Cruise Ship Pianist Rescued After Treading Water for About Nine Hours off California Coast

I thought, “Yep, it’s a human. Stop the boat, we’re going to pull in all the lines,” fisherman Grant Garrett told CBS News.

Garrett and his colleague Sean Norton were spearfishing near Catalina Island, about 20 miles off the California coast.

The rescued 37-year-old man said he worked on Royal Caribbean’s Ovation of the Seas and had fallen overboard.

All he said to me was, “Thank you, I thought I was going to die,” Norton told CBS.

Emergency services believe the pianist fell into the ocean on Friday night and struggled for about nine hours before being rescued.