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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

Cruise passenger who fell overboard tells how he survived 15 hours in the water and battled ‘sea creature’

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James Michael Grimes’ Thanksgiving was unorthodox.

After winning an air guitar contest, he toppled off the side of a cruise ship, battled a "sea creature," treaded water for more than half a day, and survived on bamboo — or maybe just some kind of stick — until the Coast Guard picked him up the next day.

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