All kidding aside, this is really sad. Too much time elapsed before anyone noticed him missing, and I fear he will never be rescued alive or recovered. If a security camera picked that up, wasn't it being monitored?
good question, what's the point of taking this long unless they released the 'edited version'.
Monarch Of The Seas
Ship Stats
| Launched: 2003 Passengers: 3,114 Registry: Bahamas |
Tonnage: 138,000 Crew: 1,185 Decks: 15 |
Security cameras are also usually about web cam resolution and frame rate, often black and white, in order to save on storage space and allow for a longer loop (like a black box). They are post event diagnostic tools, generally not advance warning devices.
Of course, now somone is going to sue and demand that they put labels on cruise ship railings saying "don't sit and hang out over empty space 15 stories up over the open ocean when you are plastered on smuggled illegal booze." Then they'll sue the mouthwash company to force them to put on a warning label "do not use to smuggle booze."
It would be very difficult to fall off of a ship, stone-sober. during the daylight hours and survive. Being dead-drunk and overboard in the pitch-black nighttime ocean has got to be horrific. If the fall didn't kill him, the shock of what happened - and his blood alcohol level - would have. How terribly sad.
Some may disagree, but I suspect it's not a very effective use of manpower to assign a dozen or so crew members to man every single camera at every single angle 24/7 just in case some drunk decides to go overboard sometime during a cruise. "All right, crew, monitor those cameras and for God's sake, don't blink!"