man went missing from a Carnival cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico and found alive

Amazing story. He could have been in the water 15 hours.

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In the first hours after the Carnival Valor set sail from New Orleans on Thanksgiving eve, a brother and sister set off for a place apropos of a holiday mood: They headed to an onboard bar.
Predictably, the man at one point stepped away to use the restroom.
But he didn't come back.
Hours passed.
He wasn't in his stateroom.
The 28-year-old had, quite simply, vanished...