Child who fell by ship posed for a photo in a rack, says witness

Passenger said that “there was a kind of commotion” right after the fall. “So I heard this horrible cry of what I assume I was a mother and a huge blow to the water. The sound was something hitting the asphalt, nothing as if you jump on a pool, it was so loud,” Chandler recalled, identified by People magazine to his request only with his first name. She recorded the rescue on Tiktok:

After about 15 seconds, a life jacket was thrown into the water. Then a speaker alert announced “Mob” (“Man overboard” or person in the water) and three other floating devices were released, according to the passenger.

The ship’s crew acted rapidly, according to passenger reports on the American networks and press. The child and father were saved by a boat mobilized by the team.

The ship was moving fast, so quickly that it is crazy how fast people became small dots in the sea and we lost sight of them. The captain braked the ship and made him come back, and then sent a boat with people to pick them up, we saw them rescuing their father and daughter. Passenger Laura Amador, to the American network CBS

Ship had plexiglass protections (Plastic Polymethylmethacrylate barrier) around the decks. Veda Coleman-Wright, a spokesman for the Broward County Sheriff Department, told the newspaper) ‘The Washington Post “that detectives are investigating the case, although” there seems to be nothing suspicious “in the reported facts. She also confirmed the relationship between father and daughter, besides the girl’s age.