To wonder how the fluffing hell you can 'fall off' a cruise ship?!

[katiefromtheblock]

I mean HOW? Just HOW?

I am an average height (5 ft 4ish) and the rail was up to my chest when me and DH went on a cruise ship 3 years ago. It was like this on the attached pic.

We've done 4 Mediterranean cruises; I like sea days, my husband doesn't.

This podcast has an excellent interview with a man who survived 28 hours in the sea after falling from a boat. Different circumstances but interesting to see how someone copes. www.modernmann.co.uk/new/2017/10/24/61-lost-at-sea

Shatner, what has her father been saying?

@DarlingNikita Here's one quote, albeit from the Daily Fail....

"Her father Ron Longstaff, 76, a retired police superintendent from Kenilworth, Warwickshire, said that she had been going through a distressing period recently, but refused to give any more details.

He said last night: 'She’s (been) going through a very hard time. She wouldn't want to be upsetting me and of course she is.'

Mr Longstaff also revealed he only discovered his daughter was at the centre of the drama after seeing her interviewed on the television news."

Thanks Shatner.

My friend works on cruise ships and said people often jump then maybe change their mind and say they fell - thinking they might come in for a cash settlement

You can’t just fall off unless you were doing something stupid health and safety and the fear of being sued wouldn’t allow for that on those huge cruise ships that have thousands of passengers

Well it’s got her face in the headlines

I've been on a number of cruises and you can't accidentally 'fall in'. You can jump in if you climb over the rails and you can be so stupid as to sit on the railing while pissed and the 'fall in' but that's it.

Here's latest reporting in The Sun. Note very definite use of word JUMPED.

Cruise ship plunge Brit Kay Longstaff says ‘I just want to go home’ as she’s reunited with boyfriend and prepares to head home. Kay Longstaff, an air hostess from Cheltenham who jumped following a drunken row with her boyfriend, told medics 'what happened has happened' as she prepared to leave hospital.

Jumped after row with her bf. FFS she is lucky to be alive

I kind of imagine they just pile (the deceased) off once they get back to the original port,or do they take them off at the next port and the family have to fly them home?

If someone passes mid-cruise, I believe this depends on which ports they're calling at; some will have the facilities for repatriation and other certainly won't. No doubt, too, there are teams at cruise HQ (and hopefully staff on the ships too) who are able to coordinate this sort of thing ... as already said, given the age demographic of cruising they need them

I'm not sure how it works about banning someone from future cruises, but since Carnival and RCI together own most of the popular lines, I wonder if a ban would mean just the ship concerned or all of them which are owned by the group?

"What's happened has happened"

Ha! Apparently it cost £600,000 to rescue her. A very expensive "what's happened has happened"!

I slipped in the bath the other night and panicked.
I'd be dead in minutes if I fell into the sea

I'm actually PMSL at one poster's assumption that Caribbean cruises are some how cheap and therefore attract the low rent creeps she appears to have encountered on cruises. For starters, it's certainly not cheap to get to any of those ports from the UK. And for another, we could hardly afford lunch in Grand Cayman. Cheap, my arse.

Holly, I have a soft spot for RC as a line. I'd have to say it's my favourite. For river cruises, Viking all the way! We'd love to do the Panama Canal cruise, that's a Carnival one. A friend who did it said it was boring, but he's a bit of a drip as it is and I also like that it has tons of sea days. I love sea days.

Her father now seems to be backpedalling somewhat. He's now proud of her, says he cannot imagine her jumping, saw her a month ago and she was very well (which seems at odds with him earlier saying she'd been going through a hard/distressing time lately). He admits she's "caused quite a furore but she doesn’t deserve to be punished and do hope she doesn't lose her job".

Miss Longstaff when released from hospital declined to say anything about her fall.

I'm just agog at the amount of botox she appears to have had!

Wahay! A cruise thread! I'm fancying St Petersburg for my 50th.

Do it, Morris! You will love it! Cruising is the dawg's baws!

LeftRightCentre I love cruises too. I think you should start a general cruisey thread

Apparently she leapt from the deck after a drunken row with boyfriend

Did someone upthread mention that there's a general cruise thread!?

We're already booked for Caribbean Xmas 19 - it was already booking up

@LeftRightCentre I love sea days too!

@LeftRightCentre on the groups I am on on FB, The PC Cruise is much sought after as you get the most for your money and is supposedly an amazing experience. It books up very rapidly. I'd love to do it but just not practically possible in the near future. Have done two TA starting in Barcelona with calls to The Azores, The Bahamas and ending in Miami for the first and then called to The Azores, Canada x 2 ports and ending in New York, so loads of sea days as it was an 11 day cruise. I love sea days too. We've only ever cruised with Disney and absolutely loved it. Have been tentatively looking into RC though as they leave from Southampton, which is close to us and I would love not to have to travel so far to get to and from the ports.

One of my guilty pleasures is watching cruise food videos on YouTube, I'd love to go on one, but as I have a chronic illness/disability I'd like one that doesn't stop much so I could just pootle about the ship and not feel like I'd missed anything by not getting off.

Oh, Kew, where in the Caribbean? Was just last month on a Key West, Freeport, Nassau cruise. Definitely look at an excursion if you're ever in Freeport, there's not much to do there if you're not going on an excursion but in that port make sure you make it an excursion through the cruise line because you do have to travel some to get out. There's a Cruise topic. Nowadays we try to avoid tender ports but as far as those go Grand Cayman isn't too bad.