Water falls

Ship passengers with children must be very careful when boarding from the dock. The risk of falling into the water from the gangplank is always present, as it happened to a four-year-old girl on Grand Bahama Island.

A passenger aboard the nearby cruise ship Carnival Conquest heard screaming on the dock and took a video of the accident on the Carnival Sunrise last week. 

In a TikTok video shared by user Chelspiers, several Sunrise crew members and onlookers were seen lining the edge of the dock, just feet from the cruise ship, looking down, Fox News reports.

A life ring was tossed into the water, and a ladder was lowered at the edge of the dock. Moments later, rescuers pulled the girl from the water up to the dock, followed by her mother, according to Fox News. 

“A four-year-old girl briefly walked away from her mother and fell into the water,” a spokesperson for the company told Fox News. “Her mother immediately jumped in after her. Our ship and security team quickly brought them both to safety and our medical team evaluated them.” 

Meanwhile, a woman who fell into a private swimming pool in Nevada, USA was rescued on 15 December. 

A surveillance camera at the home of Cletis Reed in Laughlin recorded him and a neighbor pulling the woman to the side of the pool. 

How she ended up in the water that night was shown on the home camera footage. 

The woman was driving and her car slammed into the concrete wall of Reed’s yard, flying from the impact, the video showed, Fox News reports.

The car rotated mid-air and landed on the roof of the backyard pool house, with the driver falling out of the open window and into the pool. 

“I figured something happened in the street, and I came out to see my entire backyard destroyed,” Reed told Fox News. “Everything was just blown up. The patio was on the ground, the lady was floating in my pool.”

The driver was taken to a hospital in Arizona and a tow truck used a crane to remove her car from Reed’s backyard. 

Reed is now facing a $300,000 repair cost, including draining the swimming pool that was contaminated with motor oil that leaked from the car.