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Boston Globe
2 hours ago
- General
- Boston Globe
Disney cruise ship rescue team saves girl and father after overboard fall
'Thankfully the (Disney Cruise Lines) rescue team was on it immediately and both were saved!' Furuta said in a post to the Facebook group, Disney Dream Cruise Ship Group. No information has been released about how the girl fell overboard. Advertisement 'We commend our crew members for their exceptional skills and prompt actions, which ensured the safe return of both guests to the ship within minutes,' Disney said in a statement. 'We are committed to the safety and well-being of our guests, and this incident highlights the effectiveness of our safety protocols.' The Coast Guard didn't respond to an email seeking comment.
Arab Times
12 hours ago
- General
- Arab Times
Disney cruise ship rescue team saves girl and father after overboard fall
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla, July 1, (AP): Crew members from a Disney cruise ship saved a girl who fell overboard and her father who jumped in after her. The Disney Dream rescue team pulled the girl and her father into a small boat on Sunday as the cruise ship was returning to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from the Bahamas on the last day of the voyage, according to Disney and passengers who recorded the rescue on video. Passengers were alerted that someone had fallen overboard by an announcement over the ship's loudspeakers, said passenger Kevin Furuta in a social media post. "Thankfully the (Disney Cruise Lines) rescue team was on it immediately and both were saved!' Furuta said in a post to the Facebook group, Disney Dream Cruise Ship Group. No information has been released about how the girl fell overboard. "We commend our crew members for their exceptional skills and prompt actions, which ensured the safe return of both guests to the ship within minutes,' Disney said in a statement. "We are committed to the safety and well-being of our guests, and this incident highlights the effectiveness of our safety protocols.' The Coast Guard didn't respond to an email seeking comment.
Yahoo
15 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Girl falls overboard on Disney cruise ship - with father jumping in after her
A girl who fell overboard on a Disney cruise ship has been rescued from the water - along with her father who jumped in after. Crew members pulled the pair to safety as the vessel was returning from The Bahamas to Florida on the final day of the voyage. A passenger told Sky News' US partner NBC that the child had been sat on the rail of the fourth-floor deck while a picture was being taken. "We watched it, you could see two little things... It was crazy, it was horrific," Gar Frantz said. Another person onboard, Gail Merrick, said she was playing bingo when she noticed a commotion on deck - and witnessed the rescue unfold. "We came to find out that it was a child and then the father had gone in after the child, so we were watching with bated breath basically waiting for what would happen," she told NBC News. Disney Cruise Lines said the pair were "swiftly rescued", adding: "We commend our crew members for their exceptional skills and prompt actions, which ensured the safe return of both guests to the ship within minutes." Read more US news: James Tackett, another eyewitness, said "everyone cheered" when it was announced the father and daughter were safe. His mother Brenda added: "The Disney Cruise Line staff were phenomenal, the crew, everybody was on it. "You could tell they've practiced this, hopefully have never used it before, but they were great. The whole thing was maybe 10, 15 minutes, and they safely got back on board."
Sky News
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Sky News
Girl falls overboard on Disney cruise ship - with father jumping in after her
A girl who fell overboard on a Disney cruise ship has been rescued from the water - along with her father who jumped in after. Crew members pulled the pair to safety as the vessel was returning from The Bahamas to Florida on the final day of the voyage. A passenger told Sky News' US partner NBC that the child had been sat on the rail of the fourth-floor deck while a picture was being taken. "We watched it, you could see two little things... It was crazy, it was horrific," Gar Frantz said. Another person onboard, Gail Merrick, said she was playing bingo when she noticed a commotion on deck - and witnessed the rescue unfold. "We came to find out that it was a child and then the father had gone in after the child, so we were watching with bated breath basically waiting for what would happen," she told NBC News. Disney Cruise Lines said the pair were "swiftly rescued", adding: "We commend our crew members for their exceptional skills and prompt actions, which ensured the safe return of both guests to the ship within minutes." James Tackett, another eyewitness, said "everyone cheered" when it was announced the father and daughter were safe. His mother Brenda added: "The Disney Cruise Line staff were phenomenal, the crew, everybody was on it. "You could tell they've practiced this, hopefully have never used it before, but they were great. The whole thing was maybe 10, 15 minutes, and they safely got back on board."
Yahoo
20 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Passengers recall 'miracle' rescue after child and father fall overboard on Disney cruise
A trip aboard a Disney Dream cruise nearly turned into a nightmare this weekend after a child reportedly fell overboard and her dad jumped in after her. Both the child, reportedly age five, and her father were saved, according to multiple media reports and other passengers aboard the four-day cruise on a Disney Dream ship. Shannon Lindholm, a passenger on the ship, says she didn't see the fall, but she did watch the rescue happen. The ship was at sea, on its way from the Bahamas to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., when the girl fell in on Sunday, Lindholm told CBC News. "We heard the M.O.B. call on the intercom," Lindholm said, referring to code for "man overboard." "Then, we watched the rescue from the fourth floor. Disney did a wonderful job. It was fast and amazing," said Lindholm, 38, from Houston. Lindholm shared a photo of the rescue boat going into the water. She told CBC that within five minutes, the child and her dad were back on the cruise ship. "The man rescued was giving a thumbs-up sign as their small boat was approaching the cruise ship, and everyone cheered on the ship as they boarded back on," she said. "Miracle, for sure." CBC News has reached out to Disney Cruise Lines for confirmation, but they have yet to respond. In astatement to USA Today, a Disney spokesperson said the crew "swiftly rescued two guests from the water." "We commend our Crew Members for their exceptional skills and prompt actions, which ensured the safe return of both guests to the ship within minutes. We are committed to the safety and well-being of our guests, and this incident highlights the effectiveness of our safety protocols," the statement continued. Janice Martin-Asque, another passenger on the ship, says she was on the third deck when she heard the announcement over the intercom around 11:30 a.m. Sunday. But she didn't know what "M.O.B." meant, she said, so she and her family went up to Deck 11 to grab some snacks. "That's when we saw a bunch of people crowded up over the railings," Martin-Asque, 42, of Kissimmee, Fla., told CBC News. "My daughter asked someone what had happened, and someone said a kid had fallen overboard and that the dad jumped in after her." Martin-Asque filmed the rescue, which she describes as "intense," "terrifying," and, "a miracle." The footage shows a yellow rescue boat drifting toward a figure barely above water, holding a child and bobbing in the choppy sea. When the boat reaches them, the rescuers lift the child into the boat, followed by the man. People can be heard cheering, clapping, yelling "Hip hip hooray!" and muttering, "Oh, my god." WATCH | How AI can speed up search and rescues at sea: In the "Disney Dream Cruise Ship Group"on Facebook, other passengers described the accident as occurring from the fourth deck of the ship. According to the Disney Dream'sfloorplan available on the Disney Cruise website, the fourth deck has a walking track that wraps around the ship. "A girl fell overboard from the fourth deck and her dad went in after her," wrote a passenger Sunday. "Thankfully the DCL rescue team was on it immediately and both were saved," he added. It's unclear how the child fell overboard. There are plexiglass barriers on the decks, according to multiple passenger posts andDisney cruise forums. On the Facebook page, some passengers described the terrified mother yelling from the deck, "She's five and she can't swim!" "It was incredible," Lindholm said of the rescue. It's rare for passengers to fall overboard. According toa report by trade body Cruise Lines International Association, 212 people (both passengers and crew) fell overboard between 2009 and 2019, which they say represents just 0.00004 per cent of passengers and crew. Nearly half, or 48 per cent, were rescued, according to the report. And in every case where the cause could be determined "following a careful investigation, it was found to be the result of an intentional or reckless act." In 2019, an Indianatoddler fell to her death from the 11th storey of a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico. The girl was travelling with her parents, two siblings and two sets of grandparents aboard the Freedom of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean Cruise. Her grandfather was eventually charged in her death. He washolding Chloe Wiegand when she slipped from his grasp and fell about 150 feet to her death from an open window. He said he didn't know the window was open when he lifted Chloe up to it.
