Here's a story from an Australian news site - 9news.com.au - about a Chinese woman who fell off a cruise ship and swam/floated for 38 hours until picked up by a fishing boat. Several things about this story don't ring true.
I've cruised on this cruise line - Royal Caribbean - several times. To fall off the ship, as she is supposed to have done, would require massive stupidity. The rail is above waist-height, to fall off she'd need to have climbed up on it - a no-no.
She is described as an athlete and competent swimmer, a coincidence? Unlikely. And why did no one notice her absence? Was she traveling alone? That's quite expensive with the single supplement add-on fare. Did her cabinmate push her over the side?
This sounds like an instantly regretted suicide attempt, or a drunken stunt gone wrong. Sober people behaving themselves do not fall off cruise ships, although an otherwise faultless person could be thrown over the rail by a couple of bad hats. My conclusion: there's more to this story than we're being told. Hat tip to Lucianne.com for the link.
