Overboard Carnival passenger was seconds from death, rescuer said
said the man was just seconds away from death — after floating alone for over 15 hours in the Gulf of Mexico.told WWL-TV“My best guess is that he had between a minute and 30 seconds left before we lost him completely.”
Dramatic video captured the rescuer plucking an exhausted James Grimes some 20 miles south of Louisiana’s Southwest Pass after the crew of a cargo ship spotted him treading water. “Once I handed that to him, he just collapsed into it. He didn’t have … he couldn’t talk to me. I was able to get his name and the cruise ship he had fallen off of,” Hoefle told the news outlet.Hoefle, seen wearing rescue gear, along with his fellow MH-60 Jayhawk crew members.“It’s hard to keep your mind in the right place, and then to throw that Hail Mary last couple of minutes of waving, swinging a sock around, anything to make himself more visible to us, that’s survival,” Hoefle said.
The family of the man who fell off the Carnival Valor was heard saying he had been warned about vaping on board.They talked about how “he kept getting in trouble for vaping in non-designated smoke areas, because there’s only one area where you can really go smoke,” she told the news outlet.
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