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• Heartbreaking video shows cruise ship passenger swimming, fishing with friends week before fatal jump
• Driver caught going 104 miles per hour near Lakewood has been fined nearly $1K
• Man jumps from Carnival Cruise Line ship 55 miles off Florida coast
• MORE: Search suspended for 4 people missing after Alaskan charter boat sinks: Coast Guard
• Holland America crewmember missing after going overboard before vessel docks at Port Everglades
• US Coast Guard searches for man who jumped from cruise ship
• Brian McKnight’s son, ex-wife react after singer calls estranged kids a ‘product of sin’: ‘Outright disrespect’

The missing man was aboard Royal Caribbean’s “8 Night Bahamas & Perfect Day Holiday Cruise,” which left from Baltimore on Friday, passengers told the Post and Courier. According to reports, he allegedly jumped off an 18-story Liberty of the Seas boat around 4am in front of his younger brother and dad after getting into an argument with his father. One of the ship’s passengers, Bryan Sims, explained how he’d been hanging out with the 20-year-old and his brother in the hot tub until about 3.30pm. Witnesses said the man’s father and brother watched as he jumped, seemingly on a spur of the moment decision, over the side, according to The New York Post. Lupoli said the Coast Guard released the ship from the search efforts and it continued to Port Canaveral.

Heartbreaking video shows cruise ship passenger swimming, fishing with friends week before fatal jump

“As we were walking from the hot tub back to the elevators, his dad and brother were walking towards us. The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a Virginia man who fell from a cruise ship balcony earlier this week. "Sadly, after an exhaustive on-board search and a review of security camera video it was determined that he jumped," Lupoli said. "Shoreside authorities were notified, and the crew was advised to continue to Jacksonville. The Carnival Care Team is providing support to the guest's family and our thoughts are with them and the guest." The US Coast Guard has stopped its search for a 30-year-old male passenger who went overboard from the Carnival Elation cruise ship on Sunday.

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A Royal Caribbean spokesperson told Business Insider that the cruise line's "Care Team is providing support and assistance to the guest's family during this difficult time." Royal Caribbean said it “immediately” launched search boats to look for the 20-year-old and alerted the Coast Guard, which later took over the search. But on Monday morning, the agency announced it had suspended the search after scouring more than 1,625 square miles for eight hours, WCBD reported.

Man jumps from Carnival Cruise Line ship 55 miles off Florida coast

The 20-year-old passenger who jumped off a Royal Caribbean cruise last week after an argument with his dad has been identified as a former high school football player and avid hunter living in Florida. BSO's Homicide and Crime Scene units have responded to Port Everglades to investigate, while the U.S. Coast has been notified and is currently searching the sea for the crew member. Parker, of North Port, Florida, jumped off the 11th deck of the Liberty of the Seas around 4 a.m. On April 4, plummeting 200 feet into the Atlantic in front of his helpless brother and father while heading to Cuba and the Bahamas’ Grand Inagua Island, Florida officials said.

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The Broward County Sheriff’s Office identified Parker on Wednesday, the New York Post and Daily Mail reported, just a day after the Coast Guard officially called off their search for the previously unidentified man. Florida deputies did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation from The Daily Beast. A man who jumped to his death from a Royal Caribbean cruise last week was identified by media outlets Wednesday as Levion Parker, a 20-year-old Floridian who regularly posted about hunting and fishing. In 2023, about 31 million passengers traveled on a cruise, and at least 10 people went overboard, with two of them surviving, Business Insider reported. At least 406 people on major cruise lines and ferries have gone overboard between 2000 and 2024, according to data collected by retired professor and cruise industry researcher Ross Klein. Francel told the Daily Sun that he threw six life rings off the ship in hopes of saving his son before the massive vessel was able to come to a stop about 20 minutes later.

In December, an MSC Cruises passenger jumped from one of its ships while sailing from Europe to South America. Royal Caribbean confirmed that a passenger, whose identity has not been revealed, went overboard near The Bahamas at about 4 a.m. Bryan Sims told The Post that he was hanging out with Levion and his 18-year-old brother, Seth, in the hotel tub of the ship in the early hours of April 4 before they went their separate ways.

The US Coast Guard has called off the search for the 20-year-old who is said to have jumped overboard from a cruise ship. Under the 2010 Cruise Vessel Security and Safety law, cruise ships must have 42-inch guard rails and man-overboard imaging or detection systems. However, not all cruise ships have implemented recently developed automatic man-overboard-detection technology, which uses thermal cameras and radars to immediately alert crew members when a person goes overboard.

US Coast Guard searches for man who jumped from cruise ship

But Francel, who runs an AC business in Port Charlotte, told the local newspaper that he wasn’t arguing with Levion and that his son wasn’t trying to take his own life. There are a number of passengers who were onboard at the time of the tragedy who have recollected the events. The tragic news has been further confirmed by passengers, who said it appeared to be an ‘impulsive’ and ‘spur of the moment’ decision. Reports have stated he ‘jumped off’ Royal Caribbean's Liberty of the Seas in front of his family. Reeta Sahani, 64, was reported missing after her husband, Jakesh Sahani, 70, woke up in the middle of the night and noticed she was not in their cabin. The passenger was identified as 19-year-old Sigmund Ropich, a college student from Washington state known to his loved ones as “Boiboi.” He had been vacationing with friends at the time.

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Bryan Sims, a passenger who claimed he saw the incident unfold, told the paper he’d been hanging out with Parker and his brother in the hot tub. "I just want answers, and I'm holding out for hope," Barnett's grandmother Dirlean Tate Mason told NBC News in a story published on Tuesday. NORTH PORT, Fla. (SNN TV)—- A man who jumped off a Royal Caribbean cruise last week has been identified as a former North Port High School football player. According to a CLIA report, only 28.2% of passengers who fell overboard between 2009 and 2019 were successfully rescued.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a 20-year-old man who jumped from the deck of a Royal Caribbean cruise in front of his father and brother Thursday morning off the Bahamas. “There was a lot of yelling, and the crew was alerted immediately,” cruise passenger Deborah Morrison told The Post. A total of 212 overboard incidents were reported on cruise ships from 2009 to 2019, according to a report commissioned by the industry-trade group Cruise Lines International Association.

Authorities say the man who recently disappeared from a Carnival cruise ship appeared to have jumped overboard. A 20-year-old man who was vacationing with his family on a cruise may have jumped overboard, The New York Post reported. Heartbreaking video shows 20-year-old Levion Parker happily swimming in the ocean and fishing with his pals just a week before he drunkenly jumped off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship and was never seen again. After a man jumped off a cruise ship into the Bahama Ocean, his father has said he believes he is still alive in the sea.

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On Facebook, Mason said she and her family are in need of prayers as they await answers. “We are holding on to hope and prayer that he will be found safe,” she wrote. The agency has officially identified the missing man as Tyler Barnett of Houma, Louisiana. Parker, who was home-schooled, played football for North Port High School during the 2021 season, according to North Port H.S. The release of his identity came shortly after the Coast Guard called off its search for Parker.

"The Carnival Care Team is supporting the guest's family. Mardi Gras," said Carnival spokesman Matt Lupoli. The man jumped from the Carnival Cruise Line ship Mardi Gras just after midnight about 55 miles east of Port Canaveral, according to the Coast Guard and Carnival. Sims told the Post that Parker “appeared drunk,” and he spotted him arguing with his dad over the supposed drinking.

The father of the 20-year-old passenger who jumped off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship last Thursday in a reportedly drunken, impulsive leap believes his son is still alive nearly a week later. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a man who jumped overboard from a cruise ship early Saturday as it approached Florida. The cruise ship was on a four-day Bahamas sailing and on its way back to Jacksonville, Florida, at the time of the incident, Matt Lupoli, a Carnival spokesperson, said. The man was reported missing by his travel companion late Sunday afternoon after he was not seen all day.