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New York Post
02-07-2025
- New York Post
Hero dad on Disney cruise did not place daughter on railing before her horrifying plunge, investigation reveals
The father of a 5-year-old girl who fell overboard from a Disney cruise ship off the coast of Florida did not lift her up onto the railing before the accident, authorities have said. 3 A 5-year-old girl fell overboard on Disney a cruise before her dad jumped into the ocean after her. CMD-91/TikTok 3 The dad was treading water for 20 minutes before rescue teams arrived. NoeAyala32/TikTok Advertisement The 'little girl was not being held, as erroneously reported on some social media sites,' the Broward County Sheriff's Office told CBS News Miami on Tuesday, referring to speculation that the child's father had lifted her up for a photo before she fell backwards and smacked into the ocean. The terrifying accident happened on Sunday aboard the Disney Dream cruise ship as it sailed between the Bahamas and Fort Lauderdale. After the girl fell in, her father jumped into the ocean to save her, and treaded water for more than 10 minutes until a rescue boat approached them, cell phone video from the incident shows. Advertisement A fellow passenger also came to the dad's defense amid the speculation, insisting that a crew member told her that the little girl scaled the protective barrier. 3 The investigation debunks an 'erroneous' rumor that the girl's father had placed her on the railing before she fell. AP 'The crew member who said that's her station and she was on the fourth floor, she did say that she was climbing up and the parents were playing shuffleboard and the dad jumped in after her,' Monica Shannon told CBS News Miami.
New York Post
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Disney cruise passenger recalls ‘loud' sounds they heard when young girl fell off ship before hero dad dove in to save her
A Disney cruise passenger described the harrowing sound made when a young girl fell off the ship and smacked into the ocean before her father bravely dove in and saved her. The passenger, named Chandler, recalled the frightening screams and the moment the girl hit the water, which she said sounded 'nothing like if you jump into a pool.' 'There was some kind of commotion,' Chandler told People magazine. 3 A passenger on board the Disney Dream cruise ship is describing the moment a father and daughter went overboard Noe-Ayala875/TikTok 'Then this awful scream from what I assume is the mother and then this massive splash,' she continued. 'It sounded like hitting pavement, nothing like if you jump into a pool, it was so loud.' The girl fell from the fourth deck of the Disney Dream ship on Sunday as they traveled between Nassau and Grand Bahama Island, according to the Disney Dream Cruise Ship Facebook Group. A man identified as her father immediately jumped in after her and treaded water for 20 minutes until one of the cruise ship's rescue boat arrived. Video posted to TIkTok by Chandler shows the dramatic moment the crew members pulled the pair to safety. 3 A man identified as her father immediately jumped in after her and treaded water for 20 minutes until one of the cruise ship's rescue boat arrived. NoeAyala32/TikTok 3 Both passengers were safely returned to the ship, and no injuries were reported. CMD-91/TikTok It's not exactly clear how the child fell, however one witness recounted the 'horrific' scene to NBC News, saying the child fell from a railing. 'She was sitting on the rail, and he wanted to take a picture, and she fell off,' Gar Frantz told the outlet. 'We were just on that deck. And then you saw them throwing, like, life jackets over the sides and stuff.'
