to hit feet first and upright like cliff divers do. Odds are good though if you fell off you will be tumbling and will slam into the water at a bad angle either killing yourself instantly or being seriously injured. The injury scenario would be horrifying as swimming will be next to impossible. Which most likely will result in getting pulled under by the ship and shoved through the props since you won't be able to get far enough away before it has finished passing you. If I ever fell overboard and couldn't feet first the impact, I'd hope I was at least knocked out or dead before before the back end of the ship caught up to me. If not, a few moments of drowning followed by being sliced and smashed apart. Hell of a story for the afterlife though.
"How did you die?"
"Fell a hundred feet, got sucked under one of the largest moving manmade objects on the planet. Then got sliced in half by a rapidly spinning guillotine that was bigger than a Greyhound bus."
😂😂😂😂
Jesus... Dark
Scary
Was thinking about the same thing. If you would say just stumble over and land close to the moving ship, not far out, in which way would the current suck you? Downwards and into the ship towards the propeller right ?
Getting sucked under and into the prop is actually how the majority of people died during the sinking of the brittanic. They were lucky enough to sink in some of the warmest waters on earth right next to the coast
The most important thing is make sure you capture it on video so you can upload it to tiktok or TH-cam as a viral blooper. 👍
On my honeymoon carnival cruise in 2005, a women in her 50's (who was with her husband) disappeared sometime after checking in from the 2nd port. I remember her image on every tv for days, the crew doing a detailed ship, and the ship turning hard to starboard, causing the pools to tip out port. The Mexican coast guard came and paced the ship to look. They never found her, it was wild
I wonder if cruise ships nowadays carry drones and have a crew member trained to operate them in a search.
Seems like a non-brainer, given the cost of some of the models.
I used to hear that if you fell over a large ship, you'd die anyway.
It was said that being close to the ship hull, the water sucks down toward the propeller, so jumping off a ship, you should jump as far as possible.
Also, the height of cruise ships is greater than the survivable height of falling into water.
These were things we were told as kids.
Don't know if any of it is true.
I got recommended this at midnight yet I clicked on it and watched every second of it 😘😘😘
I wonder how so many people survive the 10-20 meters all, then the hull suction pulling you under the ship, then the screw vortex ?
A personal trick : to be detected by a ship from afar, and without other recourse, throw water up. The white spray catch the light, contrast with the darker sea (notably at night) and with horizontal movement of the waves, and is much more visible than just the head and arms.
I did not fall overboard a cruise ship, but like to swim 1 or 2 miles from the coast, and use this to be noticed by speed boats coming too clause. They generally slow down at 400-500 meters, even by night.
what? You really swam 2 miles from coast and did not die? how
@@MrSebastian2203 2 mile isnt that far. A friend of mine did swim 5 km competition, and i manaaged to swim at which is around 4 miles.
Well open ocean you very unlikely being seen
@@drunkenpumpkins7401 It takes the average person 1 hour to walk that distance and back. A quick search reveals the average person would take 2 hours to swim that distance. That's practically a marathon. Now whether or not it's far is a matter of opinion, but I'd wager most people would consider that far. They would probably have a hard time doing a quarter of that.
Throw water up does not attract sharks?
That's really cool that this content is used by actual mariners. It makes me feel less weird about loving it despite never having been on the open ocean and never wanting to go on a cruise ship.
I love that the Anderson turn is just doing a 360.
Cool videos also cool u have them multi purpose and provide specific videos on demand thats realy cool
I’ll never forget the day I had to engage a family returning from a cruise vacation, where they lost one of their sons due to falling overboard. I was working for a cable company responsible for upgrading user equipment. When the father informed why they were coming home, at the very same time I was ringing their doorbell, I began to cry and hug him telling him how sorry I was for his loss, and their I was.. hugging and crying with the father of a lost son that I didn’t know from a can of paint, praying for him and his family that God would heal their hurts. My heart goes out to any family that has had to endure a tragedy like this.
My brother died in a split second accident on a beach vacation and my parents had to call the realtor of the rental house to check out in the middle of the week. The realtor rushed over and had to hold my sobbing father who she didn’t know from Adam. They won’t forget you even 50 years later.
@@ravenel2 I’m so sorry for your loss. 🙏🏽😥
I really appreciate the humanity y’all showed in these situations. I remember dealing with my father’s affairs after his unexpected death, and people being very cold. A carpet cleaning company for instance that had just cleaned his home was just “Okay, but when will the bill get paid?” That kind of thing. This was in my early twenties. It left me cynical in a way that still lingers years later.
@@davidl7286You seem self-entitled. You expect the world to bend to your consciousness, to forfeit their values for your comfort/your values - _because feelings._ That seems like self-entitlement.
Can they not have compassion for you - without having to or being willing to take a hit??
Why couldn't you simply pay what you owed them when you owed it?
@@exnihilonihilfit6316Why didn’t you simply end up as a crusty sock when that would have been the ideal outcome for all concerned? The world is full of such mysteries.
When I was about 13 to 15 I was on a cruise to Alaska with my family and my best friends family. We had rooms directly beside each other and for some reason I thought it was a good idea to climb up onto the railing and cross into my friends cabin and surprise them. Turned out my parents were over there and freaked out at me lmao. At the time I didn't understand nor think it was a big deal but after getting older and now watching this video it really puts it into perspective how dumb that actually was. The water from Vancouver where I live and from where boat departed from all the way up to Alaska is freezing cold. I think If I was to of slipped and fell no one would of seen me since no one was in my room and no one in the other room would of known I would of just been adrift and probably died. Pretty crazy looking back how dumb you can be for absolutely no reason.
I saw a comment just like this lol
Guess there's alot of people as dumb as me🤣
Lol just found it🤣 its almost exact same and it was posted in the same month as mine pretty fishy
@@CJmontage101 so who’s the original: you or them?
@Tommy Hofer mine lol maybe his is true also who knows but shits exactly the same and worded similar to
I like how I was thinking about this 7 videos prior and it pops up
Thx 4 sharing
I have done underwater searches for recently drowned, and it's really interesting that the search patterns are very similar to what boats to.
I was just thinking about this a week ago when I rode aboard a ship and looking at the side and thinking "What happens when I fell off on this ship...?" and it terrifies me quite a lot. And now this video has been uploaded, thanks for giving an answer that I have questioned like a week ago😄😄😄
But for what reason would you fall off the ship?
@@johnblaesel5493 youd either be pushed or u purposely jumped off
Anybody else here because the heard about the kid who jumped off the cruise ship due to a dare?
TH-cam algorithm at its best for me
Did they survive?
no@@JABN97
I have a retired navy uncle; he became traumatized at sea. Every time he went up on deck, he witnessed a MOB. He immediately reported it each time, but eventually he just stopped going up top until the end of his career. Since he didn’t need to go on deck for his work. He couldn’t help think he was cursed you see. He saved at least 3 people by immediately reporting their cases. Personally, I think he was lucky enough to be the only witness each time, since it saved their lives. One had been blown overboard silently by jet engines. Another fell from the tipping of rough seas. Each one was relatively silent & went unnoticed by everyone else. But after he saw a man accidentally walk through plane propellers, I think my uncle figured it would be easier for his mentality to think himself as unlucky & started avoiding the deck.
Jesus tap-dancing Christ, what was wrong with that ship's command?
This is fascinating stuff. I remember someone talking about the scariest thing they could ever imagine is falling overboard AT NIGHT. In Melville's "Billy Budd" the cruel sergeant-at-arms views the ocean at night as a terrible place full of monsters, while Billy views the ocean as still and beautiful at night. I suppose the amount of moonlight and starlight might influence that....
But being out in the middle of the ocean all alone would be scary, night or day. When I was younger, the idea didn't bother me, but now I'm older and had a daughter, it seems far more alarming.
On my very first cruise I witnessed a man dive off the back of the ship directly into the ship’s propellers after arguing with his wife for the first 3 days of the cruise. Went to my room about an hour later which was a port side balcony and immediately saw his lifeless body floating in the water about 20 yards away from the ship. Ten mins later the entire port side of the ship watched as the coast guard lifted the body out of the water. First and last cruise for me. Everything about the cruise sucked from the sea sickness to the food to the uncomfortable ass bed. Carnival Horizon Spring Break 2022.
This just happened? Omg so sad. I just came back from a royal Caribbean cruise and my neighbors were arguing too and we were on the balcony floor. Glad nothing like this happened. I was actually shocked at how many people still can’t relax even on vacation.
@@Spokentruths725 I think some of us feel like a vacation makes problems go away. 🤷🏾♂️
Your first mistake was going on carnival. That’s why your experience was so bad. Try an actually good cruise next time, like Norwegian or Royal Caribbean. Don’t let that ghetto ship ruin your entire outlook on cruises
@@isaiahc8390 I’d rather jump off the ship. No thanks.
When you say ‘into the propellors’ I’m Assuming the spinning rotors killed him (meaning the ship was moving) and learning a ship moves a mile in 5 minutes, meaning it travels 30 miles in an hour, I think he’s be a bit more than 20 yards away. And the whole ship worth of people didn’t see it until after an hour passed? And the wife didn’t see anything? And you didn’t say anything? And even if you did it took them over an hour to collect the body? Aka I’m not sure your story adds up. I truly am sorry if I misread anything, I have a habit of dissecting stories like this.
I’m so glad that I ran into this video, in June I plan on breaking my consecutive 12 years of no alcohol streak on a cruise 😅
I havent been on a cruise for some time now but last cruise I went on was a Disney Cruise that was really fun and we had a great time.
A lady fell (or jumped) from the ship I was on at about 3AM. She was four floors straight up from our balcony. Water temp was about 41F and our cruise speed was 19knots. She was never found. It was sad to hear the news and watch the aftermath and search.
Given how tall these cruise ships are, what is the likelihood of someone even making it to the water without serious injuries? Of course add to that the fact that on cruise ships some of the people in that position might be drunk or not in full control of their faculties.
Being drunk makes you more likely to survive the fall. The water being choppy again makes it more likely.
@@jamesbizs Also makes it easier to drown because you're drunk, and alcohol lowers your body temperature so you will freeze to death if not found quickly.
I'd wager the fall would be the number one killer in these scenarios. From two sources I found on google. The almost certain death height for a long fall into water is around 75~80 feet.
@@Mia-ln1zs "The almost certain death height for a long fall into water is around 75~80 feet." Google says that's around 25m. If you search for the world record it's about 58.8 meters (192 feet or so) by some swiss dude.
Depends on how you land, but i don't get where you come to this "almost certain death" conclusion.
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 most people don't dive off hence long fall. They'll probably be tumbling and land in terrible positions. From what I see there's a high chance of water forcing itself up your, butt. In your lungs. Etc. If your not properly braced.
I did see the dive records, but those stressed the importants of technique when intentionally diving from those heights.
This happened on a Finnish cruise line just a few weeks ago. Search parties were called off this monday
Well if your here you just heard the news of that teen who jumped off the boat .
I love the fact that these videos are actually training material. Thanks for sharing them !!
Brilliant explanation. My late father was HMCG and I can remember him working casualties and running search patterns. Spot on stuff.
As someone who has been on 5 cruises, it’s almost impossible to fall off without being deliberately thrown overboard, propping yourself up on the railing for a better view/selfie, or committing suicide.
Cruise ship have a plan for this. Good work on the video.
"If you can't find a life ring throw whatever you can"
*throws someone else overboard because they're all you can find*
Then you gotta throw something else for them too, and if it’s another person you have to throw another thing, and repeat
@@Acroflame "Well, no one left on the ship. In I go!"
if you throw enough people overboard, at least it wont be so difficult knowing where to look XD
Alternatively, throw a hissy fit.
I was on a cruise ship years ago that had a guy jump off half-way between San Diego and Hawaii. I found out that it takes about an hour to stop a big cruise ship and get back to the point where the guy was. They sent a small boat to go find him. People had thrown multiple rings immediately, which were a big help in finding him. Since the guy did it on purpose, I'm sure that he'll never be allowed on a cruise ship again. That added a little excitement to a boring 4-day ocean crossing. 🙂
it shouldn’t take an hour. it take around 8-12 minutes to come to a halt for the largest ships they we have in the oceans. turning and coming back to where you were should take max. 15-20 min, probably even less.
@@BlondeQtie Well, there's theory and there's reality. I'm just reporting what actually happened.
its amazing how much efforts humans put into saving other humans or their bodies even from a purely emotional motivation for it.
Same thought, the idea that so many of these huge ships would spend time which is worth a lot of money just to rescue a single person.. always makes me quite relieved to see people putting a lot of effort into saving other people, who they might not even have seen before
Im sure in the back of their mind, they think about how hard they would want other people to spend searching for for them jf they were in that same position
The cruise ship I worked on had a detachable speed boat. I don't know how quickly it can be deployed, but presumably they'd use that for a man overboard.
My father was in Naval Reserved, and the captain told them if any one of them fail off the ship they are not stopping. Depending on the locations of where you hit water, if you are up around near Alaska etc. such in ice cold water, you'll freeze in a matter of seconds. Or anywhere the world, there is the possibility of getting caught in the ships wake and suck under. There was documentary on the U.S.S. Enterprise after they left port their boatswain mate was missing and did a wide search for him until the admiral told them to give up the search. Finally, instead of doing all those fancy dance routine with the ship, ships, and coast guards. Why not have an on board helicopter.
I'm not a mariner, just here because your content is so interesting and engaging. You are an excellent creator :)
Me and my brothers friend threw himself overboard when he was on a cruise between Stockholm and Tallinn, they didnt start a search until 12 hours later even though our friends onboard reported it at that horrible depresing footage you can see him jump, he was found in the baltic sea 2 weeks later by a fisher, RIP my beloved childhood friend
I was on a cruise back in January and on the deck with the running track, I often thought that if I jumped overboard, nobody would know.
Just before I joined the Queen Elizabeth a crew member (a chef) sadly threw himself overboard in the night (he'd stripped naked to do so) this was before the sensors had been installed tragically. All the correct procedures were put into place once the fact was established but of course he was sadly long gone
I saw another video recently that explained search patterns that the Coast Guard uses that take drift into account. That might be a good topic to cover.
Smarter every day ☺️
That also mainly covered the "sector search" pattern also described in this video... albeit in more detail.
@@unos10 Bizarrely I watched that video one or two days ago. Spooky how the TH-cam algorithm knows !!!
I recognised the radiation symbol ☢ search pattern. Except on Smarter Every Day, the centre point that the ship returns to, moves with the drifting current.
I was on a cruiseship a few years ago with some friends and one night we went outside and looked at the ocean over the railing, it was pitch black and ever since i've been horrified of the idea of having fallen off that night since there was a lot of wind and huge waves
Ships are very loud. Your scream won't even penetrate the air on the way down. You'll fall into the pitch black sea, all alone, and by the time your head pops up out of the water the ship is racing away faster than you can even think. You begin screaming but no one can hear you. No one even knows you're missing. You're left for dead all alone in the middle of the ocean. Sounds delightful.
Short answer: If someone saw it happen, they go into a circling pattern and send a speedboat out to get you. If nobody saw it happen, you die. I've been working on a ship when someone went overboard, more than once actually. The guy who jumped over the railing of his cabin from one of the lower decks came back with little more than a broken nose, and it's rumored he didn't have a broken nose when they pulled him out of the water. But if you fall from higher up, a whole lot of it is going to come down to how you land. If hitting the water knocks you unconscious, that's not looking good.
So basically they had to save him twice so they broke his nose hahaha I love it
@@cs4155 Well maybe he was "resisting" and the broke his nose trying to subdue him. I mean, the cops get away with more than that, and this was far away from prying eyes.
@@mal2ksc I would approve of it if I saw it happen. If you fall once, we'll save you because you are a precious human life. But if you fall twice, then you're just a massive d*ckhead
I knew the guy who went overboard with his wife from the QEII. I think it was some hours before they missed them... but i think that was the idea. A friend of mine was on a frigate in a hurricane when a man went over. The captain told them he was sorry, but it would put the ship in danger if they tried to turn. nice to know people try, but the chances of success? not good.
i remember there was a missing person on a disney cruise ship I was on at night and someone thought they saw someone in the water. we all had to report to different places for attendance and everything was fine, but there were a lot of kids unhappy to be awake at 11:00. That night there was also a really bad storm so I can't imagine someone would have been successfully rescued.
I have absolutely no actual interest in anything regarding ships, maritime stuff or nautical things but i watch this channel because this narrator has such an amazing voice and way of speaking.
This video reminded me when I was a crew member on cruise ships and we had the safety trainings at the beginning of every contract.
I was on a cruise last month and I can tell you that there could possibly be NOTHING more frightening than falling overboard specially at night time in the vast and dark ocean water
Proof?
@@chrisdawson1776 you can't even see anything not to mention the waves crashing against the ship blocking out your scream for help
@@susfactfinder1219 🤓