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Dad's Heroic Ocean Rescue | TMZ Live
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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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Well, this is an absolute miracle. How a nearly five-year-old child could fall off the fourth
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deck of a Disney cruise, this is the ship, the Disney Dream, and survive it. And this happened
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on Sunday. That ship was on its way back to Florida from the Bahamas when the little girl
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fell overboard. Her father, who was clearly very nearby when this happened, jumped in after her.
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He had to be nearby because the boat's moving, and he would not have gotten to her if there
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was a delay. Exactly. So I'm sure it jumped in right as she was falling. They both survived
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just that fall, which is amazing, and then had to wait for the boat to stop, turn around. They
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sent out the rescue tender, which brought them both back to the ship safely. I have to say that
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the fall. You mentioned four stories. The fall itself could cause severe injury. I mean,
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you know, hitting the water that high is sometimes like hitting cement. So it's kind of miraculous.
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Both of them are okay. It's still a little unclear exactly how she got up when it was on the railing
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or how she exactly fell in. But just the fact that she is completely fine, that the dad's
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completely fine. I mean, he treaded water, I think, for like 15, 20 minutes, Harvey, because
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like you said, the boat was moving still. So they had to like spot them. And, you know,
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they sent in the little rescue boats. So he was just out in the water, treading water with his
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daughter. So you got to wonder, I mean, since he clearly jumped immediately, she was in eyeshot
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of him. Right. And then you got to wonder, what was the situation where she's on the balcony? We
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don't know the answer to that. No, but I'm sure that's an investigation that they're running
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on the ship. And I'm sure if mom was nearby, she is also running an investigation. Well,
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and we don't know what happened. It may be mom and dad were watching. We're both there. And we don't
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know, or the kid just ran over us. We don't know what happened. But it is, I got to say, it is just
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a, it is literally a miracle. I always wonder what happens when you, because the few times I've
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been on a cruise ship, I always wonder what's going on in the water. Like when you jump in,
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it's not like you just jumped into bath water, right? You jump in and now this ship with these
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giant motors are going by, the water is turbulent. I have been in areas where I've jet skied and there
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are ocean liners like that. And they make massive wakes because you jump the wakes. And for the kid
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to fall there, it's just a miracle. I don't think you're supposed to jump those wakes.
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Why? With your jet ski. Why? Um, okay. Well, you go back far enough because some of it, it's
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okay, Mr. Bear Devil. Anywho.
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Anywho.
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Anywho.
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