Man Survives 18 Hours Overboard

In 2022, during a Thanksgiving cruise to Mexico, a man named James Michael Grimes won a free drink in an air-guitar competition. That became his last memory before waking up overboard in the Gulf of Mexico with no ship in sight. He tread water for 18 hours, enduring stings from two swarms of jellyfish on his legs and arms before finally being rescued.

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