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A dad did what any panicked parent would -- he dove straight into the Atlantic after his young daughter fell off a Disney cruise ship -- and the wild rescue played out in real time via passengers' phones.

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00:00Well, this is an absolute miracle. How a nearly five-year-old child could fall off the fourth

00:06deck of a Disney cruise, this is the ship, the Disney Dream, and survive it. And this happened

00:13on Sunday. That ship was on its way back to Florida from the Bahamas when the little girl

00:19fell overboard. Her father, who was clearly very nearby when this happened, jumped in after her.

00:27He had to be nearby because the boat's moving, and he would not have gotten to her if there

00:32was a delay. Exactly. So I'm sure it jumped in right as she was falling. They both survived

00:38just that fall, which is amazing, and then had to wait for the boat to stop, turn around. They

00:45sent out the rescue tender, which brought them both back to the ship safely. I have to say that

00:52the fall. You mentioned four stories. The fall itself could cause severe injury. I mean,

00:59you know, hitting the water that high is sometimes like hitting cement. So it's kind of miraculous.

01:05Both of them are okay. It's still a little unclear exactly how she got up when it was on the railing

01:12or how she exactly fell in. But just the fact that she is completely fine, that the dad's

01:18completely fine. I mean, he treaded water, I think, for like 15, 20 minutes, Harvey, because

01:22like you said, the boat was moving still. So they had to like spot them. And, you know,

01:28they sent in the little rescue boats. So he was just out in the water, treading water with his

01:32daughter. So you got to wonder, I mean, since he clearly jumped immediately, she was in eyeshot

01:38of him. Right. And then you got to wonder, what was the situation where she's on the balcony? We

01:45don't know the answer to that. No, but I'm sure that's an investigation that they're running

01:48on the ship. And I'm sure if mom was nearby, she is also running an investigation. Well,

01:55and we don't know what happened. It may be mom and dad were watching. We're both there. And we don't

02:00know, or the kid just ran over us. We don't know what happened. But it is, I got to say, it is just

02:06a, it is literally a miracle. I always wonder what happens when you, because the few times I've

02:12been on a cruise ship, I always wonder what's going on in the water. Like when you jump in,

02:16it's not like you just jumped into bath water, right? You jump in and now this ship with these

02:21giant motors are going by, the water is turbulent. I have been in areas where I've jet skied and there

02:29are ocean liners like that. And they make massive wakes because you jump the wakes. And for the kid

02:36to fall there, it's just a miracle. I don't think you're supposed to jump those wakes.

02:41Why? With your jet ski. Why? Um, okay. Well, you go back far enough because some of it, it's

02:47okay, Mr. Bear Devil. Anywho.

02:49Anywho.

02:53Anywho.

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