Video shot by a passenger on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship shows the exact moment an acrylic glass panel broke on a water slide while a guest was inside the attraction.
The incident happened on Aug. 7 aboard the Icon of the Seas, which had departed Miami for stops in the Bahamas and Mexico. The ship returned to the Port of Miami on Saturday, Aug. 9.
In the video, posted to Instagram by user Pendopopolis, a man can be seen heading down the slide when the glass shatters, sending shards to the deck as water gushes out of the gaping hole.
In a statement, Royal Caribbean confirmed that an adult guest was injured when the acrylic glass broke off in the slide while the person was inside.
“Our team provided medical care to an adult guest when acrylic glass broke off a water slide as the guest passed through the slide,” a spokesperson said.
It does not appear that anyone below the slide was hurt by the falling glass. The water slide remained closed for the rest of the sailing.
Deadly altercation involving crew members aboard Icon of the Seas
Just two weeks before the water slide incident, Icon of the Seas was the site of a deadly altercation involving two crew members, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force.
On July 24, a 35-year-old South African crew member allegedly stabbed a 28-year-old South African woman multiple times aboard the ship while it was off the coast of San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. The man then fled and jumped overboard. He was later found dead by onboard medical staff.
The woman suffered stab wounds to her upper body and was reported to be in stable condition, police said.
A Royal Caribbean spokesperson described the incident as “a personal dispute” and said the woman was treated by the ship’s medical team. The cruise line did not released the names of those involved. An autopsy was pending to determine the man’s exact cause of death.
