Two passengers, reportedly a father and his daughter, were rescued by crew members after they fell into the water aboard the Disney Dream cruise ship during its return from a trip around the Bahamas.
Disney confirmed that the rescue happened on June 29, saying that both were returned to the ship within minutes of entering the water.
Social media posts from customers on board reported that the pair were a father and his young daughter.
“We heard an M.O.B (man overboard) call over the ship’s speaker,” said Floridian Janice Martin-Asuque on Facebook.
“A little girl had fallen into the water, and her father jumped in after to save her.
“Thank God they’re both safe.”
Passenger overboard incidents are relatively rare on cruise ships. Tales of rescue and survival can be even more extraordinary.
In 2022, 28-year-old James Michael Grimes fell overboard from a Carnival cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico.
He swam for what he believed to be more than 15 hours before being rescued by the Coast Guard.
In 2015, ex-Miami Dolphins player Rob Konrad claimed he swam over nine miles to shore after accidentally falling off his boat near the South Florida coastline.
