A cruise turned into a nightmare for people aboard Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas when a young man jumped overboard shortly after 4 a.m. Thursday.
The 18-story ship was sailing between Cuba and the Bahamas’ Grand Inagua Island when the as-yet-unidentified man jumped off one of the decks.
According to onlookers, his father and brother watched helplessly as he leaped over the side. Some passengers said it appeared to be an impulsive, spur-of-the-moment decision.
“I had hung out with him and his brother in the hot tub until 3:30,” passenger Bryan Sims tells The Post. ” It was standing room only. He sat right beside me the whole time.”
“He was pretty drunk,” Sims continues. “As we were walking from the hot tub back to the elevators, his dad and brother were walking towards us. His dad was fussing at him for being drunk, I guess.”
“When we got to them, he said to his dad, ‘I’ll fix this right now.’ And he jumped out the window in front of us all. There was a lot of yelling, and the crew was alerted immediately,” another passenger, Deborah Morrison, told The Post.
“His family was horrified. Just beside themselves. I can’t even begin to imagine what they’re going through. It was insane,” says Sims. “It was just surreal.”
