Man who fell off cruise ship swam with sharks in rip currents for 20 hours
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2022
- Lucky to be alive: James Michael Grimes battled shark-infested waters, rip currents and jelly fish for 20 hours before being airlifted by the U.S. Coast Guard after he fell overboard on a Carnival cruise ship.
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Pretty sure he was wasted but regardless, 20 hours treading water!? This dude is a legend!
You have to be ripped off your ass to fall off a ship.
My thoughts exactly. He was probably intoxicated. I live on the coast which is surrounded by high, treacherous limestone cliffs. A lot of young people have fallen from these cliffs. Apart from the poor unfortunate suicide victims who have driven off in their cars, almost in all cases they were intoxicated.
He is lying, he was drunk as a motherfucker
Dead set, I struggle in knee deep water when Ive had a dozen beers 😂 that would be the scary as and feel like forever!
This dude is an idiot
“Were you drunk?”
“No. But I was in an air guitar contest”
Drunk air guitar contest
For real Lmao
He was pickled from liquor, that's why whatever nibbled at his foot didn't eat him🦈
Just fess up, you were inebriated🍸🤪🍹🥴🍻😵💫🥃😵🐟🐠
@@ilovephotography1254 "Inebrated"😆Try plastered, snockered, three sheets into the wind, and if you know old-school, high as Cootie Brown🥴
Q: Did you have a few drinks?
A: I won an air guitar contest
All you need to know . Lol . Right on topic.
😂😂😂
But I was not drunk. Though I can't remember how many drinks I had or how I fell. But I was not drunk. But I did win an air guitar contest. Yep.
Air guitar competition told me everything I needed to know
lol!
Damn it you made me spit my coffee
I burst out laugh g when he said “ I would go in another cruise, because I really didn’t go in this one.” Legend!
Had me weak 😂 dude is unintentionally funny lol
No, don't sully the true legends by calling this dweeb one.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Same😂 burst out laughing
😂😂😂😂😂
This guy seems like a nice person but he doesn’t want to admit he did something stupid. He remembers exactly what he did, I bet when he hit the water he sobered up quick. 🤣😂
😂😂😂
Seems like a nice person? He is blatantly lying in front of millions of people.
He’s not the only person to do so.
@@truthtold9084 There's murderers and not the only murderers to do so... doesn't make them nice people just because they're not the only ones.
@@syntaxerorr what's he lieing about?
“Life’s a beach, enjoy the waves”
Is sending me 😂😂😂🤣
thats the part he could have easily made up
@@Joemammmy?
@@JoemammmyThere’s always that one guy ina comment sections
@@kingzae8753yep. They’re the same kind of people who think the world is flat and everything is fake 🤦♂️
Yeah that’s an absolutely insane fortune to find in your pants after the fact!! This guy was awesome though 🤣. “Would you ever go on another cruise?”, “yeah cause I don’t feel like I really got to go on the last one” 🤣🤣🤣💪
He will never admit that he was doing a Kate Winslet impression from Titanic.
After the air guitar competition, you know he was feeling good and attempted the impression. 😂
Nobody falls off a cruise ship unless doing something stupid like climbing or seating on the railings
😂😂 ahah imagine
I'll never let go Jack
Only around 25% of people survive after falling off a cruise ship. It’s pretty tragic, this man is a warrior.
@@Andy3739 please, get a life
28%
@@Andy3739 Quit advertising your grandson on the internet.
20 hours , he's a hero well done mate well done 👏
Not just tragic but also really inane.
Hats off to the coastguard for not giving up and full on searching for more than 20 hours! This guy is beyond lucky and God was with him!
Amen and Amen, Definitely it was God who was with him!
That must have been terrifying lucky guy .
Obviously.. God wasn't.
If he was.. I doubt God would have put him in situation to begin with.
But then again.. maybe you are right.
Maybe God is an A§§h0le
No one knew he was missing for most of that time. They didn't say how long they searched before he was found but it wasn't anywhere near 20 hours.
They started searching the next day, I think they said 12 hours after he'd gone missing
He was intoxicated. It's a miracle he didn't drown. He's blessed! ❤
Adrenaline will sober you up from almost all drugs. Fall off a cruise ship in to the ocean, see boat moving away. Pure human adrenaline dump, instant sobriety.
it's perseverence. The guy deserves the credit for wanting to live
God was with him for sure. He was not lying about that. I’m glad he’s safe
God would have done better not to let him fall overboard in the first place.
@@i.ehrenfest349 Thats not how things work. People have free will and can control their actions. Its not gods fault this man got drunk and fell off the ship but its definitely gods fault hes alive today.
@@skrt5700 Your cognitive contortions are amazing.
@@skrt5700free will someplaces but not others?
@@skrt5700 BS. God is fictional.
This dude had a strong will to live
But don’t remember how he ended up there 😭😂he remembers probably too embarrassed to say
You can't tell that he's a liar. He did it for attention. He had a floating device and ditched it the last second and it sank. Don't be deceived
@@blad89s65 Bingo.
@@musclerussell8109 A floating device sank? WTH?
@@musclerussell8109 why you say that because he said the Lord held him up
He wasn't passed out. He was blacked out.
You function fully, but with no regard for consequences, and no memory of what you did. Blacked out is scary as hell, when you think about it later.
100%
Transient global amnesia
Trauma causes memory loss too …..
built in safety device humans have.
You can never get the memories back from being blacked out either. It doesn’t matter how hard you try. My psychologist once likened it to being knocked out in a boxing match, in the sense of how much damage you do to your brain. I honestly shouldn’t be alive. But anyway, this guy was blacked out drunk no doubt and that’s actually probably what saved his life. He’s embarrassed and doesn’t want to admit it to the world. But we know. And he’s lucky.
I don't think he's embarrassed and doesn't want to admit it to the world, I think he drank way more than he should have but was still functioning so in his mind, he didn't make the connection that he wasn't actually functioning.
"A stick came floatin by and I started on it". Legend
And then he caught a tuna and macked on it 🙄
“I ain’t gon say it tasted good but it gave me a lil bit of flavor”
Sounded like "steak." Lol.
4 hours in and he’s already eating bamboo
Bamboo steak? @@lmc2375
It's a miracle that he's still alive. Nobody swims in cold water for 20 hours with alcohol in their blood. Any normal person would have frozen to death, drowned from exhaustion, or been attacked by a shark. Jesus was with him, there is no doubt about it.
He's a professional drunk
you say that it was god but if that’s the case doesn’t that mean god intentionally lets other innocent people suffer or die?
It wasn't cold water it was the gulf of mexico
Inebriation was with him, there is no doubt about it.
🙏🏾
You know you drunk when you fall off a cruise and you yourself didn’t know you fell off a cruise ship till you woke up in the ocean
Nah man he said he wasn’t drunk lol
He was still slurring in the interview 🤣
@@pablobeast1 lol the little pause when she asked if he had a few drinks. Sounded like he didn't want to talk about that part.
@@SubzeroCage 🤣🤣🤣
He wSn't drunk he just forgot how much he drank 🤣
Lol he ain’t admitting to being drunk he wants his settlement 😅
Exactly
They’ll just check the bar footage, he won’t get much of anything.
or he hit his head on the water when he fell and got a concussion
@@dominoes127 That and his sea card keeps track of every drink he buys
Doesn't matter if he is drunk. The cruise has the liability to keep its passengers safe. Unless they have footage of him running and throwing himself into the ocean, this man will get paid considerably. Railings should be high enough to prevent people tipping over into the ocean. That includes drunks. Which are expected to be aboard since they are serving alcohol. Furthermore, they have the liability to stop serving him alcohol if he appears intoxicated. Another legitimate argument that could be made in court is they continued to serve him which led to his fall. Big money coming his way.
I guarantee you after that air guitar competition he was so hyped/drunk he thought he was a rockstar and jump off the boat thinking he was jumping into the audience to go crowd surfing 😂😂😂
yes he was probably singing "Jump" by Van Halen
The truth probably isn't far off that, seriously 😂
To survive as a skilled swimmer for 20 hours is almost impossible, this is a true miracle as an amateur to survive that long
Anyone can float in salt water.
@@ptturboe5792 🤡🤡🤡
@@ptturboe5792 That's Actually not true. Even the biggest ships ever made find a way to sink all the time. You know how big the waves get in deep ocean? You have to tread water to remain above and with the current. Ya'll just get on here and say anything just to have some input
@@MYK-jd6uzit’s so easy to float on my back, just take breaks in between and go back to swimming. 20 hours is long though but possible
He went from Air Guitar champion to Water survival champion in less than 48 hours. Unbelievable story nonetheless
Yep, it needs to be a movie. Unfortunately I picture Will Ferrell being cast.
😂
Ha ha ha 😂🤮😎
😂😂😂 Omg I start laughing so hard
He’s gona be homeless champion in the next 6 months then Fentanyl champion in another 6 after that.
Guy treating the interview like its his first time at an AA meeting.
Honestly 😂 I’m convinced his chill demeanor saved him.
😂
My dad used to say if it's nobody's business tell them whatever you want. I think this guy has been talking to my dad. Nonetheless happy he is alive and well! ❤
😂 I love this!
I was rescued after a car crash, its the most wonderful feeling of relief to know your finally safed.
* Saved is the past tense of the verb safe. Have a good day sir.
She was pressing the topic of his level of intoxication for a second 😂
Probably at the behest of the cruise ship company and some money being passed under the table to cover their butts and make them feel better about what would happen if he changed his mind about a lawsuit or whatever, but that's just my speculation
Snake 🐍
Why would the cruise ship company be in trouble for some dude falling off the boat??
Also, having been on a cruise a couple times: Everyone is drunk all the time. Well, the majority of people are. And this guy sure as hell was. C’mon. Don’t be naive.
@@microaggressionsfirst thought
She's trying not to lol
"You didnt have a ton of drinks?"
Hard look left and a "no mam".
Checked with lawyer, then answered.
Lmao
noticed it too
Funny thing is a hard look left means he's telling the truth.
We look right to access creative brain centres aka why we need to lie, and we look leftfir non creative memory recall aka recalling facts.
Or so bl experts say.
@@bossywossy111I have always heard when you look left. But idk
20 hours treading water is absolutely amazing!
Everyone bashing on this dude, he’s an absolut legend.
It’s amazing how much strength you have when your life is dangling right in front of your eyes
every carb fat and protein in your body turns into glucose to fuel the fight or flight mode sympathethic nervous system supercharged engines in your body🐱👍🏿
@@fidelcatsro6948I’ll take a spare cat.
@@fidelcatsro6948 What 😂😂😂😂😂! U made it sound like he holding a ninja H2RR engine at that point
@@kisigma1011 Our bodies are much much much more advanced than any Kawasaki Supercharged engine anytime!
Sink or swim
When I first heard this on the news, my first question was: How can someone fall off a cruise ship ? After hearing him speak, I now understand.
So people with a southern accent are somehow idiotic?
@@TheDiverJim If the man was an idiot, he would not have been able to win an Air Guitar contest…..duh !
Btw……Did I miss the part where he explained how he ended up naked ?
@@petergozinya6122 "Idiot wouldn't have been able to win air guitar": LMAS🤣🤣🤣 His middle name is Jackass😆
@@petergozinya6122 if an idiot was going to win any contest in the entire world it would be an air guitar contest. Bar none.
@@petergozinya6122 😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣🤣
He probably never complains about anything in life anymore. Glad he made it 👍🏾
I cant think of a much worse death, my heart goes out to all the people that have found themselves in that situation (250+ a year apparently).
250 a year fall off board a cruise ship?
@@daniellelussier6195 more than that! 250 per year simply disappear never to be found again whilst in open ocean transit.
@@ymatT601 what! What do you think happens to them ?
This is some crazy unbelievable stuff. To be in the middle of the dark abyss at night and something bumping my leg is enough for me to die immediately of a heart attack
You'd be surprised how quickly you'd adapt to situations, no matter how scary it may be. Give yourself more credit lol
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😅😂😅😂😅😂 THANK YOU !!! 😂😂😂 That was funny and I needed a good laugh. I was SERIOUSLY HAVING the SAME EXACT THOUGHTS ! 👏🏻🏆👏🏻
@Nick-Hurr1990😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅 YEAH ME TOO !!!
Extraordinary! How on earth was he found?
For those who haven't figured it out, if he got drunk and decided to jump off he would have to pay for the rescue. That's why he "can't remember".
Waste of space... uses the God Saved me, bull... it was wasted tax dollars rescuing seone who admits he'll do it again!
Thank you D. I'll bookmark your comment for whenever I decide to jump off a Cruise Ship
Nobody can get anything over on you, you're way too smart. You're probably a millionaire and don't have to work.
Didn't think of that but it's 100% spot on! Hikers do the same thing when they get lost in the woods.
@@gregoryhall2967 I don't remember lost hikers saying that I can't remember.
Nice work with the sound, someone deserves a raise..!
This man didn’t freeze or drown, he kicked a probable shark away, and found a steak that was floating by? What god does this man pray to? Asking for a friend.
A STICK... not a steak 😂
@@kathjpullen😂😂😂😂
Dude this guy is hilarious I’m so glad he’s alive he’s so calm talking about like it’s something everyone goes through 😂
yeah you alcoholics make me laugh
He’s no drama queen now, is he
20 hours is a very long time to be in shark and jelly fish infested waters after falling off a Carnival Cruise ship, it was a true miracle, thank God and that Tanker for saving his life
I can only imagine that dude probably smelt like straight alcohol in the ocean which probably saved his life
@@yelloblitz01That’s a good one 👍
@@yelloblitz01lol the sharks were like drunk sweaty mountain man flavored snack? No thanks!
@@jdepaz5933😂😂😂
@@jdepaz5933 😂 that’s exactly what happened
This so story is so beautiful❤
Considering the first minute and a half of this interview she already asked him about drinks five times you know he was hammered. I've been on a cruise ship before and I certainly would never have just fallen off that giant ship
Bro partied on the cruise and with the sharks. My guy knows how to party!!!
Yeah partying can ruin your life
😂😂😂
Him finding a wrapper that said “life’s a beach enjoy the waves” in a pair of pants he was gonna take on the cruise is just insane😭
Hardly.
Fake
@@bradclooney69 ive had oddly specific things like this happen to me i believe him. God works in mysterious ways.
I don't gamble at all but when I was younger I had a dream about gambling and woke up on a pair of dice before, things can get really weird.
@@amethyste684Yes, he does!
I dont think a drunk person could swim for his life as long as he did ,this is totally amazing ,he has to be in top shape .......WOW 😮
GOD IS GOOD
Actually, it's better to be really drunk than sober when something like this happens, because you won't panic and expend as much energy and warmth that way. Read about Charles Joughin's stoicism on the Titanic: when the ship went down, he refused to go on a lifeboat and instead returned to the Titanic to enjoy some whisky. When it finally sank, he started swimming and survived.
@@davidhertog792 Very interesting. And also, aside from the role of alcohol in their survival, just as the baker from the Titanic's personality, this man's also seems cool and collected.
Well sounds like he inadvertently did the right thing...not really swimming so much as treading water.
Dude wholesome. I’m glad he’s still here
Regardless of how he wound up overboard, his survival is truly miraculous and inspiring. I'm glad you made it, James! I hope the best for you with a life well-lived with purpose and thankfulness.
Ur glad he made it....but what if he is a terrible abusive person and now his abuse can continue.. Still glad?
@@abab-ml1ym I’m sorry your life has been difficult.
@@abab-ml1ym why do people always think the worst?!! You don't even know the guy? Humans need help
@@abab-ml1ym hey man... shut up😀👍
@@abab-ml1ymwhat if he's not though.., and mostly is true
How do you pass out in the water and not drown? He definitely had some kind of divine intervention.
Happens alot..
He had God absolutely!!
It’s called a “dead man’s” float. It’s taught in all water survival classes whether military or paramilitary.
You lie on your stomach or back and relax and just float.
Of course doing it on your stomach you’re not sleeping but conserving energy.
When it’s not your time it’s not your time.
Yep those sharks were angels in disguise
Amen an angel held him up! 😇
😂’ he didn’t really get to go on that 1st cruise ‘ 🤣🤣
Blessed 🕊🙏🏼 I dearly hope he has a thorough check up sadly my dear cousin fell overboard at night yes he’s had a couple of drinks with his friends yet the black out which caused his fall was due to brain tumour… my cousin was found 3 weeks later very much dead … what wonders of life are instore for this young man I’m sure will be divine 🙏🏼
Falling off a cruise boat I. The middle of the ocean for 20 hours with kicking sea creatures away to be saved by coast guard and then next morning put on a pair of jeans with a fortune cookie “ life is a beach, enjoy the waves” that’s crazy ! The whole story is crazy glad this man was able to dig deep and fight for his life .
That's some movie type thing and even so people will say it's too corny that it would never happen and there he was
You can tell this moron isn't too bright and still hasn't grasped what happened and how lucky he was
@@DhumbleVibes i call BS. jk
that fortune cookie really threw me off
His story about how he got into the water is clearly something his lawyers rehearsed. If he actually told the truth then he would be screwed in a legal sense.
You don't accidently fall off a cruise ship
Sounds fishy ..the whole thing wreaks of alcohol and shrooms. And unless he's in the Dead Sea there's no way he would last that many hours without staying calm and floating on his back, not flailing around and spending extra energy...Well the only reasonable explanation is divine intervention. Save that one dude in the Ocean..😇
Agreed. I bet he grabbed a life preserver to take with him before he jumped. He also jumped when they were not too far out in a busy ship channel.
@@Mac-xo2zj It's not that you DON'T fall off a cruise ship, you CAN"T fall off a cruise ship, not without climbing UP and over the safety railing, he was three sheets into the wind and over the railing, and his middle name is Jackass🙄
@@s4dreamland671 "Alcohol and shrooms" Yep👍
Amazing wow. God Bless you ❤
He’s adorable. Glad he’s okay. And for everyone questioning and blaming him, it was probably his fault, but you’d have way more empathy if he was a woman. Be kind. Men need it too. ❤
I've taken that exact same cruise on Carnival out of New Orleans and it really is a miracle this man survived! That man had his guardian angel's protecting him! What a story! God blessed you young man! Make sure you figure out what God has for your life. 🙏
Those guardian angels should have blessed him with a frontal cortex.
That's easy. REPENT, STOP DRINKING AND FOLLOW AFTER JESUS. TRULY A MIRACLE OF GOD.
he is not alive, he died
Wow angels, gawds, what else are you going to assert?
Tes, the angels carried him
Dude’s kind of adorable. Polite and humble and grateful. I’m really glad he’s okay. ☺️
Gay?
@@WillThomas-hs3oj Female. But does it matter?
@@ahill4642 lol,.big difference between a female and male saying what u just said LOL
@@ahill4642 if I said that about him, woudnt It sound weird asf? Lol
@@WillThomas-hs3oj Not weird to me. Seems sad that you think calling someone of the same sex adorable automatically sounds like they’re gay. Boomer?
He is so calm and un-animated telling his story. Hope he uses his testament for good!
The Most Important part of this Interview was him saying
"The Lord Was With Me"
This is Apart of his TESTIMONY !!!
Like Jonah in the Whale
Noah in the Ark !!!
He's Warrior
May God Bless Him in Jesus Name
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
This guy was drunk during this interview he must of been hammered when he fell off 😂
I love this guy. He is truly a fighter. I think that even sharks were afraid to approach him. Glad to see you alive and full of positive energy.
Thank God ❤
Amazing!
Glad you are safe!
You will appreciate your life much more now, even all the problems iyou may face in life
This don't just happen man, you were meant to live. Nobody could survive this and you did the impossible. There is a reason you are still here now go out and find it!
Amen! There's a reason he's still alive!
Actually...people do survive this. About 25% of people who fall off cruise ships survive... so your statement "nobody could survive" is incorrect.
@@thetruepatriot773325 percent is still very little. Not “nobody” but still little chance
Lol but how many of those 25% survivors were in the water for 20+ hours? Think logically dumbo.
@@JoseGomez-cj1tqluck thats what he have ,like eurojackpot only a few wins
If he doesn’t remember how many drinks he had, he was absolutely drunk! A person can remember 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 drink. He can’t recall. He’s so blessed to not have been attacked by any sharks and to have survived this whole ordeal.
Yeah because you know everyone’s ability don’t you.
@@smoke617Where did they say that?
Someone above said it was so he wouldn't have to pay for the rescue
Wow this is truly inspirational❤❤
There is a reason for this man being still alive. This is nothing less than divine intervention
Her questioning sounds like she is trying to protect the cruise ship company
Protect them from what? The guy was wasted and fell off the cruise ship. Why should they be liable for any of that
@TwampGod common sense and personal responsibility has never been a lawyers strong suit. Remember the guy that dropped the grandkid out the cruise window,they tried suing.
Silly comment, the cruise ship is in no way liable for his actions. It takes a lot of effort to fall off a cruise ship, the railing is chest high. This guy was drunk.
How so? You can’t just make a statement like that without backing it up. It’s worth mentioning that if I were to leave a bar wasted and killed someone while I was driving home, I wouldn’t be the only one receiving charges.
@@trustno1167that’s not the same thing at all. Of course they are going to blame it on someone else. I’m sure it’s hard to accept that your dad killed your baby.
What if he was using the bathroom and accidentally flushed while still sitting on the toilet? I bet he shot out of the ship like a torpedo and was miles away when he starting slowing down
He's extremely lucky, but cruise lines should ban him from any future trips. If he gets so inebriated that he falls overboard, he's a risk not worth taking.
But what are the odds that one guys falls of two cruise ships
@thomasreed3210 judging by this interview this guy isn't very bright 🤣 I wouldn't put it past him falling off another cruise ship
He is truly blessed! That has to be a miracle!
Thankful for the Rescuers!!!! Great Job Guys!!!!!
Nobody falls overboard.
He was in an air guitar contest.
He won.
Other contestant drunk and resentful.
Follows him and pushes him over.
He survives.
Are there cameras to show what really happened?
Now this made me really laugh outloud
😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂 i literally laughed out loud
Hahahahaha these are the real truths I’m looking for 🤣🤣🤣
Unbelievable story,how he was spotted is nothing short of miraculous 😳
Determine to survive this is motivation god bless
God bless him. Pretty amazing that he survived.
I admire your spirit. If you can tread water for 20 hours, you are very strong, I learned the dead man's float" in the Marine Corps, which is totally restful and requires no effort. Bravo, young man.
Can you describe the dead man's float ?
@@dreamcatcher5502 when your tired from swimming you lay on your back to regain strength and just float and continue when your ready
Be sure he was floating...A Lot.
Even if he never had successfully before, I’m sure he had to try. And watching TV, or others in the past, doing it, he had examples to go by. Salt water also keeps you more buoyant.
Ppl commenting here who are rescuers, etc, are saying he must have been floating part of the time. Which I was thinking, regardless. I’m not a big time swimmer, myself...or floater. But you can bet if I was out in open water, I’d certainly be putting that to the test! And being on the coast, the bay here def is easier to tread water in, than the lakes.
I prefer swimming in the lake, however. Walking & wading, the ocean.
@@dreamcatcher5502 Yeah. In the water vertically, like standing, take a deep breath and just hang your head forward, down in the water so that now only the back of your head is above water. Rest and hang there for ten seconds, rest. Then start to release air slowly while you spread your legs into a small step forward position, while you slide your arms up beside your body. Then slowly put arms out to the side so that now your body is in a T shape while legs spread like walking. When all your air is out you kick legs to push up your body while you lift your head and breathe while you use your arms to push down while you fill up your lungs. Then hang free again and rest with face underwater again and think of something else. Repeat for one hour for Red Cross Water Safety Instructor. Peace.
Not always. Some people have more body fat to muscle ratio and don’t have to tread at all. When I use to lifeguard we had this fat girl lifeguard. She was so buoyant she could barely swim under water. It was wild.
I'm glad he is OK. But, I cannot comprehend how a person can just end up overboard.
Sounds like he was pretty drunk
@RamenChef Are you nuts? This is the perfect account of someone who blacked out. Can't say how many he had. Remembered events early in the night. Doesn't remember going to the bathroom or falling off the ship. Blackout drunk. He wasn't "passed out" in the water, he simply doesn't remember the early minutes/hours of being in the water.
@RamenChef yeah he's lying. he then goes onto say he can't say how many drinks he had after perfectly describing what it's like to black out.
He looks like he was lying and trying to come up with what to say but yeah he's forsure one of the few dumbasses that jump over board
@@lchurch1 o good, I’m glad he said he wasn’t drunk. You know who also says they aren’t drunk? People driving after they kill a family or that drive the wrong way on freeways. Also the same people who get caught driving drunk also say they haven’t drank for hours yet still blow 2 times the legal limit. Ya probably wasn’t drunk though.
What a guy. A great example for any boy and man.
And listen good as he was waking up in the water with the boat already out of sight... God does the most amazing miracles.
"A great example for any boy and man"
Really?
Became wasted drunk during an air guitar contest (air guitar alone ain't a great exemple...), took his clothes off (did you miss that part?), jumped overboard (the only way to pass those railling is to climb/jump them), lied about the circumstances in an interview and let's not forget the slurry southern accent "yes ma'am, God was with me, duh!" and you still think he's any kind of exemple?
America is doomed.
@SgtDuster yes, first of all in your fantasy he is lying. I dont claim he speaks the truth but neither you can proof what really happened before.
The only thing we both are 100% sure of is that he spent 20 hours in the cold sea surviving. With sharks.
And that is what any boy and any man can take as a great example. no matter how hopeless it seems and how tired you are you dont have to give up, but go on and trust in God.
That guy had the universe on his side and still does. The same pants and the day of the interview he found that fortune? Thats amazing
This dude swam for 20 hours, after already being up most like another 15 hours prior to that. Insane. I wouldn’t have made it
Then you have the kid who jumped off the boat in the Bahamas and was taken by sharks in 20 seconds.
@@stevemorlock5366exactly what I was thinking of.
Swam for 20 hours after 20 beers
While being drunk
Dolphins are amazing creatures and they have saved many people’s lives. The fin he saw could have been a dolphin, they are known to help wounded people and bringing them back to shore. Either way, God definitely is the one who was looking out for him. I wonder if the water was freezing cold and how he was able to stay swimming for 20 hours. That’s just unbelievably insane, this man is meant to be here for something.
totally.
I love dolphins sometimes. I wouldn’t swim with them willingly though lol they tend to be a bit rape-y. I do think it was a dolphin who saved him though which is incredible. Lovely creatures sometimes, just like all animals I suppose.
He is here to drink more
Navy seal style
I do believe it. But I've never seen any records of them saving people like that. Have you? Movies and made up stories like this one don't count.
Love the way his lawyer was clearly in the room telling him not to answer certain questions.
I dont get all the negativity. My guy needs the try out for the Coast Guard rescue swimmers. Amazing survival instinct and stamina.
You're ok paying for this guy to get rescued? He don't even have the decency to admit fault. He can't remember how many drinks he had but he remembers winning an air guitar contest!
For real. 20 hours💪
@@lionessprowess3581he wasted our tax dollar money
@@XoXoG haha!! chill out. thats what tax money is for.
@@Veritas-dq2hs exactly they okay with government handouts to foreign countries and citizens but always claim anything that helps and American citizens it’s always wasting our tax dollars what are they for if not to help the lives of our citizens 🧐🧐
This story is unbelievable and a true miracle.
No, it's not.
@wholeshebang1 of course you would say that.
It’s fake
Cant believe a man can fall off a boat and get saved?...awkward
@@abab-ml1ym ?
Blessings
Well done Sir❣️
As a helicopter SAR swimmer one of the first things they taught us is how to conserve energy by floating, treading water and drown proofing. It’s difficult without being hammered.
Being hammered makes it less difficult? 🤣
@@jvincemusicno they're saying it hard to do sober so it's probably way harder to do if you're drunk.
@@jvincemusicL comprehension
@@jvincemusicYep, it relaxes your body and mind
'Drown proofing' = not being in water.
Dude is strong and strong willed. Glad he survived 💞.
Ur glad a stranger survived without knowing the content of his character. He could have been trying to hurt or abuse someone and got thrown off or slipped off in a struggle trying to hurt someone. And u dont know if hes an evil sinner who will now harm more people.....but ur glad...
Did you not hear him say God was with him. He’s a believer and his faith got him through this event .
@@abab-ml1ymwhat ??
@@abab-ml1ymStop spamming this around idiot.
Blessed…
Thats insane, the ocean isnt the same as swimming in a pool or lake the ocean will truly hunble anyone. This is completely remarkable
It took 12 hours for his family to notice he was missing???
Hell. If I go outside a piss of the porch for more than two minutes my wife comes looking for me.
PLOT TWIST: THEY ACTUALLY WANTED TO WAIT 7 DAYS
I thought that was strange too
Because they were probably drunk or almost drunk and figured he was somewhere hooking up or partying
I can’t go grab a beer without the wife asking me what I’m doing. How did he get a 12 hr pass. On a cruise ship?
I'm so happy he got rescued ☺️
He rescued himself.
@@rickmerritt128 he did? He called the helicopter rescue team that picked him up and he owned the helicopter? Huh, they should tell us that in the news when reporting it
Why?...do u know if hes a serial murderer or not?
@@rickmerritt128 no..... Wake up the coast guard did.. U just saw the story and still got it wrong...whats wrong with kids these days and reallity.. Its like they are allergic to facts.
@@abab-ml1ym
ok boomer
Dude as tough as nails. RESPECT.
So glad he’s ok, thank God!! Love his determination to live
Also deserves a movie
"127 Hours" comes to mind.
Got Drunk and Fell Off a Cruise Ship: Scene 1 🎬
Amateur you tube short reenactment
Wow this guy is amazing, i love the way he sounds , he had alot of respect by saying ma'am to the interviewer , he is not letting one bad moment spoil or ruin his day or his cruise so that is great to know.
God definitely was with you on this cruise, glad you survived.
In the south saying sir or ma'am is just polite.
That's funny, in kentucky here I've called woman "maam" and they have been offended, saying it makes them sound old. 😆
@@apexnextyeah if they are young and unmarried then you say miss instead. You have to be the judge on each encounter.
Traditional, southern families train their children to speak this way
Even when he was lying?
I’d be willing to bet he went to hurl in the bathroom, found a railing on the way and accidentally fell puking, he was drunk, on a ship.
Hitting the water probably knocked him out for a few seconds and knocked the memory of the fall out of him too. He’s lucky he didn’t fall from somewhere he impacted another rail or lower deck before he hit the water. Everyone on a cruise ship should be required to wear a device that sounds an alarm if that device exits the perimeter of the ship. All the technology we have these days and it seems it’s not being used for safety anywhere
This theory sounds the most plausible. They really should have something that can alert crew if someone goes over. Especially with the tech we have now a days with how often it happens
that dude was hammered when he fell off that boat.....and im pretty sure he had a 6 pack before the interview too
Man has a true reason for being here in my opinion
The air guitar championship
20 hours is impossible to tread water for that long. God was definitely with This man. God bless him
Nah it was Santa Claus and the Easter bunny teamed up with Aquaman to save him. Flipper and lassie went and got help from the cost guard. It was a fairly tail group effort. But the tooth fairy was a little jelly she missed out.
@@smoke617your miserable 😂
That’s right brother
@@smoke617sounds like someone who really believes in God but has a beef with Him. Attacking your fellow man won’t help. Father bless this man. I bind bitterness and loosen Your goodness on his life in Jesus name Amen
its imposible bro 20 hours afther 3/4 uur you cant swim more lets say 10 hours but more is impossible to swim its fake
Gods work. Incredible. Hopefully a valuable lesson learned.
Thank God
“ The Lord was with me”❤ This is Amazing❤
Is the Lord with children in war torn countries?
@@ComeBackKid1 yes he is! And trust me when he comes back vengeance is definitely his! Don’t blame him for the problem that man has created for their selves.
@@ComeBackKid1 Yes he is with them too. War is an evil thing that man does to hurt people and people have free will which some people use to do wicked things. God doesn’t allow Pain to last forever and although children dying is a very very sad thing the blessing about death is that it ends suffering. God doesnt not allow man to hurt them forever. I would not want my loved one’s in pain forever.
@@princessleah6826 You’re brainwashed by man made religious cults.
@@princessleah6826 Koo story bro , you’re brainwashed.