Dad of the year, 2025

89th

To be fair I did tell my 2 year old "I hear there's free ice cream on the far side of the parking lot... let's freak out mom for a few minutes wink wink"

89th

Back to the original story, regardless of how she fell overboard, would any dad here NOT jump in after your 5 year old? And yes, I know how difficult it is to keep someone above water when you have to tread water (lifeguard training back in the day...)

jon-nyc

Reflexively. Today the smart thing for me would be to call the crew and keep an eye on my son the lifeguard but i still wonder if I would reflexively jump in or at least start to.

LuFins Dad

@Mik said in Dad of the year, 2025:

One does wonder how a five year old got over the railing.

When Karla and I were on a cruise 20 years ago, I leaned against the railing, and the entire section opened up. Turns out it was a gate that wasn’t secured. I was suspended over open ocean. I have no trust of cruises, and even less now after reading this.

jon-nyc

You’re just protecting Karla. She lifted you up onto the railing for a picture, admit it.

Mik

Cruises are fine. It's the railings you should not trust.

But come to think of it, had Karla been out there without you for a while beforehand?

LuFins Dad

We were newly married at that time. In fact Lucas was a glimmer in my rum addled eye that trip…

Mik

Buyer's remorse? Works that way for pianos sometimes.

Axtremus

Yeah, I was thinking a competent parent would have prevented the kid from falling from a cruise ship into the ocean in the first place.

89th

@Mik said in Dad of the year, 2025:

Cruises are fine. It's the railings you should not trust.

But come to think of it, had Karla been out there without you for a while beforehand?

Lol

jon-nyc

Saw this in a news report:

It is rare for people to fall off a cruise ship, but when they do, they often do not survive.

In 2019, the most recent year data is available, 25 people fell overboard and only nine of them were rescued, according to a Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) report.

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