After his daughter fell from the fourth deck of a 14-deck Disney Cruise ship on Sunday afternoon, a father jumped into the ocean to try to save her, according to witnesses.

Videos on social media showed passengers cheering as the two were safely recovered by a rescue boat. They were picked up after treading water for 10 minutes, according to witnesses.

The girl appeared to fall when her father took her picture against a railing, witnesses said. A man overboard alert was broadcast on the ship, and crew rushed to recover them.

"The ship was moving quickly, so quickly, it's crazy how quickly the people became tiny dots in the sea, and then you lost sight of them," passenger Laura Amador said.

"The captain slowed the ship and turned it around, and then they deployed a tender ship with people on it to go get them, and we saw them rescue the dad and daughter," she told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.

The 4,000-person capacity Disney Dream, was returning to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after sailing for four days around the Bahamas.

Disney confirmed in a statement that two passengers were rescued, but offered few details about what occurred.

"The Crew aboard the Disney Dream swiftly rescued two guests from the water," a Disney Cruise Line spokesperson said. "We commend our Crew Members for their exceptional skills and prompt actions, which ensured the safe return of both guests to the ship within minutes.

"We watched it, you could see two little things...it was crazy, it was horrific," passenger Gar Frantz told NBC News, describing how he witnessed the two enter the ocean and nearly disappear into the horizon.

The incident took place on the last day of the cruise, and the ship returned to port in Florida as normal.

While it is rare for passengers to fall from cruise ships, rescues are not often successful when they do.

According to a Cruise Lines International Association report from 2019, external, 25 people fell overboard that year from cruise ships and only nine were saved from the water.

Disney Dream departing Port Canaveral, Florida, in September 2016
History
Bahamas
Name	Disney Dream
Owner	The Walt Disney Company
Operator	Disney Cruise Line
Port of registry	Bahamas
Ordered	February 22, 2007
Builder	Meyer Werft
Cost	US$900 million
Yard number	S. 687
Laid down	August 19, 2009
Launched	October 30, 2010[1]
Sponsored by	Jennifer Hudson
Christened	January 19, 2011
Completed	December 8, 2010
Maiden voyage	January 26, 2011
In service	2011–present
Identification	IMO number: 9434254 MMSI number: 311042900 Callsign: C6YR6
Status	In service
General characteristics
Class & type	Dream-class (Disney) cruise liner[2]
Tonnage	129,690 GT[3]
Displacement	65,298 t (64,267 long tons; 71,979 short tons)[3]
Length	1,114.7 ft (339.8 m)[3]
Beam	121.4 ft (37.0 m)[4]
Height	217 ft (66 m)[3]
Draft	27.3 ft (8.32 m)[4]
Decks	18 (14 passenger)
Installed power	3 × 12-cylinder MAN diesels turning 14.4 MW (19,300 hp) generators 2 × 14-cylinder MAN diesels turning 16.8 MW (22,500 hp) generators[3]
Propulsion	2 × 23 MW (31,000 hp) Converteam motors turning 5-blade inward-turning fixed-pitch propellers[3]
Speed	Service: 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) Maximum: 24.7 knots (45.7 km/h; 28.4 mph)
Capacity	4,000 passengers (maximum)[5]

Some west coast ferry services face disruption at the height of the summer holidays as CalMac struggles with a shortage of ships.

The publicly-owned operator said one of its largest vessels MV Caledonian Isles - which has been out of action for 18 months - is still not ready to return to service.

Another major vessel, MV Lord of the Isles, needs work on its engines, while the chartered catamaran MV Alfred is due for annual maintenance.

CalMac is redeploying several ferries across the network in a bid to maintain services, but has warned that sailings to Arran, Islay, Mull, South Uist and Colonsay will be disrupted.

The reshuffle will, however, allow sailings from Ardrossan to Arran to resume next week when the 41-year-old ship MV Isle of Arran returns to the route.

The North Ayrshire town has been without a ferry service for six months, since the arrival of MV Glen Sannox which is too large to fit the Ardrossan facilities, and sails instead from Troon.

A CalMac spokesperson said having three major vessels out of service in July meant some disruption was unavoidable but it was taking steps to give communities as much capacity as possible.

The spokesperson said : "Both MV Alfred and MV Lord of the Isles require the works they'll be off service for, and we are doing the best we can to maintain service levels and meet capacity requirements on all islands with the vessels available to us during this period.

"We are grateful to local communities for their support as we've worked through a complex set of circumstances and apologise to those who will see services affected between 7 and 21 July."

It was initially reported the ship could spend up to three years in Leith before attempts were made to lease it to a European operator, but that did not work out.

Mr Carbone, from TT-Line said the work to develop the new terminal at Devonport was now well under way.

The vessel will travel to Hobart via Gibraltar, the Cape Verde Islands, Cape Town in South Africa and Port Louis in Mauritius.

It will dock in Fremantle in Western Australia for about four days while customs paperwork is processed before making the final trip to Hobart in late-August.

A spokesperson for Forth Ports said: "The Spirit of Tasmania departed Leith on Monday en-route for Australia.

"We wish her well on her journey."

Regarding the billionaires and multimillionaires who buy superyachts, Boat International says that most are from the US. Yet it points to more coming from Turkey, Indonesia and Mexico as those countries' economies grow.

Meanwhile, sales to Russian buyers have fallen to due to the sanctions against the country and its elites as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

If the appeal of a superyacht wasn't immediately obvious, Ms Trifirò says they enable her to see the world and fulfil her wanderlust. And she likes to be at the controls of the boat.

"My curiosity to explore new places pushes me to cruise the oceans while in the driver's seat," she says.

Ms Trifirò adds that her crew is paid double what they'd likely earn on land "as it is very important to keep them happy. Our captain has worked for us for 22 years.

The Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow was nationalised in 2019 after contracts for the two dual-fuel ships, Glen Sannox and Glen Rosa, ran into difficulties, and ferries procurement body CMAL rejected claims for extra costs.

The last commercial yard on the River Clyde, which employs about 300 workers and apprentices, is now run by a government-owned company Ferguson Marine Port Glasgow (FMPG).

Delays and design challenges continued under public ownership with the cost of the two ships now about £460m if written-off government loans and money paid out prior to nationalisation are included. The original contract price was £97m.

Glen Sannox was finally delivered to CMAL last November, nearly seven years late, and the second ship is due by the end of June 2026.

While many competing explanations for the problems have been put forward, there has been broad political consensus that the workforce themselves are not to blame.

One of the committee's recommendations is that workforce representatives be given a greater role in board meetings.

The MSPs noted that the yard remained hopeful of securing orders for three small CalMac ferries in the second phase of the small vessels replacement programme.

A report on their recent site visit also revealed that management had asked ministers to consider directly awarding a forthcoming contract for a replacement for MV Lord of the Isles, an 85m long ferry which was previously built by Ferguson's.