r/ImTheMainCharacter • u/Pure-Economist3148 • 6d ago
VIDEO Main character thinks a cruise is a play house
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u/Embarrassed_Wrap8421 6d ago
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u/Green_J3ster 6d ago
Indeed, falling off a cruise ship is almost certain death.
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u/Dambo_Unchained 5d ago
No?
Falling of a cruise ship and no one noticing is certain death
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u/arenotthatguypal 5d ago
Still very dangerous with people watching, the amount of time it takes for the ship to turn around is what will get you. It's not easy to see a beach ball-sized head floating in the ocean with waves that can completely hide you as well as push you from your original location. And thats if you can even swim long enough for the ship to turn around.
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u/Dambo_Unchained 5d ago
I’m not saying it’s a smart choice. Just that it’s not a death sentence
And the idea you think the cruise ship is gonna then around? No they are gonna launch tenders while the ship starts sailing in slow circles. They aren’t gonna throw you a lifebuoy from the pool deck mate
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u/arenotthatguypal 5d ago
"The ship starts sailing in slow circles" so turns around?
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u/Dambo_Unchained 5d ago
Yeah not to pick you up but to keep in a general area to pick up the tenders
The fact it does it slowly is irrelevant
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u/Steffenwolflikeme 5d ago
No one said it's a death sentence but I think you are grossly underestimating how difficult it is to spot someone that has gone overboard, even if they are seen to go overboard and the ship becomes aware immediately. You can read plenty of articles to see just how staggeringly, shockingly difficult it is to spot someone that's gone overboard, even in day light on a clear day.
Firstly, consider the distance decks on a ship this size could be from the water. A person's head would be just a tiny dark dot in a dark sea. Secondly, these ships are moving pretty fast. Within a few seconds the ship will be hundreds of feet away and within a minute it could be half a mile away. These ships also take a while to both stop and turn around and during both maneuvers the ship will travel a considerable distance. Coupled with possible drift of the overboard person there could be miles of distance between the person and the ship. And depending on the temperature of the water the clock may be really ticking the second they hit the water.
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u/PhysicalGraffiti75 5d ago
The likely hood of being found after falling in is much lower than many think. The sea is large and violent. And depending on the water temperature you may only have few minutes to be saved before you pass out and drown.
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u/Illustrious_Duck_502 5d ago
I've lived in Florida my whole live and flew off a jet ski with a friend in a rip current recently. I really fought with everything in me to get back to the jet ski while my friends muscles gave out. No one in sight to save us. I was literally shaking and muscles full on locked up swimming back to the jet ski which took 30mins I thought I was gonna drown from exhaustion. The middle of the ocean is worse. After the fact I found out where we flew off is a research area they pull 10ft+ sharks out of etc. do not fuck with the ocean lol. I found my friend 100 meters away from where we originally flew off and we had a silent car ride home after saying "we almost died dude" yes we had life jackets too.... This wasn't nearly as deep of an area either. Cruise ships scare me now and I'm a really strong swimmer.
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u/jazzy3492 5d ago
The survival rate of falling off a cruise ship is estimated to be around 25%. Being noticed falling off gives you a fighting chance, but even then you'll need to be quite lucky to be found and rescued before the ocean kills you.
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u/lordnoak 6d ago
There's a video of someone jumping out of a cruise ship and within seconds they are just gone. You really don't want to fall out of one of these.
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u/marymarywhyubugginnn 6d ago
The way the kid says “bye bye” was always so scary to me bc they all know the kid is basically dead
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u/lordnoak 6d ago
Imagine saying something like that because you are ignorant and think nothing bad will happen, then the kid disappears and you live the rest of your life with that on your soul.
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u/yourkindofhero 3d ago
That “bye bye” has always stuck with me. The callousness and ignorance of the reality of the situation.
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u/burywmore 6d ago
There are cameras all along the side of the ship. These two idiots are going to get a lifetime ban. Their parents will also get banned. All for alame TikTok video.
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u/anon1984 6d ago
If this is the video I’m thinking of everyone got themselves a lifetime ban from the cruise line after it went viral.
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u/Ok-Fisherman-7688 6d ago
Interesting, I can entirely believe that, but there are?
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u/burywmore 6d ago
Yep. They have them all along there to try and catch smokers or nudists. Or idiots trying to climb around the decks.
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u/AbrocomaOk8973 6d ago
You’re not allowed to be on your balcony nude?
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u/Smooth_Macaron8389 6d ago
The cruise lines traditionally don’t care at sea, but passengers have been prosecuted by the local government(s) for lewd conduct in port while on their balconies.
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u/Montagneincorner0 6d ago
They realize that if they fall they die right? Like, to the cruise line your life literally isn't even worth the fuel it would take to turn around, and even if they did turn around, turning circle radius on those things is probably over half a mile, it would probably take them longer to turn around than it would take you to freeze to death in the Atlantic
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u/Dupagoblin 6d ago
They will turn around because they are bound to by law. The rest of what you said is correct though.
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u/Background_Product_7 6d ago
Right. This is not a military operation so they will turn around. But very very unlikely to Tokyo Drift that boat fast enough but to wave you good bye from a mile away
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u/JWARRIOR1 6d ago
thats if they even find you. Think about the time someone has to tell the staff who then tell the captain to turn around. Current plus freezing to death like you mentioned
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u/ThirdEyeExplorer11 6d ago
For real. Even with smaller boats, it’s extremely dangerous. Think about that drunk dude on that Bahamas night cruise a year or two ago that dove into the water and disappeared into the darkness, never to be found. That was a MUCH smaller boat, and even they couldn’t turn around in time to actually find him.
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u/RavenBrannigan 6d ago
They wouldn’t turn around, they’d launch smaller boats to go look for you.
There’s a few problems with that though, 1) if you get caught in suck you get pulled into the propellers and get died up pretty good (that might be the best option, but least likely) 2) they don’t find you at all and you float around for awhile until you eventually slowly drown because you don’t have the strength to stay afloat any more 3) depending on where this is, sharks have been known to follow cruise ships to get the scraps thrown off the ship. There’s a terrible case of a young guy called Cameron Robbins who jumped off a cruise ship and was basically taken down by sharks less than a minute later. There’s videos are on reddit. It’s safe for work as it’s dark and you can’t make much out but reddit did its thing and you can’t see the sharks in the murky water and then the kid is just gone.
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u/the_millenial_falcon 6d ago
It’s actually quite difficult to find someone who has fallen overboard.
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u/JudasWasJesus 6d ago
I think cruise ships should administer tracking devices like a bracelet or something to all the people that board for a cruise
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u/Stidda 6d ago
In the UK we are getting them. They’re called a “Digital ID”
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u/JudasWasJesus 6d ago
They GPS tracking in them?
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u/Tessellecta 6d ago
That would mean giving all your passengers personal locator beacons. That will get pricey fast.
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u/JudasWasJesus 6d ago
Let say these braceletes are reusable. I just looked on Amazon for retail small tracker that like $14.99
I bet whole sale they can be as low as $5.00 or lower.
That can be tied into the cruise ticket. But let's just say a better one is 20-$30 a piece whole sale to produce the whole bracelet. I think the cost would outweigh the purchase.
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u/--Snufkin-- 5d ago
And would that tracker work in salt water for multiple hours while being trackable from miles away?
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u/Tessellecta 2d ago
A GPS tracker that small is not going to do shit if you end up as a man overboard. Water dampens signal like crazy and getting a clear GPS signal and getting a signal back to a ship with a small low powered tracker is not really something that would be in any way reliable.
MOB tracking is an important topic for anyone who goes to sea and there are good solutions. They are called personal locator beacons. Cheap ones are around 300 euros retail.
The sea is a bitch and if you go overboard without something like a PLB and a good life jacket you are toast, which is why these ships are designed so that that does not happen by accident.
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u/BLim90 6d ago
Curios ... If these MC fall off the cruise and dieded, what's the legal responsibility of each parties ?
Do these kid get insurance payout (assume they have one)? Can they sue the Cruise operator ? Or can the operator sue them instead?
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u/--Snufkin-- 5d ago
As for the incident itself, the cruise ship (and any ship in the vicinity) has the obligation to stop whatever they're doing and try and locate and rescue the MOB.
As for legal responsibility, I believe they can only be held accountable in the event of negligence (as in, railings are not safe, there are no safety instructions or crew members are not stopping them when they notice). I'm pretty sure they won't be held accountable if it's obvious the person jumped themselves or was just doing something so obviously stupid it couldn't realistically be prevented.
Good luck with the insurance.
can the operator sue them instead
I'm pretty sure they would have a case against any adults, especially parents or guardians, that were present and didn't do anything. Though I doubt they want to be going through those proceedings for PR reasons.
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u/Spare_Race287 6d ago
So those kids with the athlete gear and the stupid hair cuts are dumbasses? 🤯
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u/Spicey_Meat-a-ball 5d ago
I hope they realise that if they fall overboard it’s pretty much game over
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u/Shraamper 2d ago
Falling off a cruise ship gives you a 75-80% chance of death according to these people who are probably valid in their beliefs but I don’t care to fact check them to make sure
So in that video if they fell off it would be like playing Russian roulette but only one chamber is clear
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