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.

I think she must have been sitting on the railing, maybe for a selfie or something? I can believe she was in the water for 10 hours - that's happened before and people do survive if it's warm enough (and avoid sharks!).

It also terrifies me, I crap myself when taking the kids on ferries.

The music from tales of the unexpected freaks me out to this day. And that weird thing that went round at the start

Then consensus in our office was a combination of shit faced and re-enacting Titanic.
She was incredibly lucky

When we saw this on the news DS and I both said she must have stood on the railings to do the Titanic.
She can't possibly have had that much to drink or she wouldn't have survived?

Excuse the Sun link...

www.thesun.co.uk/news/7050800/british-woman-fell-off-cruise-ship/

The woman apparently even removed clothes before jumping in.

“Fall” is usually a euphemism.

Or the jumping makes sense too, but they're just not saying it. Perhaps to protect her from reprisals.

You don't swim, you don't tread water. You just relax and float.

The key word there is “relax”.

This would be me:

FUCKING THE FUCK FUCK!! IVE FALLEN OFF THE FUCKING BOAT INTO THE FUCKING SEA SND THE BOATS SAILING AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My friend has just got back from that very cruise! I asked her about it and she said the ship circled round looking for her, then called the coast guard. My friend didn't know anything more than that. She apparently slept through most of the drama!

I need to sort out yoga lessons.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha @TSSDNCOP

I’ve been on a fair few cruises and the one thing they tell you over and over and over is don’t sit on the ships rails!!! Just ignorance really if she did that. I’ve been plastered on a cruise and never thought it was a good idea to sit on the rails. She’s one lucky lady

That link suggests that she's a prolific selfie taker. Could she have been climbing up on the railings and fallen over?

People falling off bridges, walls, cliffs etc while taking selfies has become a bit of a 'thing'.

You don't, you jump.

LOL @TSSDNCOP

I clearly know nothing about cruise ships and railings because none of these suspicions had crossed my mind!

I will say that IME the Adriatic is very buoyant, calm and warm, certainly at this time of year.

Close to 300 people disappeared off cruise ships world wide in the last 15 years so at least some of them must have fallen over board.

This woman looks to be enjoying the media attention from her fall an awful lot. I would've expected relief or shock but the enjoyment is odd.

when I used to go to the isle of wight with my parents and sister as a child my mum would pack arm bands for us in case we fell off the ferry! I do wonder though how that would work as we werent wandering around wearing them so if we fell off she would just have to quickly get one out, blow it up and chuck it to us! gave her peace of mind I suppose

I think she was drunk - but not too drunk - and arseing around. If it was that easy to fall overboard then it would happen every journey.

I would also be dead from panic, I would be so scared of ending up inside a shark than drowning, the night would be the worse, complete darkness and not knowing what was lurking deep below me. Then there is the risk you may fall asleep floating, and either drown or a ship not spotting you crashes into you and you get churned up int he motor.

Jena that’s brilliant and exactly the same logic that DM would deploy. Whilst standing next to the box with the life ring, emergency phone and flares.

Last year I was on a cruise and DH and I were at dinner when over the tannoy came 'This is the bridge. Man overboard. Man overboard.'

I swear to god my ovaries dropped out of my arse, it was the most hideous feeling. The waiter briefly looked out the window, shrugged and went on his way, which did make me think maybe this happens a lot? Everyone went out onto the deck and no one could see anything. It was awful though, I kept expecting to turn my eyes and see a dead body floating out there or someone really panicking and drowning, or a child. The ship stopped and turned around and spent a couple of hours in the area and then they asked for the people who had 'contacted the bridge' to get in contact again.

In the end everyone was accounted for and it turned out apparently someone saw a sun lounger floating out at sea (it was a med cruise and we were between lots of islands) and thought it was a person?! Or something...

I hate taking my kids on ferries as well. And I always think that if someone fell overboard on a ship that big they would just get sucked underneath it?

Moment I saw it I was dubious, more from her behaviour than anything else. More is already coming out...A crew member already saying she was a problem passenger. She appears to be local to me, too, so bound to pick up any dirt