Posted on 06/30/2025 8:44:50 AM PDT by V_TWIN
They have that and they used it. I guess the dad and girl didn't see them or couldn't get to them.
Although it doesn’t happen very often, I’m wondering why cruise ships don’t have a faster way to deploy a lifeboat. 20 minutes would be a killer in cold water.
Did anyone witness the father place the girl on the rail or is it a shipboard rumor?
20 minutes is way beyond acceptable
We used to train 8 minutes treading water for life saving training and we were very fit kids
That was in 75 deg bay water
It was tough
We were also told to not get in. About without life preservers
Bay constable kept an eye on things. Lose your privileges w any infraction
That kept the wise asseest derelicts I hung out with out of the business of neglect and dope behavior
This is going to be a problem
These days, they could use a drone. It should be standard equipment, and the first cruise line to add it will make the others look like slackers.
Yes, you clearly know better than the 34m people who went on a cruise last year, and every year. Thank goodness we have you here to Virtue Signal that only you love your children, and the rest of us are ignorant yokels for not living every moment of our lives wrapped in bubble wrap. We bow down to your obvious superiority.
Well, then the father is a complete fool. I hope his wife divorces him and keeps the child.
We took my grandsons , who were 9 and 10, on a cruise years ago. My daughter couldn’t stress strongly enough how we had to watch the 10 year old, a daredevil. We never had a problem but I was a little on edge. The daredevil is now 23 and has calmed down.
Oh. The dad will never go out without a life vest ever again
The rest of the intercom announcement was “Mr MOB...port side. Hard left rudder”
Hells bells, I’m not getting any boat/ship pics to come up.
“The rest of the intercom announcement was “Mr MOB...port side. Hard left rudder””
Since you responded to a cartoon I don’t think you realize that “hard left rudder” would be used to swing the stern away from the MOB.
We were taking a power squadron course and the instructor told this story, actually played the sequence which was on Sixty minutes.A Canadian family had their sailboat out on the Potomac on a warm March day, mom, dad and two young girls, three and five. The dad was a high ranking Royal AF fighter pilot, working at the pentagon. They were getting ready to go in and one of the kids said they had to use the head, so they untethered her and let her go below. Somehow she went overboard but did have a vest on. The dad immediately jumped in after her, leaving the mother and other daughter on the boat. The mother had zero boating experience and no knowledge of operating the marine radio. The dad swam to the girl after a struggle, he was able to hold her out of the water. The mom was attempting to navigate to them but was moving rapidly away under sail. So the mom goes in after them, leaving the other child alone and tethered. Fortunately, someone on shore saw this and radioed the Coast Guard. They were all rescued, but the little girl had been in for at least thirty minutes and had severe hypothermia. When the dad was interviewed he said, if anyone would have told me this is how I would react to an emergency, with my experience, I would have told them they were nuts. But all I could see was my daughter, struggling in the water and everything else went out the window.
Same here...
Saw it in another article. Along with some video clips.
I found it, in that article, finally.
Here’s supposed to be vindication for the dad, but I don’t read it that way at all. What was a 5yo doing on such a railing? (Though I suppose it wasn’t at the moment of a dad’s photo op, given that the mom had to tell him she had fallen overboard.)
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