![]() But it had more like a flat mouth, and it came up and bumped one of my legs, and I kicked it with the other leg. He also battled confusion, fatigue, and some sort of creature below. “It was like a 20-hour baptism,” he added. I was determined to swim until my arms and legs could not hold my body up anymore.” “I wasn’t going to give up at any point in time just say, this is it, this is the end. “I was trying to stay as positive as I could from the moment I came to, and regain consciousness, I can just remember right then thinking, ‘wow, it’s a miracle that I’m not already dead,’ ” Grimes said. He’d had drinks on the Valor, but says he was not inebriated, Grimes told ABC earlier. ![]() The last thing he remembers before regaining consciousness in the water was going to listen to live music aboard the ship with family, he said, and he doesn’t remember where, or how, he fell off the ship. It was the night before Thanksgiving when Grimes, who was at an onboard bar with his sister, went to use a restroom around 11 p.m., his sister recalled, according to a Carnival statement to CNN. The Alabama native was onboard the Carnival Valor with 18 members of his family for the week of the Thanksgiving holiday. Grimes, 28, who described himself as an “average guy” who likes hunting, fishing and being outdoors, was rescued late on Thanksgiving Day and told CNN he is “blessed to be here.” When James Michael Grimes fell overboard from a Carnival cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico, he said the sheer will to live, along with strength from God, kept him alive as he miraculously swam for what he believes was more than 15 hours.
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