A cruise ship passenger died after more than 20 hours at sea. The 28-year-old actually wanted to go to the toilet and woke up in water.
NEW ORLEANS – After a massive search in the Gulf of Mexico, people have been rescued Coast Guard rescues a missing passenger from the sea. The 28-year-old fell overboard from the American cruise ship Carnival Whaler the night before Thanksgiving. Alabama man survives more than 20 hours at sea Officials speak of a “thanksgiving miracle.” The rescued ship passenger did not remember falling overboard.
Passenger falls off cruise ship: “I was in the water, no ship in sight”
James Grimes, 28, said in an interview with American television that he did not know how he got into the water. ABC. The 28-year-old has participated in an air guitar competition on board. Then he wanted to go to the toilet. That’s the last thing he remembers. “The next thing I know (…) I lost consciousness. I was in the water out of sight,” Grimes said. He apparently lost consciousness and regained consciousness in the water.
Rescued sailor describes dramatic experience
Alone in the dark, Grimes decided to take it from the water. For some reason he felt that he had survived falling into the water. “So now swim and survive. I believed they would look for me and eventually find me,” says the 28-year-old. “I wanted to see my family and I decided to get out of there. I never accepted that this was the end of my life. I’m 28 and I’m still young and it’s not going to happen,” Grimes said.
Grimes was only a few hours aboard the Carnival Whaler with his family. The ship docked at the Port of New Orleans on Wednesday for a five-day cruise (America) filed for Mexico. The young man was on board a bar with his sister. He also had a few drinks, but was not drunk, Grimes said in the ABC interview. After he failed to return to his room that night, his sister did not report him missing until Thanksgiving morning.
“It scared me…”: 28-year-old describes connection with sea creatures
At sea, the 28-year-old struggled not only against his fatigue, but also against a strange creature. He could see a paddle. “It came to me very quickly. I went down and looked. It wasn’t a shark, I think. But it had a flat mouth and it came up and hit one of my legs and I kicked it with the other leg. It scared me because I didn’t know what it was.. . All I could see was a paddle,” he told ABC.
After a while he saw a piece of wood floating in the water “like a bamboo”. “I chewed it. It was good.” It was nothing but salt water in his mouth. As dusk fell, James Grimes was at the end of his rope. “I was wondering how much longer I had to wait.”
After 20 hours at sea: Coast Guard rescues passenger from sea
At 8:25 p.m. on November 24, a Coast Guard helicopter appeared. A ship crew earlier found the missing passenger about 20 miles (about 32 kilometers) off the coast of Louisiana. Coast Guard footage shows a man moving in the water. “Jayhawk flight crews loaded the man into a helicopter and took him to New Orleans Lakefront Airport to await emergency medical services,” the Coast Guard said in a statement.
“We’re very grateful that this case came to a positive conclusion,” said the lieutenant. Seth Cross, search and rescue coordinator for the New Orleans Coast Guard. The man was in stable condition.
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