Cruise passenger injured when water slide split while he was on it

A cruise passenger was injured after a water slide shattered while he was using it.

The man, no further details given, was going down the slide on Royal Caribbean’s cruise ship Icon of the Seas yesterday when a glass panel broke, leaving a huge hole in the slide.

He had been riding the 46ft (14m) high Frightening Bolt, a drop slide which sends upright riders feet-first into the slide after the base drops out from under them.

Passengers shouted and gasped as water started to pour from the hole, with someone captured on video saying ‘someone just fell out of the slide’.

Royal Caribbean have since confirmed that nobody fell out of the hole in the slide, and the man was treated after reaching the bottom.

The Icon of the Seas departed Miami on August 2 and is due to return to Miami on August 9.

A spokesperson for the cruise company said: ‘Our team provided medical care to an adult guest when acrylic glass broke off a water slide as the guest passed through the slide.

‘The guest is being treated for his injuries. The water slide is closed for the remainder of the sailing pending an investigation.’

The injured man’s condition has been described as ‘stable’, but more details about their injuries have not been made public.

Icon of the Seas is home to Category 6, which claims to be the largest water park on a cruise ship and features six slides.

As well as the Frightening Drop, the water park also includes the Pressure Drop – a mat-racing slide which lets two passengers race head-to-head – and two raft slides where groups can slide together in another race.

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