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The  20-year-old passenger who jumped off a Royal Caribbean cruise  last week after an argument with his dad has been identified as a former high school football player and avid hunter living in Florida.

Levion Parker, of North Port, Florida, has been missing since he jumped overboard April 4 in front of his brother and father on the cruise to Cuba and the Bahamas’ Grand Inagua Island, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.

The release of his identity comes shortly after the  Coast Guard called off its search  for Parker. 

Social media posts show Parker often went on hunting and fishing trips. He also played football for North Port High School before he graduated in 2022, according to the Daily Mail .

Parker jumped off the 18-story Liberty of the Seas after reportedly getting into an argument with his father.

Parker’s father was “fussing at him for being drunk,”  fellow passenger Bryan Sims told The Post .

“When we got to them, he said to his dad, ‘I’ll fix this right now.’ And he jumped out the window in front of us all,” Sims said.

“He was pretty drunk,” Sims added.

Sims hung out with Parker and his brother, Seth, 18, in the hot tub in the early hours of April before going their separate ways around 4 a.m. 

After Sims had used the restroom and dried off, he headed toward the elevators.

On his way there, he noticed the two brothers and their dad, Francel Parker, coming out of the sliding doors near the elevators. 

“As we were walking from the hot tub back to the elevators, his dad and brother were walking towards us. His dad was fussing at him for being drunk, I guess,” Sims said of the moment before Parker jumped.  

Royal Caribbean said it “immediately” launched search boats to look for him with help from the US Coast Guard.

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Parker’s father owns an air conditioning company and the family was cruising on the boat as guests of Tropic Supply, a Florida-based air conditioning wholesale company.

Tropic Supply had invited dozens of contractors to mark the company’s 50th anniversary, according to Daily Mail.

The Post has reached out to the family for comment. 

Nearly 400 people have gone overboard on major cruise lines between 2000 and 2020,  according to the Washington Post . 

As many cases are often deadly, many cruise lines have installed surveillance cameras and employed additional safety measures to help reduce risk. 

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Woman, 36, Found Dead After Falling from Cruise Ship Off the Florida Coast

The 36-year-old woman was found 18 miles from the shore of Florida's Port Canaveral, the U.S. Coast Guard announced

The body of a 36-year-old woman who fell from a cruise ship was recovered on Thursday morning off the coast of Florida.

According to the U.S. Coast Guard , the woman's body was recovered about 18 miles from the shore of Port Canaveral after she went overboard from the cruise ship MSC Meraviglia.

The ship is owned and operated by MSC Cruises, per NBC News .

The Coast Guard did not disclose the woman's identity or how she fell from the ship. CBS News reported that the Coast Guard recovered the woman's body at around 7:30 a.m.

In a statement to PEOPLE, MSC Cruises said they are working with authorities to investigate the incident.

"Early this morning, MSC Meraviglia's advanced detection systems alerted our crew to a passenger overboard while the ship was sailing to Port Canaveral," the company said. "The crew performed an immediate search and rescue operation, alongside the US Coast Guard who supported search efforts with boats and a helicopter."

"Unfortunately, despite the rapid rescue operation, the passenger sustained fatal injuries," the statement continued. "We are offering our full support to authorities as they investigate this matter. We are deeply saddened by this incident and offer our sincerest condolences to the family and those affected."

At the time of the incident, the ship was returning from the Bahamas, WFTV reported.

Footage published by the news station appeared to show dozens of passengers peering over the ship's edge to look for the woman. The video seemed to have been filmed late at night or early morning.

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"Our deepest sympathies go out to the family during this extremely difficult time and we ask for discretion as we notify the family of this tragedy," a spokesperson for the U.S. Coast Guard Public Affairs Detachment in Jacksonville, Florida, told CBS News in a statement.

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In November, dad James Michael Grimes fell from a Carnival cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico. The 28-year-old survived by treading water for nearly 18 hours.

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Teen dies after falling from cruise ship headed from Florida, per report

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PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. – A teenage passenger aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship leaving Florida died after falling from a balcony, TMZ is reporting .

It happened on Saturday as the Allure of the Seas was traveling from Port Canaveral to Nassau, per the report.

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Details of what led to the 16-year-old’s death were not revealed.

According to TMZ, the boy was taken to a hospital as first responders attempted life-saving treatments, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Photos obtained by TMZ show a balcony with crime scene tape surrounding it, and below on the deck, a blue tent.

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16-year-old dies in fall aboard Royal Caribbean cruise ship that set sail from Florida: report

Allure of the seas departed port canaveral for the bahamas.

PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. – A 16-year-old died after falling from a balcony to the deck of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship that set sail from Port Canaveral, according to TMZ.com .

The teen fell Saturday aboard Allure of the Seas, which left the port on Friday and traveled to the Bahamas before returning to Florida on Monday.

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News 6 spoke with a passenger aboard the ship, who said the cruise line made an announcement urging passengers to donate blood.

TMZ reported that the boy died at a hospital.

“We are saddened to learn of the passing of a guest, and our hearts go out to the family. Out of respect for them, we won’t provide any further comment,” Royal Caribbean said in a statement.

TMZ posted photos of yellow caution tape across a balcony on the ship.

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27-year-old Florida woman found dead on cruise ship, police say

by JESSICA A. BOTELHO | The National Desk

A 27-year-old woman was found dead on a cruise ship in the Bahamas, according to authorities.

The Royal Bahamas Force from the Criminal Investigation Department said the woman was discovered unresponsive in her cabin onboard the ship Monday around 5:30 p.m.

A team of medical personnel from the ship assisted and performed CPR, but no vital signs of life were detected and she was declared deceased," police noted in a news release.

Police said officers at the scene "confiscated a quantity of suspected cocaine from the cabin" and arrested a 32-year-old man from Florida.

The identities of the woman and the suspect were not immediately known.

The release noted an autopsy will be conducted to determine the woman's cause of death.

The investigation is ongoing, said police.

Son's final 5 words before jumping to death off cruise ship in argument with dad

Reports emerged of the Florida 20-year-old's having an argument with his dad before he launched himself off the eleventh deck of the cruise-liner before his body was recovered days later

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A 20-year-old Florida sportsman fell to his death overboard the 11th deck of a Royal Caribbean cruise during a drunken spat with his dad.

Levion Parker, of North Port, Florida was identified by Police in Broward County after he was declared missing when the US Coast Guard could not recover his body in the Bahamas waters. Levion, a football player who graduated high school in 2022, and his brother encountered their dad Francel Parker, on the Liberty of the Seas ship as they got out of a hot tub at around 3.30am.

One fellow passenger, Bryan Sims said “His dad was fussing at him for being drunk, I guess. When we got to them, he said to his dad, 'I'll fix this right now.' And he jumped out the window in front of us all.” Bryan recounted the horrific event to the NY Post : ”'It was literally 8 to 10 feet in front of me. It was one of the sliding windows by the soft serve ice cream machine.

“The ship was moving pretty fast cause it was during the night, and we were traveling a long distance. We were screaming and his dad was calling everyone to stop the ship. I do know from what I've heard it takes about a mile to get the ship stopped and turned around.

“Lots of crew were up top and they started launching the smaller boats to search after we got turned around and back to the area I'm assuming.

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Bryan reflected on the evening up until that point, saying the brothers had been chatting in the hot tub just moments before Levion jumped off the deck. He added: “I had hung out with him and his brother in the hot tub until 3.30am.

“It was standing room only. He sat right beside me the whole time. We chatted about different things, and he told me that he worked on yachts and other types of boats in Florida. I would say around 3.30 to 3.45am him and his brother left the hot tub. I just assumed they were headed to bed. Everyone had left the hot tub by 4am and went their separate ways.

“I got out, went to the restroom, dried off, put my shirt on and was walking from the front of the ship to the back elevators to go down to my room. When I got near the back of the ship on the pool deck I noticed him his brother and dad coming out of the sliding doors there near the elevators. They were walking in my direction and his dad had his arm around him and they were talking."

Levion's father had invited dozens of employees on a trip for his air conditioning business to celebrate the company's 50th anniversary. The boat was 57 miles away from the coast of the Dominican Republic when the alarm was raised, with passenger Deborah Morrison saying the crew were “alerted immediately'” by the “yelling” which erupted, as the man's family appeared “beside themselves.”

The ship was stopped and the search began for Levion, but most of the 4,000 passengers were only told of the events the next morning. One passenger wrote on Reddit: “They announced it over the PA system while we were at breakfast at the entire room went silent. Then the rest of the cruise felt oddly casual.”

One passenger Amy Phelps Fouse said the early morning was “definitely somber”. She added: “So many people came out of their cabins to stare at the sea, hoping to be able to aid in finding the person.

Linda Meissner Nuffe wrote: “I was on the ship and when the coast guard arrived and we got under way I couldn't help think how they must be feeling they were leaving their son behind.” Linda believed she was staying in the cabin next door to Levion, and woke to find his room locked and a crew member standing guard outside.

She said: “I saw a person go in that cabin on day one. I thought it was a teen or he could have been 20. My daughter and I were telling him how I sometimes put my deco on other doors the last night to confuse people. He laughed.

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“He was quiet and polite, not someone who seemed like a raging alcoholic like the press seems to be saying. We never heard a noise out of that cabin, no partying, no arguing, no slamming doors. I looked over our balcony at theirs after I saw the lock, there was nothing but chairs there.”

Francel told Dailymail.com that the family is consulting lawyers and is planning to issue a statement. A Royal Caribbean spokesperson said: ''The ship's crew immediately launched a search and rescue effort alongside the US Coast Guard. Our Care Team is providing support and assistance to the guest's family during this difficult time. For the privacy of the guest and their family, we have no additional details to share.''

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Fire, death of crew members aboard two cruise ships that departed from Florida

The Carnival Freedom cruise ship caught fire over the weekend while passengers were aboard. As a result two cruises were canceled as the ship will require extensive repairs.

The ship, operated by Doral-based Carnival Cruise Line, set sail on Monday afternoon from Port Canaveral to its shipyard in Freeport where it is expected to be evaluated and fixed.

On Saturday afternoon, the Carnival Freedom caught fire on the port side of the exhaust funnel, a kind of chimney meant to release smoke and emissions. Black smoke and flames were visible in a video provided to NBC6, which first reported the incident .

The vessel was 20 miles off Eleuthera Island, Bahamas, and heading to Freeport following a canceled port stop at Princess Cay due to bad weather, the company said. It commenced its trip two days earlier on March 21, departing from Port Canaveral.

Passengers safe on Carnival Freedom

“No guests were hurt, and the ship remained fully operational,” said Matt Lupoli, a spokesman for Carnival Cruise Line. But he said two members of the carrier’s fire response team were treated for minor smoke inhalation.

Carnival’s onboard team put out the fire on Saturday, and on Sunday, it completed what it said was a thorough assessment of the ship during a visit to Freeport. That is when the crew realized that “the damage is more than we first thought and will require an immediate repair to stabilize the funnel,” said Lupoli. After the funnel was stabilized, the ship returned Monday morning to Port Canaveral and let guests off. It has a capacity for nearly 3,000 guests but the company did not specify how many were on the current trip.

Carnival subsequently canceled cruises on Carnival Freedom leaving Port Canaveral on March 25 and on March 29.

Carnival said it also continues to investigate multiple eyewitness reports of a lightning strike.

Carnival said that, “We sincerely regret the impact to our embarking guests,” and that it would provide all guests on canceled cruises a full refund and a 100% future cruise credit.

Meanwhile, that was not the only mishap in the Caribbean.

Two crew deaths

On Friday, the Nieuw Amsterdam operated by Holland America experienced what it says was an accidental steam release in an engineering space on board while at Half Moon Cay, The Bahamas. Two crew members died as a result. They have not yet been identified. There were no passenger injuries, the company said.

The Bahamas Maritime Authority and the Dutch Safety Board are conducting an investigation, the carrier said.

Holland also said that all systems on board the ship “have since been reviewed and determined to be fully operable by independent surveyors of the Dutch government and confirmed by the US Coast Guard.”

“All of us at Holland America Line are deeply saddened by this event,” the company statement said.

There are not precise figures on number of crew deaths per year because the industry does not typically disclose them. A research paper from 2020 in the International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health noted that 10 crew members died in 2019, a high at the time for one year.

Nieuw Amsterdam returned to Port Everglades on March 23. Then it quickly left on its next tour that same evening, the company said. Its next scheduled port stop is at Ocho Rios, Jamaica on March 26.

The ship, which has a capacity of around 2100 guests, is based at Port Everglades in the winter and in the summer between Vancouver and Whittier, Alaska.

The incidents come as the cruise industry is breaking records for number of passengers.

PortMiami, Florida’s largest port, served 7.3 million passengers during the 12-month fiscal year 2023. That was tops for cruise ports worldwide, nearly twice the four million passengers seen the prior year and more than its previous record of 6.8 million passengers set in 2019.

Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale and Port Canaveral are also booming. The latter was the world’s top cruise port one year before PortMiami took the honors.

It does not seem much is slowing it down.

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Weddings? Burials at sea? Unexpected things you can do on a cruise ship besides cruising

When thinking of a cruise , we generally imagine sailing away for a relaxing vacation of sun and fun. Lots of food, perhaps a drink with an umbrella in it and the magnificent ocean.

We're lucky in Florida, home to some of the world's busiest cruise ports including PortMiami, Port Canaveral , Port Everglades, Port Tampa Bay, JAXPORT, and Port of Palm Beach. There is also a port in Key West, but this is mainly used for cruise ship calls rather than a homeport.

Most people know cruises offer a great value and are nearly all-inclusive with good food , accommodations and entertainment. Add to that exotic ports of call and shore excursions that strike all fancies, from beach bums to adrenaline junkies.

But there are some lesser-known accommodations available on most cruise ships .

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You can get married on a cruise ship

Want to say "I do" onboard a majestic ship or at an exotic location?

You can do that on a cruise ship and be on your honeymoon at the same time.

Many cruise lines, including Disney Cruise Lines , Carnival and Royal Caribbean , offer weddings and wedding renewals aboard the ship or at scenic tropical locations.

Your guests don't even have to cruise with you.

For example, 50 non-sailing guests can take part in weddings aboard Carnival Cruise Line ships before the cruise sails from the port of embarkation.

Royal Caribbean allows for 75 of 150 wedding guests to be non-sailing. NCL permits up to 10 non-sailing guests free of charge, but a reception must be booked if you have up to 50 guests who are not sailing.

Check with your cruise line for availability and details.

Burial at sea: Scattering a loved one's ashes from a cruise ship

A loved one's remains can be buried at sea during a cruise.

Several cruise lines allow for the scattering of cremated remains from their ships, provided the guest can produce the decedent's death and cremation certificates.

The remains are generally required to be in a biodegradable urn and some cruise lines require the entire urn to be tossed into the sea.

Cruise lines work with guests to determine burial time and place. Guests are usually taken to a more secluded part of the ship and given privacy for scattering the remains.

Contact your cruise line before boarding for availability and policies.

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Holland America crewmember missing after going overboard before vessel docks at Port Everglades

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Updated on: April 13, 2024 / 4:52 PM EDT / CBS Miami

FORT LAUDERDALE  — A search is underway for a cruise ship crewmember who went overboard while the vessel was still at sea before docking in South Florida this weekend.

Around 11:18 a.m. Saturday, deputies with the Broward County Sheriff's Office Port Everglades District responded to a report of a missing crewmember on a Holland America cruise ship.

According to Holland America, the crew member was reported missing when the Rotterdam vessel docked in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday. After reviewing the security camera video, the crew member went "purposefully overboard" around 9:45 p.m. Friday while the vessel was still en route between Cuba and Key West, the cruise line told CBS News Miami.

BSO's Homicide and Crime Scene units have responded to Port Everglades to investigate, while the U.S. Coast has been notified and is currently searching the sea for the crew member.

"All of us at Holland America Line are deeply saddened by this incident and our thoughts and prayers are with the team member's family at this difficult time," the cruise line shared in a statement with CBS News Miami.

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The woman was a passenger on the Disney Fantasy. Coast Guard officials coordinated the medevac with the cruise ship and a Coast Guard Jayhawk aircrew was deployed onto the boat. The woman was placed in a rescue basket and was hoisted up into the helicopter. 

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"Our crew was able to quickly, safely, and efficiently execute a long-range MEDEVAC for the patient to receive the higher level of care she required," said Lt. Cmdr. Todd Stephens. "This case demonstrates the value of good crew resource management and the capabilities of our Jayhawk helicopter."

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She was airlifted to an airport in San Juan and local emergency medical services transported her to a local hospital. 

"We are glad everything came together to help this passenger," said Ensign Michael Riccio, the operations unit leader for the case in San Juan. "The competency displayed by the Disney Fantasy crew and the Coast Guard personnel and units involved made all the difference."

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Cruise passenger dies after shuttle bus crash

One woman has died and 10 others were injured after a shuttle bus crashed into the transportation area outside a Honolulu cruise terminal Friday, according to police.

The ship, Carnival Miracle, was on a 15-day journey, departing Long Beach, California, on April 6, according to Carnival Cruise Line. Nine of the people hit by the vehicle were cruise ship passengers.

"Sadly, one guest has died from her injuries. She was traveling with her husband, who was also injured and is expected to recover. Members of the Carnival Care Team are assisting the guests. Our thoughts are with the guests affected and their loved ones," Carnival Cruise Line said in a statement to ABC News.

A 57-year-old man was dropping off customers at pier 2 when a bystander told him that his vehicle was moving forward. He then jumped into the drivers seat, trying to stop the vehicle, but he accidentally pressed the gas pedal instead of the brakes, colliding with two concrete barriers and eleven pedestrians, according to the Honolulu Police Department.

Five pedestrians were transported to the hospital -- one of whom was later pronounced dead and four others are in good condition. Six other pedestrians refused treatment on the scene, police said.

According to police, speed does not appear to be a contributing factor in the collision and it is unknown if drugs or alcohol were contributing factors.

The investigation is ongoing.