Passenger ‘sliced open’ after water slide breaks on world’s largest cruise ship

The 46ft high slide, in the ship’s Thrill Island area, has the biggest drop at sea and includes a trapdoor launch and a 360-degree loop.

The cruise ship is heading to Royal Caribbean’s CocoCay island and will then return to Miami. The seven-day round trip sees it docking at St Maarten, the US Virgin Islands and the Bahamas.

Tickets for a week-long trip on the Icon of the Seas for the Eastern Caribbean and Perfect Day at CocoCay tour for a family of four start at £2,048, according to current availability.

A Royal Caribbean Group spokesman said: “Our team provided medical care to an adult guest when acrylic glass broke off a water slide as the guest passed through the slide.

“The guest is being treated for his injuries. The water slide is closed for the remainder of the sailing pending an investigation.”

The 1,200ft-long Icon of the Seas and its sister ship Star of the Seas are the world’s biggest cruise ships. Each can accommodate 7,600 passengers.

The incident comes two weeks after an Icon of the Seas crew member stabbed a colleague and jumped overboard to his death.

The South African man, 35, allegedly stabbed a woman, 28, multiple times on board the ship off the coast of San Salvador Island. He then jumped off the ship and was found dead by its onboard medical staff. The woman survived the attack.

They'd have to drain and disinfect the pool afterwards. Still, no one will go in afterwards.

No waterslide on the Titanic. Safety first back then.

[quote] They'd have to drain and disinfect the pool afterwards. Still, no one will go in afterwards.

Some drunk idiots will.

Sounds fun.

My neck, my back slice my bussy and my crack!

Cruising is so very glamorous!

Passenger footage of the broken slide.

At least he wasn't dropped on his head to the concrete 20 feet down like I was, thanks, drunken grandpa!

He had just come from his 3rd trip to the buffet where he had many, many steins of beer, and reportedly was close to 300 pounds.

South Philadelphia woman describes chaotic scene after cruise ship waterslide breaks

"Mommy, why is the water red?"

They weigh you before you go down? Interesting. Jesus, the thing was dripping for days and they did nothing? Lawsuit incoming.

There’s AIDS blood in the pool!

“Sliced open” for fuck’s sake I’m thinking the guy’s intestines came flying out of his stomach and all he got was a cut on his leg.

We don’t know how bad a cut. It’s like that person who was burnt by the McDonald’s coffee and was mocked. Turned out that they were burned so badly you could see the bone.

This is why I don’t cruise!

- The broke ass bitch in every comments section who can’t even afford to leave her own trailer park