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Sunday, November 8, 2015

Passenger Who Fell From Cruise Ship Still Missing, Coast Guard Halts Search!!!!


Oasis of the Seas Cruise

Okay this is some bullshit. On Friday, there was a video of a man falling into the ocean from a cruise ship, I thought they had rescued him, OH HELL NO they didn't!!! This doesn't make any sense. Several people saw him fall, I don't understand why the ship kept going and why no one dropped flotation devices into the ocean to assist him??? Why didn't the ship stop and then launch a life boat or a dingy to go look for the guy? So now the Coast Guard claims it has covered 931 nautical miles in the area where he went in. There should be some kind of alarm or GPS marker located all along the outside walkways so that if someone sees someone else fall overboard, they can hit one of the alarms or sensors right away and then the Captain will know exactly where the person went into the water.

Anyway, what had happened was, in the wee morning hours of Friday, on the Oasis of the Seas ship, a German man had fallen overboard and for a few seconds b4 he fell into the Atlantic ocean down in the Caribbean, he was hanging onto a life boat's rigging. "Because of you, this happened ... Let go of me! Get off of me!" he shouted in English, before seeming to lose his grip and fall into the ocean out of view. Authorities have yet to identify the passenger, other than to say he is German.

"We would like to extend our deepest condolences to the loved ones and all that have been affected by this tragedy," said Captain Todd Coggeshall, the chief of response management for the Coast Guard 7th District.
The search is scheduled to resume first thing Sunday morning. I think they are too late. Unless a smaller vessel has already picked him up and failed to to notify the authorities, I think dude is dead already. Poor guy. The Atlantic is too cold for him to have survived all this time. If it had been the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, I would say go ahead and keep looking on Sunday, but this guy fell into the freezing waters of the Atlantic. He's either fish food, or he's a Popsicle or both. Sorry. Rest in peace dude. Next time, stay on the boat!!! That's the first rule of cruising, STAY ON THE BOAT for a good time.

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