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 in the beginning 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 said that the passenger “jumped/fell” overboard or just “went overboard.” The New York Publish additionally reported that the person “jumped” and cited unnamed “officers” because the supply of the conclusion. The Unbiased newspaper additionally said that the passenger “reportedly jumped” in keeping with the New York Publish, however once more cited no eye witnesses or closed circuit cameras as sources of the conclusion. The U.Okay.’s Day by day 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 circled and finally returned to its earlier location. Yesterday morning, I initially reported that the person went overboard and was efficiently rescued. As we speak, 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 will not be recognized. We have no idea whether or not he sustained severe accidents which led on to his demise 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 pictures posted on Threads by famous cruise photographer Alfredo Zayas Cotto.
The Icon of the Seas is Royal Caribbean’s newest big cruise ship which was launched to a lot ballyhoo earlier this 12 months. In keeping with 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 data the Icon of the Seas will not be geared up with a state-of-the-art automated man overboard system which can have led to a rescue sooner than two hours.
In keeping with cruise professional Dr. Ross Klein, who maintains the definitive listing of individuals going overboard and has testified earlier than the U.S. Congress a number of occasions 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 through MarineLink; AIS monitoring – CruiseMapper; Royal Caribbean rescue craft – Alfredo Zayas Cotto through Day by day Mail.