Posted on 11/09/2026 8:13:15 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A crew member aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship was rescued by three fishermen after going overboard miles off Newport Beach Friday.
The cruise ship departed from San Pedro on Friday and was headed to Ensenada when the crew member went overboard.
According to the fishermen, they were about 20 miles offshore when they spotted the man floating on his back in waters near Catalina Island. They said the man appeared to be depleted of energy when they pulled him aboard their vessel.
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Had dinner with Sean last Friday night, the day it happened. What a story to tell...
Was he playing out of key and they threw him overboard?
Why does it matter that he’s a Pianist?
Would the rescue mission have gone any differently had he been the Tuba Man?
Wow, must have been something hearing it first-hand!
We did an Alaskan inside passage cruise on the Ovation of the Seas a couple years ago. I made sure I didn’t go overboard. Nobody else went over, either.
I thought 76 degree water would make you hypothermic pretty quickly. Turns out survival charts often treat water above ~80°F as having essentially unlimited survival from pure cooling. Hypothermia death is slow or avoidable for many people if they can maintain heat balance via body fat, reduced activity, clothing, or still water. Without a life jacket, the main threat is often drowning from fatigue rather than hypothermia itself. With flotation, people have survived prolonged immersions in this temperature range.
I remember reading a water survival tip decades ago that the Navy teaches sailors...you turn your pants into flotation devices, don’t panic, float, slowly come up for a breath a few times a minute.
The guy is lucky he chose a San Pedro - Ensenada cruise to go overboard on. And he chose the “Super El Nino Year,” to boot.
“ Would the rescue mission have gone any differently had he been the Tuba Man?”
If he was the accordion player they would have left him.
“ Would the rescue mission have gone any differently had he been the Tuba Man?”
If he was the accordion player they would have left him.
Lol!
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/newport-beach-fishermen-find-man-treading-water-royal-caribbean-cruise-ship-employee/
Better interview here...
” depleted of energy”? AI written crap. You mean he was exhausted,?
He still had all his clothes on which may have helped the retain a small amount of body heat. Weird thing was he still had his shoes on...Who swims/floats for nine hours, keeping their shoes on?
Wonder if he’ll swear off the sauce...at least while on the ship?
How about if he was the bagpipe player?
Heard a joke years ago from someone with the bad habit of playing bagpipes.
Seems there was a gentleman who was depressed about his playing. He decided to ditch his pipes, so he got in his old junk pinto, put his pipes in the back seat, drove to a bad part of town. He parked at a convenience store and walked away with the car still running. He went back an hour later to make sure the car was gone. Not only was it still there, still running, but there was another bagpipe in the backseat!
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A person can only tolerate listening to Billy Joel’s song Piano Man so many times in a night.
Considering the outcome, this person may call these particular pair of shoes his lucky charm.
Might have been suicidal and simply jumped at 2:30 am. Its been reported that many people who take the definitive action of jumping, once falling have a strong desire to survive and moments of clarity. Years ago a study was done on the 1 out 100 jumpers from the Golden Gate Bridge who survived and many reported that moment of clarity and wish they had not jumped. Wonder if this man has a similiar experience. Sadly some who had the miraculous survival went on to commit suicide.
“Would the rescue mission have gone any differently had he been the Tuba Man?”
yes, cause the Tuba Man did no survive the black thugs that beat him to death, and did almost jail time.
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