Just How Hard is it to Fall Off a Cruise Ship?

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Just a few years ago I was working as the counselor on a cruise ship / floating University and we had someone fall overboard. A student was drunk, it was a dark moonless night around 2am, and we were around 1,000 miles out at sea crossing from Africa to S. America. If a crew member hadn't seen the student fall from where they were sitting on the rail they would never have been found. The crew member threw several life rinsg with a strobe lights in the water to mark the spot. The stupid student actually removed one of the strobes and left the life rings behind and started swimming after the ship with the strobe in hand. Luckily they were rescued and back on ship within 45 minutes. With a blood alc. level of .2+

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