A 42-year-old woman was rescued after a terrifying fall from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship on Sunday.
The passenger fell from the 10th floor deck of the Mariner of the Seas into the sea below as the ship sailed about 27 nautical miles south of Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.
The boat, which departed from Port Canaveral in Florida for an eight-day round-trip journey, was en route to Willemstad in Curaçao at the time of the incident, U.S. Coast Guard officials told Fox 35 Orlando.
“After we saw…the life preservers and the smoke, I was like, someone just died,” passenger Matthew Kuhn told the outlet. “I think it was amazing to see everyone was on their balcony. Everyone was trying to help, and the crew was very receptive to everyone.”
“To go from, ‘She’s probably not going to be found,’ — and ‘It’s a body recovery,’ versus ‘Holy c—, they found her, …