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Dad of the year, 2025

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  • 89th8 Online
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    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...)

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    • jon-nycJ Online
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      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.

      "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
      -Cormac McCarthy

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      • MikM Mik

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

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        @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.

        The Brad

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

          "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
          -Cormac McCarthy

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            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?

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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            • LuFins DadL Offline
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              #11

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

              The Brad

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

                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                • AxtremusA Away
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                  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.

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                  • MikM 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?

                    89th8 Online
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                    @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

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                    • jon-nycJ Online
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                      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.

                      "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                      -Cormac McCarthy

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