Man overboard: Cruise ship overboards and how they happen The Points Guy

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• stabbed, one hit in head with a bottle on party boat in Brooklyn
• MORE: Coast Guard rescues man who went overboard on Carnival cruise ship
• MORE: Search suspended for 4 people missing after Alaskan charter boat sinks: Coast Guard
• Cruise staff 'amazing'
• 'Some people fainted': Emotional parishioners return to Sydney church after stabbing
• Carnival cruise ship passenger falls overboard, found alive hours later

Grimes said he treaded water for nearly 20 hours after falling overboard on Thanksgiving Eve -- battling jelly fish, rip currents and shark-infested waters before being airlifted by the U.S. LA FAYETTE, ALABAMA -- James Michael Grimes is speaking out for the first time in an exclusive interview with ABC News after going overboard on a Carnival cruise ship after being missing for almost 20 hours. In 2023, at least 10 people fell off a major cruise line ship, turning dream vacations into disaster situations — and only two survived the fall into the ocean. A 23-year-old tourist is presumed dead after falling from the MSC Euribia cruise ship in the North Sea, reports said.

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It's not possible for you to trip over a door frame or slip on a wet deck and fall off of a vessel. “He realistically could have been in the water for 15-plus hours before we were able to successfully rescue him,” Gross said. Peale, from New Hope, Virginia, was on his first cruise and was celebrating Blosser's birthday with her family, Linda Peale said. The ship was on its way to Cozumel, a Mexican island in the Caribbean, and was released by the Coast Guard to continue to its destination after the rescue was made. "The next thing I know... I regained consciousness. I was in the water with no boat in sight," he said. The 28-year-old man said he was determined to make it out of the Gulf of Mexico alive, calling it the experience of a lifetime.

MORE: Coast Guard rescues man who went overboard on Carnival cruise ship

In reality, one or two people go overboard each month out of roughly 2.5 million who cruise during the same time frame. “Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a call from the Carnival Valor at approximately 2.30pm Thursday, reporting a passenger aboard the cruise ship was missing. Watchstanders then coordinated the launch of several rescue crews to begin searching,” the coast guard said in a statement. "We greatly appreciate the efforts of all, most especially the U.S. Coast Guard and the mariner who spotted the guest in the water," the Coast Guard said in a statement Thursday to ABC News.

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He said he does not remember excusing himself or his plunge into the Gulf of Mexico — only regaining consciousness in the water "with no boat in sight," he said. His disappearance prompted the Cozumel, Mexico-bound vessel to retrace its path toward New Orleans and the US Coast Guard to launch a frantic search. “When it started getting back towards nighttime again, the water started getting colder, [and] at that time I thought, you know, how much longer am I going to have to be out here? This is enormous and I think it's one of the biggest at sea." CBS News Correspondent Wendy Gillette got a reduced rate to sail aboard Beyond and Seashore, which boasts a water slide, infinity pool, and specialty restaurants.

For Grimes, the system returned over 7,000 square nautical miles of ocean where he could potentially be — roughly the size of Massachusetts. But it was accurate enough to put the rescue helicopter in close vicinity to where he was ultimately found. Gross said the helicopter's clutch location was thanks to the Coast Guard's Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System, which allows them to estimate where a floating object could be. The program essentially takes 5,000 virtual rubber ducks and drops them at a specific location in the ocean, Gross described. "We greatly appreciate the efforts of all, most especially the U.S. Coast Guard and the mariner who spotted the guest in the water," Matt Lupoli, Carnival's senior manager of public relations told PEOPLE Friday.

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Richard Hoefle, a Coast Guard Aviation Survival Technician for the New Orleans division, told local news stations that Grime "had about 30 seconds to a minute left" before he would have died in the water. As nightfall came back around, Grimes said he became increasingly concerned but told himself to just keep swimming. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

We offer our most sincere condolences to Mr. Peale’s family and friends," Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hooper said in a statement. The boy’s stunned father, Francel Parker, told The Daily Sun 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. “There was a lot of yelling, and the crew was alerted immediately,” cruise passenger Deborah Morrison told The Post. 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. A spokesperson for MSC Cruises said, "We are deeply saddened by this news, and our thoughts are with the family at this very difficult time," per The Telegraph.

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Liam Jones disappeared during a seven-day Northern Europe tour cruise from Southampton to Amsterdam with his family to celebrate his mother's birthday. An estimated 20.4 million people took cruises in 2022, according to statistics site Statista, with signs of higher numbers this year. If there are floating things around you, such as garbage, collect what you can to make yourself easier to spot. The Coast Guard has an increasing radius to search depending on where they think you are, and anything at all you can to do increase your chances can help. Describe the person as best you can, including how fit they appeared, what they were wearing and if they were holding anything that might float, as all those factors will affect likely survival times. "While on its trans-Pacific sailing, a guest onboard Quantum of the Seas went overboard," the spokesperson said.

A Carnival cruise ship passenger fell overboard into the Gulf of Mexico and was found alive against all odds on Thanksgiving Day — more than 15 hours after vanishing, officials said Friday. All ships have "safety barriers that are regulated by U.S. Coast Guard standards and prevent a guest from falling off," according to Carnival spokesperson Matt Lupoli. James Michael Grimes was found by a bulk carrier vessel, a harrowing 20 hours after he fell off the Carnival Valor on the night of November 23. Lt. Seth Gross oversees search and rescue missions in the greater Louisiana Gulf Coast area, and said his rescue crew arrived just in time to save Grimes' life. A 28-year-old man who fell off a cruise ship the night before Thanksgiving miraculously survived because a "whole bunch of factors" worked out "perfectly," according to a US Coast Guard search and rescue mission coordinator.

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“Cruise ships have safety barriers in all public areas that are regulated by US Coast Guard standards that prevent a guest from falling off,” the agency said in a statement. The chances of you falling overboard off a cruise ship are extremely low. A 42-year-old woman spent an hour in the water after falling from the 10th deck of the Royal Caribbean International in June but was rescued by the ship's crew. "The search lights were on from the ship's bridge as well, they rapidly deployed their 'runabout' rescue vessel off the ship and then spent the next couple of hours in the water searching around.

A Royal Caribbean Cruise Line spokesperson confirmed the Quantum of the Seas departed Brisbane on April 12 and is scheduled to arrive in Honolulu on April 28. The Honolulu Command Centre has confirmed that the person missing is an Australian man, but provided no further details. She said there was "a lot of sadness" on board the ship on Thursday.

Between 2009 and 2019, there were 212 overboard incidents globally involving passengers and crew, according to statistics compiled for CLIA by consulting firm G.P. But security cameras often indicate the jump was intentional, as seems to have been the case with 30-year-old Jaylen Hill in July. Hill was reported missing by family members on the Carnival Elation and the cruise line said surveillance video showed him jumping over the side. "The ship's crew immediately launched a search and rescue operation and is working closely with local authorities." Grimes told ABC he was always confident he would be rescued, and Gross said that attitude likely contributed to his ability to stay afloat that long. He said Grimes' "will to survive," "natural instinct," and his efforts at "self preservation," like trying to shout out to rescue boats or reach offshore oil platforms, was "just not common."

Cruise Lines International Association predicts passenger numbers will exceed pre-pandemic levels next year. "Future is bright, industry is growing, guests are coming back, so we're all very happy," says Lutoff-Perlo. Francel Parker is demanding to know how his underage son was given alcohol on the four-day cruise. Parker, of North Port, Florida, jumped off the 11th deck of the Liberty of the Seas around 4 a.m.

The 200-plus-mile search was made complicated by the time difference between when the passenger was last seen and when the Coast Guard was alerted. “We knew that communication with the mariners in the Gulf of Mexico was going to be critical, Gross said. “I think it kind of blows the norm, the normalcy, out of the water here, and really just shows the will to live is something that you need to account for in every search-and-rescue case,” he told CNN.