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Hero dad dives into sea to save daughter who fell from Disney Dream cruise — treading water for 20 minutes before they’re pulled to safety
nypost.com ^ | June 30, 2025 | Patrick Reilly

Posted on 06/30/2025 8:44:50 AM PDT by V_TWIN

A fearless father jumped off a Disney cruise ship when his daughter fell overboard — miraculously getting hold of her and then treading water for around 20 minutes before they were both rescued.

The Disney Dream was heading from Florida to the Bahamas on Sunday when an alert suddenly announced loudly, “Mr MOB … port side,” referring to “man overboard,” video of the drama show.

“A girl fell overboard from the 4th deck & her dad went in after her,” fellow passenger Kevin Furuta posted on Facebook.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bahamas; disney; disneycruise; disneydream; florida; manoverboard; mob; overboard

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This article doesn't mention it but I'm hearing the dad put the little girl on the railing for a photo op and she fell.....if that is indeed the case this guy is no hero in my book.
1 posted on 06/30/2025 8:44:50 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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2 posted on 06/30/2025 8:47:09 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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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.


3 posted on 06/30/2025 8:48:43 AM PDT by Varda
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That would be so if true. Where’d you hear that? Social media?


4 posted on 06/30/2025 8:50:34 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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“A little girl fell overboard and her father jumped in to save her … apparently the dad sat her on the railing!” passenger Mary Ann Sutherland added in a separate post on Facebook.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/caught-on-camera-disney-cruise-terrifying-horror-as-child-falls-overboard-fathers-life-risking-move-stuns-all/articleshow/122161896.cms


5 posted on 06/30/2025 8:53:07 AM PDT by Rio
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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.


6 posted on 06/30/2025 8:53:56 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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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.


7 posted on 06/30/2025 8:53:59 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
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He’s a hero because he righted the wrong and he loved his daughter.


8 posted on 06/30/2025 8:54:18 AM PDT by TurkeyLurkey ( )
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“...the 4th deck...”

That’s a bad fall. And the water isn’t soft.


10 posted on 06/30/2025 8:56:09 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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Treading water means no life preserver


11 posted on 06/30/2025 8:56:16 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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Thanks!


12 posted on 06/30/2025 8:56:17 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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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!


13 posted on 06/30/2025 8:56:22 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (TERM LIMITS IS THE ONLY WAY TO STOP CORRUPT CAREER POL ITICIANS. York )
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No my wife saw it in another online article but she can’t remember the source.


14 posted on 06/30/2025 8:58:29 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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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.


15 posted on 06/30/2025 8:58:57 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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Many cabins have balconies which are away from water. There is solid surface underneath such as board walk or other extensions. If one is on more than 2 floors higher, one will die instantly from the fall. Many ships have 15 floors.

Nobody should ever climb the 5 foot high railing and sit on it.


16 posted on 06/30/2025 9:01:58 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (TERM LIMITS IS THE ONLY WAY TO STOP CORRUPT CAREER POL ITICIANS. York )
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Rio posted the link above.


17 posted on 06/30/2025 9:05:15 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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4th deck will be about 30-40 feet above sea level. Definitely painful if you go in on your belly or back.


18 posted on 06/30/2025 9:06:12 AM PDT by PGR88
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Very interesting!


19 posted on 06/30/2025 9:08:14 AM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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“apparently” ... so, she didn’t see it herself?


20 posted on 06/30/2025 9:14:36 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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