Pianist who fell from a cruise ship survived after ten hours in the Pacific Ocean

A pianist from the Royal Caribbean Ovation of the Seas cruise ship was rescued after falling overboard in the Pacific Ocean. This was announced on November 9 by the CBS television channel.

An employee of the liner fell overboard while working on the ship on November 6 off Catalina Island in California. The man found himself in the open ocean several dozen kilometers from the shore.

Fishermen came to the aid of the pianist, who was in the water for about ten hours. Upon noticing the man, Sean Norton and Grant Garrett stopped the boat, lifted the victim on board and called rescuers. According to Garrett, El Nino played a significant role in the fact that the man survived - because of this climatic phenomenon, the water in the ocean was abnormally warm, about 25 degrees.

After the evacuation, the pianist was hospitalized. The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating the details of the incident. The Royal Caribbean Group acknowledged the incident and said it was providing assistance to the victim.

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On November 2, the British edition of the Daily Mail reported on the rescue of five people who had been adrift in a small boat in the Pacific Ocean for three months. At the end of July, a group of nine people set off from the Micronesian island of Murilo to neighboring Ruo. The journey was supposed to take less than an hour, but due to the onset of the storm, the ship was swept into the open ocean. Three months later, the boat was spotted off the coast of Kiribati, 5.5 thousand km from the place of departure. As a result, five people were rescued, including two children.