Yesterday, a passenger on board Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Spirit was rescued after he jumped off of the ship into the Pacific Ocean.
The Carnival Spirit was on its 4th day of a 15 night Hawaiian cruise when someone on board witnessed the man jump from the ship. An alarm was immediately sounded, and the emergency operation went underway. The ship slowed down to about 5 knots, turned around, and lowered a lifeboat to rescue the man. Within minutes the man was recovered from the water and was brought back on board the ship alive.
Carnival released the following statement regarding the incident.
Yesterday, while the Carnival Spirit was en route to Hawaii, a 28-year-old man was witnessed jumping overboard. Search and rescue operations were initiated and the guest was located and brought back on board where he was treated at the ship’s medical center.
Carnival’s CareTeam is providing its support to the guest and his family.
The Carnival Spirit will be back at its home port of San Diego on April 28th. (My birthday :))
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4 replies on “Carnival Spirit Passenger Jumps, Rescued”
i was on the cruise and saw him in the water- no lifeboats were lowered- the rescue boat and its crew went out and saved him- it took 40 minutes which is amazing!!
I was also on this cruise and Anonymous is correct. I had a balcony room on the side where the rescue boat was lowered into the water. Then on our cruise back home a passenger became very ill and we had to go back to Hawaii….after being underway for about 10 hours.
i to was there and only about 30 feet from him when he jumped!! I was in The Adult Only area!! Right near the pool!! And the Carnival staff did an amazing job!!
Let’s just get a few things straight. This did not happen shortly after cpt. Volpi announced we were in the middle of nowhere, he said that the night before. The captain, was in fact at our table in the Empire Dining Room asking us our experience when the “Bravo, Bravo Portside” came over the loudspeaker. The man who jumped was not married as is being alluded to. He had a 7 year old daughter t…hat my daughter befriended on the ship. We became very close to the family and my husband actually saw him and pointed him out to a crew member who radioed the rescue mission. He was not stupid, I spoke to him the day before for over an hour and he was fine. Mental health needs to be taken more seriously, it was such a sad situation for his family and people should not be so quick to judge. Carnival responded so quickly and professionally! They were amazing and even recognized our efforts in searching by sending us chocolate covered strawberries and champagne to our room along with a signed letter from the captain. It was not Carnivals fault, they did an amazing job at responding to an emergency situation.