Nude Cruise Ship Passenger Fell Off Ship and Swam with Sharks for 20 Hours ๐ฆ ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ ๐ณ
It was a Thanksgiving to remember for a local State Farm worker on a Carnival cruise. After downing a few cock tales with co-worker Jake, the man who fell off a Carnival ocean liner and treaded water for 20 hours before being rescued literally swam with sharks and miraculously survived, but there's one big mystery -- how many drinks did this dude consume before going overboard?!?
The 28-year-old told a family member he was going to the bathroom, and that's the last anyone saw of him. He doesn't remember going to the bathroom, falling off the ship or hitting the water.
The first thing he recalls is that he was on the ocean floor with no boat in sight. He was actually passed out in the water after the fall. Unreal! But God kept him afloat for a bigger purpose. He was cold and hungry and survived by eating whatever floated by.
James was treading water in an area known as a feeding ground for sharks, and it appears he encountered at least one. You gotta watch the video and hear how he survived that.
Stars Eaten By Sharks
LAUNCH GALLERY
Eventually, he saw a freighter and swam with the little energy had left ... heading toward the vessel. When a Coast Guard chopper lifted him out the water, the first thing he did was warn one of the military guys he was naked!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 51 | December 6, 2022 11:58 PM
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Dirty slut was probably being porked by a pinga and accidentally toppled over mid-thrust!
by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 2, 2022 5:08 PM
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Sharks don't like pickled meat.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 2, 2022 5:09 PM
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How embarrassing, having the world know you were on a Carnival cruise.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 2, 2022 5:10 PM
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Whatโs wrong with Carnival?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 2, 2022 9:51 PM
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that's kind of impressive that he was able to tread water for 20 hours, but why did nobody on the ship notice a guy falling overboard?
by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 2, 2022 9:54 PM
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He said he lost 20 pounds from threading water.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 2, 2022 9:56 PM
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I thread sheets and dint looze nuttin.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 2, 2022 9:58 PM
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Itโs impossible to lose 20 pounds in 12 hours.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 4, 2022 6:03 AM
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I think his clothes came off in the water. He wasn't naked when he went in.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 4, 2022 6:04 AM
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Most importantly, cut or uncut?
by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 4, 2022 6:06 AM
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How would you know? He was blackout drunk and could have been naked like that Tyson guy who was blackout drunk.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 4, 2022 6:06 AM
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If he was passed out in the water, what kept him from drowning? Weird story
by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 4, 2022 7:11 AM
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Did you watch his interview? He said the hand of God kept him afloat while he was passed out.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 13 | December 4, 2022 8:29 AM
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He didn't seem very smart in the interview.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 4, 2022 9:34 AM
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This is the most amazing survival story. I guess being drunk and religious saved him.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 4, 2022 11:59 AM
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OP you got SO MANY DETAILS incorrectly. Your grammar and vocabulary is atrocious.
For example:
He was "on the ocean floor"?
And the guy specifically says it was one fish and he thinks NOT a shark.
The mind boggles.
"cock tale" indeed.
Cockamamie
by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 4, 2022 12:13 PM
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Maybe the sharks ๐ฆ were just taking turns eating his ass
by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 4, 2022 12:21 PM
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God really loves white trash.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 4, 2022 12:38 PM
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He be mighty lucky, sharks donโt go for drunken hillbilly ass
by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 4, 2022 12:42 PM
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There is something really suspicious about this story, down to the dumb songs he supposedly made up while bobbing in the drink. And the news has been playing this story, ad nauseum, since it happened. I call bullshit. Carnival Cruise. What the Hell do you expect????
by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 4, 2022 12:44 PM
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Sorry, my comment was meant for R10
by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 4, 2022 12:54 PM
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R21. So like what you think he fakes being naked in the water somehow and the Coast guard rescuing him? clearly he fell in the water and was there for some time you seem kind of like a dumbass.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | December 4, 2022 12:55 PM
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WTF is the grammar troll? This thread is full of offenders, including you, [R17].
by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 4, 2022 1:18 PM
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They didn't report him missing for 12 hours. Somebody pushed him over!
by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 4, 2022 1:21 PM
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R26 The Gulf averages 5,300 feet deep. Explain to me how he woke to find himself on the "ocean floor".
by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 4, 2022 1:24 PM
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๐ถ๐ถunda da sea. ๐ถ๐ถ
by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 4, 2022 1:39 PM
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dumb, but admirable sang-froid
by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 5, 2022 7:48 AM
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So the white trash type prefer Carnival. Good to know. I'll stick with Royal Caribbean.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 5, 2022 7:58 AM
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This story does feel very balloon boy hoax-esque. The details make hardly any sense, and the guy is being cagey about the details. For example, one doesnโt just fall off a commercial cruise ship, that takes some actual doing. But heโs a religious wingnut, so heโs given carte blanche to weave whatever improbable tale he wants.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 5, 2022 8:09 AM
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[Quote]God really loves white trash.
Amen!
by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 5, 2022 8:12 AM
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They said it was going to be a cruise ๐ข of the Riviera, they didnโt say it was the Redneck Riviera ๐ซ
by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 5, 2022 8:14 AM
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Well he really was in the water. And he really had no flotation device. So that part is true. Which is amazing.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 5, 2022 10:34 AM
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R35 I got the feeling he was dodgy because he knows what happened, but doesn't want to admit it -- that he had too much to drink. My theory is that he was trying to take a piss overboard, maybe even climbed up one of the rails, acting like a typical drunk guy (pissing wherever). If not that, he flipped over the rail somehow, because of drinking too much (idk the height of these rails -- carnival says it's "impossible" to fall over without doing something like climbing them.). โ
He remembers everything but what happened between heading to the bathroom and being in the ocean. Wonder if he's afraid that if he admitted to doing something he shouldn't be doing, he'd be held liable in some way for rescue costs.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 5, 2022 11:01 AM
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Well it's pretty unlikely there was a sudden jolt to throw him overboard!
Anyone remember that missing girl who went missing from a cruise ship in the middle of the night? Some guy claimed he'd recognised her being forced to work in a brothel
by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 5, 2022 11:08 AM
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The ship's Isaac probably roofied him.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 5, 2022 11:45 AM
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Is Carnival officially the Branson of cruise ships?
by Anonymous | reply 42 | December 5, 2022 11:52 AM
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[quote]OP you got SO MANY DETAILS incorrectly. Your grammar and vocabulary is atrocious.
Jโadore irony.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | December 5, 2022 1:52 PM
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He looks ridiculous in R13. Took off his hat, hair plastered to his head, and went on camera.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | December 5, 2022 2:26 PM
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Can't adverb "incorrectly" modify the verb "to get"? Where is the ironic mistake?
by Anonymous | reply 46 | December 5, 2022 5:33 PM
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I agree that something is off about this story.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | December 5, 2022 5:49 PM
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[quote] He said the hand of God kept him afloat while he was passed out.
The same hand that pushed him in the water to begin with.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | December 5, 2022 7:10 PM
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and all the papers had to say was he was found in the nude
by Anonymous | reply 49 | December 6, 2022 11:37 PM
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Because they couldnโt lie. If you look at the footage he really was found in the nude.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | December 6, 2022 11:41 PM
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