A passenger who fell off a cruise ship and miraculously survived nearly 20 hours treading water says he fought off what he feared was a shark and ate floating bamboo as he clung to hope that he would be rescued.
James Grimes from Alabama said that he went into survival mode after he plunged from the Carnival Valor ship and into the shark-infested waters of the Gulf of Mexico the night of November 23.
He told ABC News: “My worst fear is drowning, and that’s something I didn’t want to face,” he said, adding that he knew he just had to “swim and survive.” “I was swimming in one direction, and I looked around, and I seen it out of the corner of my eye,” Grimes said. “It came up on me really quick, and I went under.
“It wasn’t a shark, I don’t believe. It had more like a flat mouth and came up and bumped one of my legs, and I kicked it with the other leg. It scared me, not knowing what it was. All I could see was a fin.”He said: “So I started eating on it and it actually, I won’t say it tasted good, but it gave some type of flavor in my mouth other than salt water.
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