The Royal Caribbean employee said he “thought I was gonna die,” according to one of the two fishermen who rescued him on Nov. 6
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- Fishermen rescued a Royal Caribbean employee they found treading water in the ocean off Catalina Island on Nov. 6
- Sean Norton and Grant Garrett pulled the man into their boat
- The man, who identified himself as a pianist who went overboard from the cruise ship he was working on, is believed to have spent about nine hours in the Pacific Ocean
Two men were returning from a fishing trip when they spotted something in the water. It turned out to be a pianist who had gone overboard from the cruise ship he was working on.
On Friday, Nov. 6, Sean Norton and Grant Garrett were heading home from a morning spent fishing for marlin near Catalina Island in Los Angeles County, Calif., when the boat’s captain saw a person floating in the Pacific Ocean, CBS Los Angeles reported. The man then identified himself as a Royal Caribbean cruise ship employee who had fallen overboard from the ship he was working on, according to the outlet…