A Disney Dream Cruise became a Disney Nightmare Cruise for a dad as he watched his daughter fall from a rail and into the sea below.
As the cruise liner travelled between Nassau and Grand Bahama Island, a passenger saw a young girl fall from the side. She was horrified by the screams as the girl fell four decks to the water below. At the speed she was travelling, hitting the ocean would have felt like a brick.
“It sounded like hitting pavement, nothing like if you jump into a pool, it was so loud,” the passenger told People. Immediately, her dad jumped in after the young girl, with other passengers alerting Disney cruise staff.
The young girl had been sitting on the railing of the Disney Dream liner before she lost balance and fell. Gar Frantz recalled the scene to NBC6. “She was sitting on the rail, and he wanted to take a picture, and she fell off. We were just on that deck. And then you saw them throwing, like, life jackets over the sides and stuff.”
Dad Risks It All To Save Daughter From Disney Cruise Fall
Without hesitation, the dad followed her in, jumping a considerable distance to the water below. Shortly afterward, the alarm for man overboard was sounded, and staff rushed to their rescue. Footage captured from the scene shows the pair being pulled from the sea.
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However, it was touch and go for quite some time, according to another passenger on the Disney Dream cruise. The two were treading water for twenty minutes before the rescue was able to reach them.
“I had to tell my own 9-year-old daughter Harper they were probably gone [because] they usually can’t find people who fall,” a passenger told People. But, in this case, they were wrong, and her daughter won’t have to live the rest of her life traumatised by her mother’s negative and insensitive prediction.
Falling from something like a cruise liner is incredibly dangerous. The ships are huge and take a long time to stop, and the fall is enormous. But thanks to the bravery of the dad, this young girl survived her fall from the Disney cruise.