A 5-year-old girl fell through a porthole on the Disney Dream into the ocean in June.
With all the safety features on a cruise ship, why did her fall fail to trigger the ship’s overboard detection system?
The alarm was set off when her father jumped in after her.
See timeline of what happened.
In news that captured our attention in June, a 5-year-old girl fell through a porthole into the ocean.
Her father jumped in after her after being alerted by the mother’s scream. Disney Cruise Line staffers rescued both father and daughter minutes later.
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But why didn’t the cruise ship’s overboard detection system go off when the girl fell? The system did go off when her father made the 49-foot jump into the ocean.
Here’s what we know.
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