Incredible.I'm sure he realises how unbelievably lucky he was to be spotted. If not, some one should explain it to him.

The Disney Cruise Line Blog has a short report on the rescue, http://goo.gl/rx0qJz (with quotes from and links to an article from the Mexican newspaper Milenio).

The rescue took place about 13km from the port of Cozumel, https://goo.gl/maps/7LRjH

Well, that's ONE way to change from a crappy cruise to a presumably better one.

I just want to see the video of the guy being swept off. I understand the Oasis of the Seas to be a pretty big boat. How big was the wave that got him?

I was on the Allure of the Sea a few months ago. It is a pretty damn big boat.

http://www.royalcaribbean.com/findacruise/ships/class/ship/home.do?shipCode=OA

I don't think it was a wave that got him, but rather the wave that probably caused him to lose his balance. There are plenty of places to get near the ocean on that boat, but very few that would put you in any danger of getting directly hit by a wave, much less falling off accidentally. I think there was some effort on his part to make this happen, like leaning way over a railing to see something, or possibly being somewhere that he wasn't supposed to.

If it wasn't for the freaky Japanese Pooh Bear lifeboat, I'd have excepted that to be an English Channel rescue.

The weather on this is a long way from what we get advertised as cruises.

Falling overboard is rare (23 incidents in 2013), but apparently Carnival is not the company to go with if you're worried about it (Carnival owns Royal Caribbean), they have 21 percent of the traffic worldwide, but half of the overboard incidents in the past ten years have come from Carnival ships.

It's really rare to be rescued in an overboard from a cruise ship. Successful rescues only happen every few years.

Yes... I guess I do have too much time on my hands. Thanks for bringing that up.

http://www.ibtimes.com/how-many-cruise-ship-passengers-go-overboard-each-year-1250127