If something doesn't sound like a good idea then there's a strong likelihood that it's not, yet one cruise ship passenger didn't take that advice when he decided to jump off the side of the 100-foot vessel.
One thing that any swimmer quickly learns about water is that its properties evolve depending on velocity and size, making certain types of diving not advisable beyond a specific distance.
For example, water reacts very differently when you perform a proper dive compared to a cannonball, and the pain of impact will be felt at a far greater intensity with the latter due to the amount of resistance that a larger area creates.
There will reach a certain distance and speed at which it becomes inadvisable to enter water no matter what form you take, and one traveler learnt that the hard way when he decided to plunge himself into the ocean from the deck of a 100-foot tall cruise ship.
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People do all sorts of silly things in the age of social media, and Nick Naydev thought that launching himself from the Symphony of the Seas' 11th deck would help him achieve virality.
In his 'defense', the decision was made after a night of heavy drinking, but that didn't stop his body from feeling the impact, leaving him lucky to be alive and the subject of a potential lawsuit from Royal Caribbean for 'stupid and reckless behavior'.
Speaking in an interview with Good Morning America, Naydev revealed how his body reacted to the fall despite there being a roughly 90 percent chance of death when dropping from that height:
"Six or seven hours after I was in quite a bit of pain and it took about three days for that pain to go away," he revealed. "I realize how dangerous this is, the height is pretty high and at that height, the water is almost like cement. I would never do this again."
Luckily he avoided any serious injuries despite the impact hitting both his neck and tailbone 'pretty hard', but there's a good chance he wouldn't be anywhere near as lucky if he did the exact same thing a second time around.
He also revealed to Inside Edition that "nothing was really going through my mind" before the jump, noting that he simply thought "'I gotta do this,' and just two seconds later, I just jumped and didn't really think it through."
Naydev has since clarified that he hopes his reckless actions "don't inspire anybody to do this because it is very dangerous," adding further assurance that he doesn't "think this is a joke."