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Re: woman overboard Posted on: Thu, 29 May 2008 23:35:53 -0500

[Default] Thus spake J Carnaghie :

>Surfer E2468 wrote:
>> Have been on 45 cruises,and still cannot see how someone can fall
>> overboard accidently,imho they are either on drugs,or drunk,or trying to
>> show off, Or in a case of terminal illness they decide to end their
>> suffering.
>> <
>> cruise lover>
>>
>I can think of a lot easier ways to "end
>suffering" than jumping off a cruise ship far from
>shore.
> Cheers,
> John in LALALand (On the Left Coast)

Remember Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? (I think most of us are
old enough to have seen it as a first run)

"I can't swim"
"Don't worry kid, the fall will probably kill you"

If you jump from deck 10, that's a fall of about 100-120 feet into
something with the same approximate compressibility as concrete. If
she didn't die from impact, she was probably unconcious and drowned.