MIAMI — A scary incident was captured on camera Thursday onboard Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas cruise ship.
Acrylic glass broke on one of the water slides on the ship, sending water rushing down to those on board.
The slide is called “Frightening Bolt,” and it really lived up to its name when something went horribly wrong Thursday.
The chilling moments were caught on camera after a passenger was injured while taking a ride down the water slide when the glass panel cracked and water began gushing through the hole left in its wake.
Lillian Destefano, who witnessed the scary situation, said she was grateful, but surprised things were not worse.
“As I understand it, it was cracked,” she said. “Like the gentleman that went before him just (got) cut slightly, and then when the other gentleman went down, it sliced him, but he passed it, and then the glass fell and the water gushed. No one fell through, thank God.”
“I think I saw the gentleman who was injured from afar,” said a woman who spoke to Local 10’s Linnie Supall on Saturday. “I will not be going on slides like that again.”
A Royal Caribbean Group spokesperson told Local 10 News in a statement Friday, “Our team provided medical care to an adult guest when acrylic glass broke off a water slide as the guest passed through the slide. The guest is being treated for his injuries. The water slide is closed for the remainder of the sailing pending an investigation.”
The cruise travelled to Royal Caribbean’s Coco Cay island before returning to Port Miami on Saturday morning.
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