Heartbreaking video shows 20-year-old Levion Parker happily swimming in the ocean and fishing with his pals just a week before he drunkenly jumped off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship and was never seen again.
The TikTok video was posted by Parker’s friend, Kaleb Felty, on March 27 and shows Parker beaming on a boat off Florida and splashing around in the shallows.
At one point, a shirtless Parker holds up a fish he’d just caught. Another clip shows him fighting with a fish on his line as it darts under the boat before it cuts to Parker taking a dip in the sea.
Felty posted several other videos of Parker, including one of him hunting with a bow and arrow. In another video he dubbed a “typical Levion moment,” Parker feeds pelicans a fish out of his hands from a boat.
5 Parker caught a fish in a video a week before he jumped. TMX / Storyful
5 Parker swam in the ocean in the clip, posted by a close friend. TMX / Storyful
Parker’s pal also posted a slideshow of several photos of the two together, writing “I will see you again one way or another.”
Parker, of North Port, Florida, jumped off the 11th deck of the Liberty of the Seas around 4 a.m. on April 4, plummeting 200 feet into the Atlantic in front of his helpless brother and father while heading to Cuba and the Bahamas’ Grand Inagua Island, Florida officials said.
He had been drinking and had just gotten into an argument with his father, witnesses said.
5 Levion Parker (far left) pictured with family. Parker jumped off a Royal cruise ship earlier this month after an argument with his father. Facebook/Rose Parker
“There was a lot of yelling, and the crew was alerted immediately,” cruise passenger Deborah Morrison told The Post.
“His family was horrified. Just beside themselves,” she added.
Royal Caribbean said it “immediately” launched search boats to look for the 20-year-old and alerted the Coast Guard, which later took over the search.
The boy’s stunned father, Francel Parker, told The Daily Sun he threw six life rings off the ship in hopes of saving his son before the massive vessel was able to come to a stop about 20 minutes later.
Five days later, The Coast Guard called off its search.
Francel Parker is demanding to know how his underage son was given alcohol on the four-day cruise.
5 Parker was an avid fisherman and hunter. TMX / Storyful
5 He jumped off a Royal Cruise ship around 4 a.m. on April 4. TMX / Storyful
However Royal Caribbean sources told The Daily Mail he could have purchased the booze offboard, where the drinking age is 18.
“We have a strict policy on underage drinking. We did not serve this guest on board,” the source told the outlet. “The ship was docked in the Dominican Republic that day, so we cannot speak to what guest did when he was off the ship.”
Video shows Levion Parker swimming, fishing with friends week before jumping off cruise ship
