He made it through the night and the next day, until night came again, and tried eating objects that floated by, including a piece of bamboo. Grimes described the next 20 hours as a fight for his life spent treading water while fending off jellyfish and at least one unidentified finned creature. The 28-year-old told ABC's "Good Morning America" he didn't remember falling, only waking up somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico with no boat in sight. In a separate incident that took place in November, James Michael Grimes survived after going overboard the Carnival Valor cruise ship the night before Thanksgiving Day. Cruise crew members launched a rescue boat and were able to save the woman about 45 minutes after she went over. On Sunday, a woman survived after going overboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship more than 30 miles off the coast of the Dominican Republic. If you fall from a cruise ship in the middle of the night and no one knows, there are a few things you can do to boost your chances of surviving and of being found, according to a survival expert. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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