Video shows water pouring out of cruise ship slide after glass shatters, injuring passenger

A passenger has been injured on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship after acrylic glass shattered on a water slide on Thursday.

The passenger, an adult, was on board the Icon of the Seas, according to ABC News , CBS News and People Magazine . It departed from Miami on Aug. 2.

A video posted on X on the evening of Aug. 7 shows water rushing out of the red and yellow slide where a glass panel appeared to be missing. People in the background were shouting as water gushed out of the slide down onto the deck.

“Did the person fall out?” an off-camera voice can be heard asking repeatedly.

“Yes, they did,” someone else replies.

Icon of the Seas. Water slide breaks #iconoftheseas pic.twitter.com/AfCDSbjQlg

— Jim Muldoon (@jimmuldoon) August 7, 2025

“Oh my God, someone just fell out of the slide,” a person can be heard saying, moments later.

People can be heard yelling: “Stop the slide!”

The adult guest is reportedly in stable condition, but the extent of the injuries are not known.

“Our team provided medical care to an adult guest when acrylic glass broke off a water slide as the guest passed through the slide,” a Royal Caribbean Group spokesperson said in a statement to ABC News. “The guest is being treated for his injuries.”

The injured person has not been identified.

Officials said the slide was closed “for the remainder of the sailing pending an investigation,” People Magazine reported.

The massive ship was called the largest cruise ship in the world by The Guardian when it set sail last year. It can accommodate 7,000 guests and crew, per the publication. It is 365 metres in length. For comparison, the CN Tower stands at 553 metres tall. The ship has seven different pools, 20 decks above sea level, a rock-climbing wall, a waterpark, an ice skating rink, and 20 dining options.

The waterpark has a total of six slides. According to Cruise Hive , the slide that broke was called the Frightening Bolt, which is 46 feet high. In unconfirmed reports, other passengers said that a person suffered from “skin laceration injuries from his legs to his hands,” per Cruise Hive.

The Icon of the Seas is scheduled to return to Miami on Saturday.

Last month, a passenger fell over the glass railing of an infinity pool on the same ship. The man was not injured.

Royal Caribbean did not immediately respond to National Post’s request for comment.

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