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ASSOCIATED PRESS / FEB. 14, 2013
In this 2013 file photo, the cruise ship Carnival Triumph is towed into Mobile Bay near Dauphin Island, Ala.
MIAMI » Police have confirmed that 66-year-old Jose Sandoval Opazo was killed while working on an elevator on a Carnival Ecstasy cruise Sunday evening when the ship was on the final leg of its three-day voyage and was heading back to Miami. A cruise passenger captured the bloody elevator on video.
“The company extends its heartfelt sympathy to the family and loved ones of our team member. Our CareTeam is providing support,” Carnival said in a statement. “Appropriate authorities have been notified and a full investigation into the cause of the accident is underway.”
The video was recorded by Matt Davis, a Fort Myers, Fla., man, who was headed to dinner with his family. The video shows an elevator door with blood dripping down from it.
In the recording you can hear a voice saying, “No, that can’t be right. No. That’s not possible.”
“To look and see the elevator with just blood coming down like a sheet and not stopping. It was a real-life scene of ‘The Shining,’” Davis told WFTX-TV.
Davis said that he and his wife, Susan, could actually smell the blood and that it came down like rain. They said another man was also inside the elevator and ran out after struggling to open the doors.
Police and the cruise line have not confirmed what might have caused the incident.
The Ecstasy cruise ship sails from Miami and Charleston, S.C., to Bermuda, the Bahamas and the Caribbean.
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©2015 Miami Herald
Did he forget to lock out the power supply with a padlock for the on switch to prevent an accidental use of the elevator in the trajectory area?
There’s a variety of other ways an elevator can kill you even with the main power turned off.
Oh. Yes. I watched on TV’s Spike, a show on the 1001 ways to die.
I worked 40 years in the business…
This reminded me of a similar elevator accident at the old Biltmore Hotel in Waikiki years ago. Terrible.