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As a Disney Cruise Line ship returned to a Florida port following a trip to the Bahamas, a father raced to rescue his daughter after she fell overboard June 29, according to multiple passengers onboard.

“A little girl fell overboard and her dad jumped overboard to try to save her,” passenger Dewayne Smith wrote on Facebook after the incident. “Man overboard calls went up immediately. The Disney crew went into action asap. Lots of praying folks on this ship!”

He added, “Both the little girl and dad were both successfully rescued!”
 

Source: https://www.eonline.com/news/1419285/dad-rescues-daughter-who-fell-from-disney-cruise-ship

 

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Lord Mayhem

What a traumatic and scary experience...the only positive is this happened during the day so itbwas easier to find and save them

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Controversiaga

I thought the dad placed the girl on the railing to take a picture of her and that’s how she fell :fail:

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58 minutes ago, SharkmanthaC said:

Man overboard calls went up immediately. The Disney crew went into action asap. Lots of praying folks on this ship!

Trained personnel did their job, but God was the reason they got saved. Right……

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alecks

Ok but that statistic about cruises only successfully rescuing 48 out of 212 people that have gone overboard in the last 10 years is INSANE

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SharkmanthaC
1 hour ago, Controversiaga said:

I thought the dad placed the girl on the railing to take a picture of her and that’s how she fell :fail:

I saw this rumor on TikTok too. Not sure if it is true. 

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1 hour ago, alecks said:

Ok but that statistic about cruises only successfully rescuing 48 out of 212 people that have gone overboard in the last 10 years is INSANE

I mean it makes sense but also so scary. I’m sure some people hesitate to take cruises because of it but seems like a small percentage of the amount of people taking cruises. We also know some of these people were making poor decisions or the reason they went overboard was by someone’s choice. 

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River

This girl is so dramatic omg lol

Making a whole cruise trip about herself.. like chill, it's just a bit water.

 

So sploosh your juice all over me you Riverboy
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alecks
30 minutes ago, SharkmanthaC said:

I mean it makes sense but also so scary. I’m sure some people hesitate to take cruises because of it but seems like a small percentage of the amount of people taking cruises. We also know some of these people were making poor decisions or the reason they went overboard was by someone’s choice. 

Oh yes! I’d assume a good many of the people that go overboard are likely drunk as well so I guess it does make sense, but still so jarring. Open water is so scary to me. 

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Juanlittlem

No experience in cruises but Ive experienced cruising and it is dangerous so Im glad the girlie is safe!

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10 hours ago, Controversiaga said:

I thought the dad placed the girl on the railing to take a picture of her and that’s how she fell :fail:

according to witnesses, this is what happened
One witness described the “horrific" scene, saying the child fell from a railing: "She was sitting on the rail, and he wanted to take a picture, and she fell off," Gar Frantz said. 
"We spoke to one of the crew members, and she said that the little girl was in the area she wasn’t supposed to be in, and she fell" said another passenger
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20 hours ago, Controversiaga said:

I thought the dad placed the girl on the railing to take a picture of her and that’s how she fell :fail:

How did she fall? Im like how does that even happen :air:

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20 hours ago, alecks said:

Ok but that statistic about cruises only successfully rescuing 48 out of 212 people that have gone overboard in the last 10 years is INSANE

Well when you contextualize it it's actually pretty impressive.

Disney cruises alone service millions of guests a year. If they've only managed to have 212 people go overboard over the last decade, and even managed to rescue a quarter of them, that's damned impressive.

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46 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Well when you contextualize it it's actually pretty impressive.

Disney cruises alone service millions of guests a year. If they've only managed to have 212 people go overboard over the last decade, and even managed to rescue a quarter of them, that's damned impressive.

I don’t think that stat is just Disney. I think it’s all cruises. Which makes it even more impressive. 

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1 hour ago, PartySick said:

Well when you contextualize it it's actually pretty impressive.

Disney cruises alone service millions of guests a year. If they've only managed to have 212 people go overboard over the last decade, and even managed to rescue a quarter of them, that's damned impressive.

 

1 hour ago, SharkmanthaC said:

I don’t think that stat is just Disney. I think it’s all cruises. Which makes it even more impressive. 

I agree when you put it that way! The odds of going overboard are suuuuper low but once you’re in the water, it’s not looking good 😅

Such an impressive recovery by the Disney team though. I definitely would not be able to tread water 20 mins in the open ocean so I’ve gotta give that man his props too! 
 

Although I’m seeing more and more reports he had his daughter sitting on the railing before she fell. 😩 

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