Featured Image Credit: Inside Edition
Topics: Cruise Ship, Viral, Travel
Joe Harker
A man who survived jumping off a cruise ship admitted that it had actually been a spectacularly bad idea and that he 'didn't really think it through'.
He'd willingly made the leap and been filmed by his friends in an attempt to go viral, but he very nearly plunged himself into a watery grave.
See, when someone goes overboard from a cruise ship there's all sorts of procedures in place to deal with it, but a vast majority of the people who go into the water don't come back out alive.
Your chances of falling overboard from a cruise ship are very slim, but it doesn't help if you jump off and into the water yourself for the sake of social media clout.
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American man, Nick Naydev, seemingly learned his lesson after leaping from the 11th floor of the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Symphony of the Seas while it was docked in Nassau, Bahamas.
As Nick leapt off the ship, his friends filmed him and laughed while the man landed into shark-infested water after a 100ft drop.
Fortunately, he managed to avoid serious injury as water won't cushion your fall all that much if you plummet from a great height, but said he could certainly feel the impact in his tailbone and neck.
Nick later admitted to Inside Edition in 2019 that he didn't want people to follow his example.
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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.
"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."
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Royal Caribbean ended up banning Nick and his friends from their cruises for life.
In a statement, they called the stunt 'stupid and reckless', adding that they were 'exploring legal action'.
Other passengers who've gone overboard the Symphony of the Seas haven't been so lucky, with one person having fallen from the ship and to their death in the past.
In other incidents involving the cruise ship, a couple didn't get back on in time as they missed the last call for boarding by 50 minutes and could only watch from the shore as the ship sailed away.
A member of staff aboard the Symphony of the Seas was also arrested for allegedly placing hidden cameras in passenger's bathrooms.