Man Dies After Jumping Off the Side of a Carnival Cruise Ship

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• Heartbreaking video shows cruise ship passenger swimming, fishing with friends week before fatal jump
• The company did not release additional details about the death on the Ultimate World Cruise
• From other local news sites
• Passengers dies on Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Legend ship
• ABC News Live
• Passenger dies after falling from cruise ship balcony onto lower deck, company says

Francel Parker is demanding to know how his underage son was given alcohol on the four-day cruise. Royal Caribbean said it “immediately” launched search boats to look for the 20-year-old and alerted the Coast Guard, which later took over the search. The TikTok video was posted by Parker’s friend, Kaleb Felty, on March 27 and shows Parker beaming on a boat off Florida and splashing around in the shallows. "We are beyond grateful that this case ended with a positive outcome," said Lt. Seth Gross, a Coast Guard Sector New Orleans search-and-rescue mission coordinator. The ship was on its way to Cozumel, a Mexican island in the Caribbean, and was released by the Coast Guard to continue to its destination after the rescue was made.

Heartbreaking video shows cruise ship passenger swimming, fishing with friends week before fatal jump

According to reports, shortly after 1 pm on Wednesday, police received reports that a woman, while at her residence in Pinewood Gardens, ingested a quantity of prescription medication in an attempt to take her life. EMS was called to the scene and transported the victim to the hospital, where she is listed in stable condition. "My brother died Wednesday morning ... on the cruise ship. We have received hardly any information from the cruise line," she wrote in a post on Reddit. "On Sunday, shortly after departure there was a medical emergency involving one of our passengers," the statement from Virgin Voyages read.

The company did not release additional details about the death on the Ultimate World Cruise

"This passenger went over their balcony onto a lower deck, and despite receiving immediate medical attention, has passed away." Virgin Voyages said the incident happened shortly after the cruise ship's departure. The company has not provided details about what may have caused the guest's fall. The Wonder of the Seas, which is 1,188 feet long and features 18 decks, can accommodate nearly 7,000 passengers and 2,300 crew members. Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas is set to break the Wonder’s record when it begins service next year, Insider reported. A passenger has gone overboard on Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world, while it was off the coast of Cuba during a voyage from Florida.

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At the time of the accident, Carnival Legend was on an 8-day, round-trip Eastern Caribbean voyage from Baltimore, themed "Christmas". Ports of call include Nassau, New Providence Island Bahamas (Dec 21st), Princess Cays, Eleuthera Island Bahamas (Dec 22nd), and Cockburn Town, Grand Turk Island, Turks and Caicos (Dec 23rd). According to cruise officials, while there was a man overboard call, that was not an overboard accident. A photo published by Fox News showed several balconies on the cruise barricaded with yellow tape. Another photo showed what appears to be a blue tent set up behind a grey partition and a uniformed person standing nearby. The suit alleges the cruise should have kept a working morgue, inspected it to make sure it was working or checked Jones’ body with reasonable frequency to make sure it was properly preserved.

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"It appears that this was indeed a medical situation that sadly resulted in the death of a guest," Carnival said in Tuesday's statement, per the reports. Grimes was aboard the five-day cruise with 18 of his family members for Thanksgiving. When he didn't return to his cabin that night, his sister reported him missing. Most infected crew members were either asymptomatic or experienced mild symptoms of the virus, but Marilyn Tackett, a 77-year-old passenger from Oklahoma, was admitted to the hospital in Belize and put on a ventilator after experiencing respiratory complications. Days later, she was evacuated to a hospital in Tulsa where she received treatment, but on Aug. 14 her condition worsened, and she died, according to a statement issued by her family on a crowdfunding page set up to help pay for her care. It was the highest number of cases aboard a ship reported since June, when cruises restarted in the Caribbean and United States, and the first death.

Passengers dies on Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Legend ship

On Sunday, the Asia Pacific leg of the voyage began; the ship will pass through Hawaii, Polynesia and Australia. From there, it will continue to other major destinations, including South Korea, Japan, India, the United Arab Emirates and Greece. The trip takes passengers across the seas over 274 nights to all seven continents, over 60 countries and 11 world wonders, including the Taj Mahal in India and the Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil. "A guest sailing on board Serenade of the Seas has sadly passed away," a Royal Caribbean spokesperson said in a statement. For months, Royal Caribbean’s Ultimate World Cruise has captivated the public like a social media reality show, with reports on storms, coronavirus outbreaks, canceled port calls and interpersonal drama.

Carnival Cruise Line, in a statement to FOX Business, said it was "sad to share that we had an incident Monday night." In a statement, Carnival Cruise Line said they were sad to share that they had had an incident Monday night. The passenger and 26 crew members aboard the Carnival Vista tested positive for the coronavirus and the passenger later died. When the Equinox docked in Florida after nearly a week since her husband’s passing, a worker with a funeral home and a deputy with a local sheriff’s office arrived to handle the body, the suit said. Jonathan Mindrum, 36, died on Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas at around 3 a.m.

Passenger dies after falling from cruise ship balcony onto lower deck, company says

The 28-year-old man said he was determined to make it out of the Gulf of Mexico alive, calling it the experience of a lifetime. Get a brief on the top business stories of the week, plus CEO interviews, market updates, tech and money news that matters to you. The ship left Baltimore on Sunday for an eight-day Christmas-themed journey with two stops in the Bahamas and one in Turks and Caicos. Carnival Cruise Line did not respond to FOX Business when asked to comment on that report. For more Carnival Legend incidents and accidents see the ship's CruiseMinus page.

But Robert Jones’ body was not in the ship’s morgue, instead, it was moved to a cooler on a different floor. The cooler, the suit said, was not cold enough to preserve the body which was in a state of severe decomposition, the suit said. “He had a very bright future ahead of him, so losing him is a loss not just to us but to the world,” he said. “We are in the depths of grief about losing Jonathan, and we also have important questions about the circumstances of his death and emergency services provided to him."

The company did not confirm that it was the first death during the voyage, which set sail in December. Excluding suicides, the leading causes of passenger deaths were shown to be unspecified natural causes, cardiac incidents and falling overboard or onto lower decks. In April, a passenger was killed after they fell off a Virgin Voyages cruise and landed on the ship's lower deck.

The passenger, who was traveling with his partner, has not been identified, Cruise Hive reported. The firm said the ship was bound for Hamburg, its first port of call, when the man went overboard. In a statement, MSC Cruises said it was deeply saddened by the news and its thoughts were with the man's family. The man disappeared from MSC Euribia on 16 March, a day after the ship left Southampton on a seven-night excursion. The crew spent about three hours searching the waters using spotlights, small craft and watchers after the ship turned around and retraced its route, according to the site. The unidentified guest went off the 230,000-ton vessel late Tuesday, the second day of its seven-day sailing from Port Canaveral, Florida, Royal Caribbean said.

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Felty posted several other videos of Parker, including one of him hunting with a bow and arrow. In another video he dubbed a “typical Levion moment,” Parker feeds pelicans a fish out of his hands from a boat. "I wanted to see my family and I was dead set on making it out of there. I was never accepting that this is it, this is going to be the end of my life. I'm 28 years old. I'm too young. This is not going to be it," Grimes said. Cruise officials said that while there was a man overboard call, this was not an overboard incident.

“It is important before you go on any cruise, no matter what the duration, to make sure that you are physically fit to sail,” he said. The itinerary on the nine-month expedition includes 65 countries across every continent. Some are run by a few of the 600-something travelers staying on board; others are spectators on land.

Unconfirmed reports suggest that there were at least five instances of an “alpha alpha alpha” alert issued during the voyage. It is also not the first time that a passenger has died on an Atlantis Events chartered cruise, with four such cases confirmed in recent years. Just two days before the MSC crew member disappeared, a 28-year-old Carnival cruise passenger fell from a ship near New Orleans.

Medical staff and crew members attempted to revive the woman, the FBI said. The victim, who has not been publicly identified, was found unresponsive on Carnival Sunshine last Monday as the ship sailed to Nassau, according to a statement released Sunday by the FBI Columbia field office. The boy’s stunned father, Francel Parker, told The Daily Sun he threw six life rings off the ship in hopes of saving his son before the massive vessel was able to come to a stop about 20 minutes later. Parker, of North Port, Florida, jumped off the 11th deck of the Liberty of the Seas around 4 a.m. On April 4, plummeting 200 feet into the Atlantic in front of his helpless brother and father while heading to Cuba and the Bahamas’ Grand Inagua Island, Florida officials said.