There’s been a lot about this in the news lately. ‘Passenger overboard on the Independence of the Seas’ (December 31st) which followed reports a couple of days before of ‘Passenger overboard on Adventure of the Seas’ (December 29th).
When the Independence story was first reported, it was said that the man ‘fell off the ship’.
How does one ‘fall off a ship’? It’s not easy! There’s no balancing involved when on a cruise ship. You must be doing some pretty impressive acrobatics to fall off. A lot of the time it’s scaremongering by the news channels.
90% of the people that ‘fall’ off a ship actually jump. Their reasons for doing this will probably always go unknown.
The other 10% are usually drunk and pratting about or doing something they shouldn’t be.
On checking the ‘Man Overboard List’, here are some of the notes: