A cruise ship passenger was left injured after a water slide panel shattered while he was going down it.
An unnamed man had been using the slide on Royal Caribbean’s cruise ship Icon of the Seas yesterday when an acrylic glass panel broke.
A large hole was left in the side of the slide as footage captured water gushing from the edges and falling onto the deck below.
The man had been riding the 46ft high Frightening Bolt at the time – a drop slide which sends upright riders feet-first into the slide after the base drops out from under them.
His condition has been described as ‘stable’, but more details about their injuries have not been made public.
Passengers on board the cruise were heard in a clip of the incident shouting and gasping, with one yelling: ‘Someone just fell out of the slide’.
But Royal Caribbean have since confirmed that nobody fell out of the hole in the slide, and the man who was left injured, was treated after reaching the bottom.
The company told Cruise News Today: ‘Our team provided medical care to an adult guest when acrylic glass broke off a water slide as the guest passed through the slide.
An unnamed man had been going down the slide on Royal Caribbean’s cruise ship Icon of the Seas yesterday when an acrylic glass panel broke
The man had been riding the 46ft high Frightening Bolt, a drop slide which sends upright riders feet-first into the slide after the base drops out from under them
A large hole was left in the side of the slide as footage captured water gushing from the edges and falling onto the deck below
‘The guest is being treated for his injuries.
‘The water slide is closed for the remainder of the sailing pending an investigation.’
A guest on board the cruise told Cruise Radio that there were no injuries on the ground when the panel shattered, saying: ‘From what I saw the area below was empty!’
The cruise completely shut deck 15 on board the ship following the incident.
The Icon of the Seas, a 215ft wide and 198ft long ship, departed Miami on August 2 and is due to return to Miami on August 9.
It is home to Category 6, which claims to be the largest water park on a cruise ship and features six slides.
As well as the Frightening Drop, the water park also includes the Pressure Drop – a mat-racing slide which lets two passengers race head-to-head – and two raft slides where groups can slide together in another race.
Icon of the Seas is 66m (215ft) wide and 365m (1,198ft) long – and weighs 250,800 gross tonnes
The latest incident comes after a British holidaymaker almost lost her foot after it was ‘sliced wide open’ in a horror accident at a water park in Spain in 2023.
Mum-of-four Stephanie Somerville said she was left in agony and covered in blood after she was catapulted into a wall by a ‘dangerous’ water slide at Rio Safari Elche water park in Alicante.
She hit out at staff who told her they believed she had ripped her foot open on a loose nail but they could not find the object and carried on ‘as if nothing had happened’.
‘My foot was torn open to the bone in one clean slice,’ she told Daily Mail at the time.
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