Some parents did that to their kid at the Pittsburgh Zoo. The kid fell into an enclosure of wild dogs and was killed. The parents sued the zoo.
That would be so if true. Where’d you hear that? Social media?
The terror that little girl felt must have been terrible.
If the camera-rail story is true dad should be prosecuted, the line sues him, and the news runs the full story front page with his picture.
I see 2 things wrong with this. 1. How did the girl fall? Shouldn’t be able to unless she was held over the rail and dropped, probably accidental, but stupid nonetheless. 2. It took 20 minutes to rescue them? I would think someone would at least throw a life raft.
He’s a hero because he righted the wrong and he loved his daughter.
“...the 4th deck...”
That’s a bad fall. And the water isn’t soft.
Treading water means no life preserver
I have done 55+ cruises on several cruise lines. There is no way one can fall off the ship, unless one is stupid to climb the 5 foot high railing.
There was only one instance when a young woman fell off the ship during my voyages. She was very lucky, her boy friend saw her fall and alerted the ship immediately. The ship was cruising at slower speed than usual because we were ahead of schedule. And it was a moon light night. The ship stopped, they sent out search boats, and found the woman!
I once met the captain on a Carnival Ship and asked him about people going overboard. Apparently, they have a very sophisticated system to handle it. First, all sides of the vessel are swept by some type of radar which alerts the bridge if someone falls overboard. An officer then pushes a button on the bridge which releases a lighted dye cannister to help relocate the spot. Then, a computer program takes over and plots an efficient course to bring the ship back to the where the person should be, given the winds and current.
4th deck will be about 30-40 feet above sea level. Definitely painful if you go in on your belly or back.
If true, what is worse is that his daughter may always be reluctant to have her father place her on a high object, even if she never has a nightmare about it.
“I better try and save her, since I set her on that railing for a Selfie. If I don’t save her, my Wife will kill me!”
Buoy oh buoy, at least it ended well
This is a children’s cruise line. I would assume Disney Cruises would foresee children climbing near railings and some parents not exercising caution for photo ops near railings. Seems to me, with that very real risk in mind, the railing plexiglass should be a minimum of 7 feet high. Hard to see how this little girl would have fell if that were the case
They won’t give you details in the news anymore. From one of the pictures I would say the girl was 8-11 years old.
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.
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.)