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Man explained what he was thinking after jumping off 11th deck of a cruise ship and surviving

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Published 14:08 8 Mar 2025 GMT

Man explained what he was thinking after jumping off 11th deck of a cruise ship and surviving

Don't try this at home, even if you somehow have a cruise ship to hand

James Moorhouse

James Moorhouse

Featured Image Credit: Inside Edition

Topics: Cruise Ship, Holiday, Viral

James Moorhouse
James Moorhouse

James is a NCTJ Gold Standard journalist covering a wide range of topics and news stories for LADbible. After two years in football writing, James switched to covering news with Newsquest in Cumbria, before joining the LAD team in 2025. In his spare time, James is a long-suffering Rochdale fan and loves reading, running and music. Contact him via [email protected]

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A man banned by Royal Caribbean has opened up on his reckless decision to jump off a cruise ship's 11th deck after a night of drinking.

We've all made bad decisions after a few beers, but American man Nick Naydev took things to the next level when he launched himself from around 100ft into shark-infested waters. Anything to avoid texting that ex, I suppose.

A cold water plunge can certainly work to sober you up and shake off any hangover, but it might ever-so-slightly be safer to do so in your local pool rather than from the top decks of a cruise ship off the coast of the Bahamas.

But Nick, seemingly egged on by his close friends and the idea of going viral, decided that while Royal Caribbean's largest ship, Symphony of the Seas, was docked in Nassau, he would jump into the water below.

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We've all seen movie stars jumping from helicopters or rockets into the ocean and coming up safely but the reality is that hitting water from a great height can be similar to hitting concrete, due to the immense force of impact caused by the sudden deceleration when you hit the water at high speed.

Nick Naydev jumped 100ft into shark infested waters (Inside Edition)
Nick Naydev jumped 100ft into shark infested waters (Inside Edition)

And Nick was very lucky to avoid death, let alone serious injury, after his drunken dive. He opened up about his decision, and regrets, in an interview with Inside Edition back in 2019.

He said: "I remember hitting the water, impact was pretty big 'cause it was pretty high up. It impacted my tailbone and my neck pretty hard, luckily it wasn't anything serious.

"Nothing was really going through my mind. I'm like, 'I gotta do this,' and just two seconds later, I just jumped and didn't really think it through.

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"The previous night we were drinking quite a bit so I was still feeling the effects of the alcohol.

"I hope I don't inspire anybody to do this because it is very dangerous, I mean they'll think this is a joke."

WARNING: Explicit language

In his Instagram comments at the time, he added: "What they told me shocked me. They told me that nobody dare swim in that water where I jumped because […] it was infested with sharks.

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"So I was pretty lucky to be alive."

Unsurprisingly, Royal Caribbean weren't too impressed with Nick's actions and promptly told him that he and his friends wouldn't be welcomed back on to any of their cruises, just in case they were planning another dodgy dive in Dominica. Perhaps he was put off cruises anyway.

A Royal Caribbean spokesperson said at the time: "This was stupid and reckless behaviour, and he and his companions have been banned from ever sailing with us again. We are exploring legal action."

Please DO NOT try this at home.

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