Florida man believes son is alive after jumping off cruise ship: report
Francel Parker, the father of 20-year-old Levion Parker, believes his "master diver" son survived after leaping from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship almost 60 miles from shore.
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Francel Parker, the father of 20-year-old Levion Parker, believes his "master diver" son survived after leaping from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship almost 60 miles from shore.
The father of the 20-year-old passenger who jumped off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship last Thursday in a reportedly drunken, impulsive leap believes his son is still alive nearly a week later.
Getty ImagesA man who jumped to his death from a Royal Caribbean cruise last week was identified by media outlets Wednesday as Levion Parker, a 20-year-old Floridian who regularly posted about hunting and fishing.Parker’s body was never found after his fatal leap on Thursday, which sparked a massive U.S. Coast Guard search between Cuba and the Bahamas’ Inagua islands in the eastern Caribbean.The Broward County Sheriff’s Office identified Parker on Wednesday, the New York Post and Daily Mail repo
Francel Parker insists his son Levion, 20, survived because he's a master diver who works on a commercial fishing boat.
Officials said the ship was 57 miles from Great Inagua when the man jumped over the side of the ship, according to United Press International.