"Shortly after Captain Volpi announced we were in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and had passed the

In a statement provided to Cruise Critic, Carnival said witnesses saw a 28-year-old man jumping off the ship as it steamed for Hawaii on the fourth day of a 15-night cruise. Search-and-rescue operations were initiated canadian airline tickets cheap and the passenger was located canadian airline tickets cheap and brought back on board, where he received treatment at Spirit's medical canadian airline tickets cheap center.
"Shortly after Captain Volpi announced we were in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and had passed the point of no return, the man jumped overboard," wrote member cruisingcouple2008 on his Facebook page. "We immediately heard the BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO PORTSIDE alert and the ship came to a quick slowdown from 23 knots to about 4 knots. We turned around and the lifeboats were lowered. Within moments, the man was located and the quick work of the staff of the Spirit rescued the man alive."
The majority of man overboard scenarios don't end in a rescue — but it does happen. In February, fast-acting crew members rescued a crew member  who jumped off of Carnival canadian airline tickets cheap Magic. Last October,  a man who jumped overboard from P O's Ventura  was pulled out of the water alive. More strangely, a Carnival Inspiration passenger who went overboard in June 2009 was rescued when he was found  hugging a pilot marker  in a shipping channel near Tampa. The man told authorities that he climbed up on a railing to get a better view of the pilot boat when he slipped and fell overboard.