Current Events > That kid who jumped off the cruise ship def got eaten by sharks

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Was it confirmed a shark? I saw something but thought it could be the reflection of the lights from the boat.

Hoodroar posted...

Why are people saying he should've grabbed the buoy? The shark was in that direction. He was screwed.

Exactly. He turned away from his one lifeline and we the opposite direction from the buoy and the opposite direction that the ship was going. That makes no sense. There are slowed down videos and freeze frames that show the first shark for sure.

Ratchetrockon posted...

I saw the shark at around 3 sec mark on the left side of the screen it looks small tho

Its sort of hard to tell sometimes, but even a shark the size of your arm can bite your arm off. Besides, I personally think there were at least two sharks on the camera:

The first one that scared him away from the buoy and then it looked like one came in from the top of the frame at his legs before the camera moved to the buoy. When the camera moved back, you could quickly see the first shark (or another one) coming from the left and it looked a lot bigger. Then he was going underwater when the camera got back to him.

I wish that we could isolate the sound and cut out the background stuff to hear what he was shouting.

I'm just picturing his dad running into someone a couple years later.

"So Bill, is your kid still in college?"

"No, he uh....he jumped off a cruise ship in the middle of the night on a dare and was immediately eaten by sharks."

Was it an actual cruise ship? And it was moving?

dude probably got sucked into the propellers if thats the case.

fucking Darwin Award winner here.

LoZguy709 posted...

This board is weird, feeling more deeply for a spendthrift Miami man getting a tough life lesson than a kid who lost everything on a stupid, impulsive decision and likely had a really traumatic last few moments.

Its hard to feel sorry for someone that does something so incredibly stupid like this.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/8/5/AABqZUAAEhnt.jpg

The buoy is on the left, the guy is on the right, and the shark is in the middle. This is right before he, for whatever reason, swam away from the buoy. Why would you swim away from the one thing that could save you? You can also see a big splash right where the shark is in the middle if you watch the videos in slow motion.

fan357 posted...

Its hard to feel sorry for someone that does something so incredibly stupid like this.

Man, y'all are cold. It is in fact not hard to feel sorry that a family just lost a member of their family shortly after he graduated school and was moving on to his next phase of life

I wonder if his friends even feel bad about this

emblem-man posted...

Man, y'all are cold. It is in fact not hard to feel sorry that a family just lost a member of their family shortly after he graduated school and was moving on to his next phase of life

I feel bad for his family. I dont feel bad for HIM.

emblem-man posted...

Man, y'all are cold. It is in fact not hard to feel sorry that a family just lost a member of their family shortly after he graduated school and was moving on to his next phase of life

It's easy to sympathize with a family that lost a loved one. It's not as easy to empathize with an 18 year old that willingly jumped into shark infested waters in the dead of night on a lark.

Its ok to feel pity for the stupid. Drunk people do dumb things and having low IQ doesnt mean you deserve to suffer a horrible death.

-Kicksave- posted...

Its ok to feel pity for the stupid. Drunk people do dumb things and having low IQ doesnt mean you deserve to suffer a horrible death.

Yup it's tragic actually. Just graduated all set for college and he gets drunk and does this. A family now devastated at senseless loss. It angering actually.

emblem-man posted...

Man, y'all are cold. It is in fact not hard to feel sorry that a family just lost a member of their family shortly after he graduated school and was moving on to his next phase of life

it kinda is when you google it and find out 180,000+ people die every day

Darwin'd himself

Dude forgot to hit the quicksave button before trying that stunt.

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Seaman_Prime posted...

the ocean is so fucking scary

https://neal.fun/deep-sea/

Sleep tight!

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Do you feel bad for people that jump into the cages in the zoo?

VeggetaX posted...

I wonder if his friends even feel bad about this

Having grown up in Baton Rouge (where theyre from), I would say no.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/0/6/AABqZUAAEhoC.jpg

fan357 posted...

Do you feel bad for people that jump into the cages in the zoo?

I'm still rubbing one out for Harambe.

Euripides posted...

I've been on about a dozen cruises, and unless the moon is full and there are no clouds, you can't see 20 yards from the ship. It's just a chasm of black

Are there no stars in the sky?

that could be waves, but let's say it was a shark. is it worse to die painfully eaten alive, but likely more quickly, or trying to survive for x-amount of time and eventually drowning? poor kid.

and yeah, clearly not the smartest thing for him to do, but where the fuck are the people around him? if i was there, i'm stopping him from jumping off a ship into the middle of the fucking ocean. even if i'm drunk, i'm trying. and even if people are gonna boo me for being a buzzkill.

Payzmaykr posted...

You can see it in the video. There are people who slowed it down and you see the shark whip around in front of him. Then he swam the opposite direction. When the camera panned to the life ring, you could see a shark surface by his legs, but when the camera came back, he was being dragged under. The shark looked pretty big, too. They follow ships to eat stuff that gets thrown over.

RIP

Sorry, forgot to post link, although the video is not in this. Idk if I would get in trouble for posting it.
https://news.yahoo.com/louisiana-high-school-graduate-fell-153429223.html

I just saw the video on youtube. You guys can find it by typing in "lousinana teen shark cruise ship" in the search. The video is pretty disturbing considering how desensitized the kids were. One even had the audacity to say "oh bye bye!" right when the sharks appeared. How effed up is that? I hate our future generation.

Yeah, as others have been saying, my point was just that it's all around tragic and it's incredibly easy to feel terrible for all the people involved here. I also found it funny, coming out of a topic this morning in which people were defending a guy who came back with from a club with a woman whose origin we don't know at 5:30 in the morning to find himself drugged and robbed. The latter has a far higher degree of culpability for the consequences that came his way if you ask me (not to mention, the dude could have just poured and his own drink and not sip it after leaving it unguarded with a stranger, it being his place and all), and the worst that happened to him was that he lost a lot of shit he probably didn't need. So this board is a bit morally skewed is all. But you guys be you.

Getting drug and robbed by a thief is a whole lot different than jumping into shark infested waters. Like the two aren't even comparable.

A_Good_Boy posted...

Getting drug and robbed by a thief is a whole lot different than jumping into shark infested waters. Like the two aren't even comparable.

From the standpoint of putting yourself into dangerous situations, I think they are very comparable, but one shows a more drawn out period of neglect for one's own safety.

https://imgur.com/p5EutPA.gif

itcheyness posted...

https://neal.fun/deep-sea/

Sleep tight!

That is so fucking cool!

LoZguy709 posted...

From the standpoint of putting yourself into dangerous situations, I think they are very comparable, but one shows a more drawn out period of neglect for one's own safety.

No they're not at all comparable. People hook up with other people that they encounter out on the town and bars all the time. This lady took advantage of the guy by putting drugs in his drink and stealing his belongings. Sharks literally eat people as par and this teen jumped into the water them in the dead of night.

A_Good_Boy posted...

Getting drug and robbed by a thief is a whole lot different than jumping into shark infested waters. Like the two aren't even comparable.

It surprised most people here that shark packs routinely tail human vessels in search of disposed scraps. Add to the fact that the ship was more like a big sailboat then a cruise ship and yeah, I can see an 18 year old with a few drinks in them not knowing better. Stupid? Absolutely. But not dumber than getting robbed by a random hookup, which every guy has heard of.

LoZguy709 posted...

From the standpoint of putting yourself into dangerous situations, I think they are very comparable, but one shows a more drawn out period of neglect for one's own safety.

It's not acceptable to blame someone for being drugged.

But it's absolutely fine to not show sympathy to someone that jumped into shark infested waters on a dare and got eaten

zhangliao1 posted...

It's not acceptable to blame someone for being drugged.

But it's absolutely fine to not show sympathy to someone that jumped into shark infested waters on a dare and got eaten

Please don't misconstrue what I said to be saying he deserved to be drugged. He just had a higher degree of deliberation in a situation that ended up going poorly for him. I'm thankful to hear that nothing worse happened to him, even though things could have gone even further south when you think about the possibilities that come with that vulnerability. And as Kicksave said, a lot of people aren't aware of what lies below cruise ships, especially at age 18.

-Kicksave- posted...

It surprised most people here that shark packs routinely tail human vessels in search of disposed scraps. Add to the fact that the ship was more like a big sailboat then a cruise ship and yeah, I can see an 18 year old with a few drinks in them not knowing better. Stupid? Absolutely. But not dumber than getting robbed by a random hookup, which every guy has heard of.

The information that sharks routinely trail boats would be a complete shock and surprise to anyone that's never been on a boat, but even for a first time visitor on a boat this is information that the guy would know. The company running the boat is a business and they'd have to inform all of their guests what to do in the case of an emergency and the sorts of dangers that they'd run into if someone were to accidentally fall overboard or the what to do if the boat were sinking. It's hard to believe that the people on the boat would have no idea that the water is incredibly cold and hard to swim in, that you can't see anything once you swim a few feet away from the boat, or that there were sharks trailing in the water.

LoZguy709 posted...

Please don't misconstrue what I said to be saying he deserved to be drugged. He just had a higher degree of deliberation in a situation that ended up going poorly for him. I'm thankful to hear that nothing worse happened to him, even though things could have gone even further south when you think about the possibilities that come with that vulnerability. And as Kicksave said, a lot of people aren't aware of what lies below cruise ships, especially at age 18.

Dude, I knew that before I could even swim.

A_Good_Boy posted...

The information that sharks routinely trail boats would be a complete shock and surprise to anyone that's never been on a boat, but even for a first time visitor on a boat this is information that the guy would know. The company running the boat is a business and they'd have to inform all of their guests what to do in the case of an emergency and the sorts of dangers that they'd run into if someone were to accidentally fall overboard or the what to do if the boat were sinking. It's hard to believe that the people on the boat would have no idea that the water is incredibly cold and hard to swim in, that you can't see anything once you swim a few feet away from the boat, or that there were sharks trailing in the water.

Ive been on several Carnival ships, booze cruises back in the day, and deep sea fishing excursions. Not ONCE did the operator ever say, oh by the way, shark packs follow us.

Obviously Im not crazy enough to jump in the water in open seas outside of scuba diving but its not true that most people would know there are shark packs on the heels of boats.

Payzmaykr posted...

Dude, I knew that before I could even swim.

Well congrats on being ahead of the curve there. I acknowledged it was a stupid decision. Also impulsive, meaning he may not have been thinking through things practically in those few seconds he responded to his friend's dare.

seeing as he's able to swim it was a fully conscious decision and not one made in a drunken stupor and he proved to his friends that he wouldn't back down from a dare.

his prize? the darwin award.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/5/6/AABqZUAAEho0.jpg

This is an outline of one of the sharks coming in at him. The guy is on the right and the shark is on the left.

You can slow the footage down and very clearly see a big one coming up on him before the camera moves. Right at his legs from beneath. Then his entire body looked red, like the light was reflecting off bloody water, or it might have pulled him a couple feet under by then.

Could it have been a dolphin? They're creepy AF too.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/6/0/AANbh0AAEho4.jpg

Imit8m3 posted...

Imagine being the kid who told him to jump overboard... Like, bro is responsible for his friends death! Not legally, he did the dumb thing without being forced. But if he hadn't said it, his friend would still be alive.
He's going to need therapy.

We really should criminalize daring people to kill or maim themselves though. Less severe crime than manslaughter or negligent homicide, but I could see it being just below that it happens far too frequently to be legal.

an absolute moron.

burns112233 posted...

Could it have been a dolphin? They're creepy AF too.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/6/0/AANbh0AAEho4.jpg

NO WAY. It was during night time in one of the most saturated shark spots in the world. There's apparently 40 different species of sharks that swim around there and they're more inclined to swarm around large cruise ships as well. I think the person who dared the child to jump over should face criminal charges. Unintentional or not, the person who offered the dare created a situation where their negligence of preventing a foreseeable situation ultimately killed the child. Had they not asked the child to jump of the ship, he wouldn't have died. I hope someone fesses up and takes accountability.

Stop calling him a child, he's 18 lol.

Also to the other guy, You don't have to know sharks follow boats in order to know it's dangerous to jump out of one in the middle of the night

Again, many people not considering how quickly this stuff can happen among dumb adolescents. I'll admit I haven't watched the video, but if this happens in a matter of minutes even, guys can lose the best of their logic for that amount of time. Maybe not me, but some dudes I may have called friends in the past. You can call it Darwinism all you want, and I won't tell you you're wrong. It's just kind of telling how quickly people are to find amusement out of this kid/guy/dude's terrible, unfortunate, fatal experience.

Chances are he drowned. The shark may have attacked him. But the chances they are him are low. Sharks dont like the taste of humans much But the splashing would attract them, and they would absolutely check it out

Iamdepressed posted...

I just saw the video on youtube. You guys can find it by typing in "lousinana teen shark cruise ship" in the search. The video is pretty disturbing considering how desensitized the kids were. One even had the audacity to say "oh bye bye!" right when the sharks appeared. How effed up is that? I hate our future generation.

I heard that kid, too That was cold They didnt even care about their friend

pauIie posted...

and yeah, clearly not the smartest thing for him to do, but where the fuck are the people around him? if i was there, i'm stopping him from jumping off a ship into the middle of the fucking ocean. even if i'm drunk, i'm trying. and even if people are gonna boo me for being a buzzkill.

Yeah. I feel like I would have tried to stop someone from jumping over, as well

A_Good_Boy posted...

Sharks literally eat people as par

While sharks do attack people (but not a lot), they rarely eat people

burns112233 posted...

Could it have been a dolphin? They're creepy AF too.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/6/0/AANbh0AAEho4.jpg

I was wondering that, myself The shape looked more like a dolphin to me Ans honestly, thats probably worse Even sharks are scared of dolphins

-Kicksave- posted...

Ive been on several Carnival ships, booze cruises back in the day, and deep sea fishing excursions. Not ONCE did the operator ever say, oh by the way, shark packs follow us.

Obviously Im not crazy enough to jump in the water in open seas outside of scuba diving but its not true that most people would know there are shark packs on the heels of boats.

Even if you didn't know that there were sharks in the water you'd still be informed enough before the boat even took off on the myriad of other dangers associated with jumping in the water. This 18 year old would have already been well informed enough to know that jumping overboard in the middle of the night is incredibly dangerous and risky regardless of the presence of sharks.

LinkPizza posted...

While sharks do attack people (but not a lot), they rarely eat people

Is this distinction significant enough for you to jump in the water with them?

So what did he win?

LinkPizza posted...

While sharks do attack people (but not a lot), they rarely eat people

Probably because people don't usually just appear in open water.

A_Good_Boy posted...

Is this distinction significant enough for you to jump in the water with them?

I cant swim, so I dont go into water But all Im saying is sharks rarely eat people Just letting you know is all