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Father jumps off Disney cruise ship to save daughter who fell overboard
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 01 - 07 - 2025

A father jumped into the ocean to save his daughter after she fell from the fourth deck of a Disney cruise ship travelling from the Bahamas to the US on Sunday afternoon, witnesses say.
Videos showed passengers cheering as the two were pulled onto a rescue boat after apparently treading water for 10 minutes.
The girl appeared to fall when her father took her picture against a railing, witnesses said. A man overboard alert was broadcast on the ship, and crew rushed to recover them.
"The ship was moving quickly, so quickly, it's crazy how quickly the people became tiny dots in the sea, and then you lost sight of them," passenger Laura Amador said.
"The captain slowed the ship and turned it around, and then they deployed a tender ship with people on it to go get them, and we saw them rescue the dad and daughter," she told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.
The 4,000-person capacity Disney Dream, was returning to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after sailing for four days around the Bahamas.
Disney confirmed in a statement that two passengers were rescued, but offered few details about what occurred.
"The Crew aboard the Disney Dream swiftly rescued two guests from the water," a Disney Cruise Line spokesperson said. "We commend our Crew Members for their exceptional skills and prompt actions, which ensured the safe return of both guests to the ship within minutes.
An image of the 14-deck Disney Dream cruise ship with an annotation to indicate the location of the fourth deck, which is just below the lifeboats. The fourth deck includes a running track which has a long, open-air section with railings on both sides of the boat.
"We watched it, you could see two little things...it was crazy, it was horrific," passenger Gar Frantz told NBC News, describing how he witnessed the two enter the ocean and nearly disappear into the horizon.
The incident took place on the last day of the cruise, and the ship returned to port in Florida as normal.
While it is rare for passengers to fall from cruise ships, rescues are not often successful when they do.
According to a Cruise Lines International Association report from 2019, 25 people fell overboard that year from cruise ships and only nine were saved from the water. — BBC


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