(NEXSTAR) – A guest on Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas is in stable condition after a hole appeared to open up in one of the ship’s waterslides on Thursday.
Footage of the broken waterslide has since been making the rounds on social media, showing water cascading to the ship’s deck through a hole near the top of the slide.
The injured guest, identified by Royal Caribbean as an adult, did not fall through the hole, according to a spokesperson for the cruise line.
“Our team provided medical care to an adult guest when acrylic glass broke off a water slide as the guest passed through the slide. The guest is being treated for his injuries,” the spokesperson said. “The water slide is closed for the remainder of the sailing pending an investigation.”
The waterslides on Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas are pictured on Feb. 3, 2024, in Miami. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Royal Caribbean did not disclose the nature of the guest’s injuries.
Some of the videos shared to social media appeared to show the moment that passengers realized the slide had broken. Some can be heard screaming for the operators to “stop the slide!” while other yell for anyone in the queue to turn back.
Other videos, from after the incident, showed different angles of a jagged hole in a clear acrylic section of the slide.
“Okay we will always cruise Royal but this… this is bad. Especially for the ICON of the seas!” one woman, who appeared to be a passenger on the cruise, wrote on TikTok. “Had just about convinced my husband to go on a slide with me too.”
The Icon of the Seas is currently en route to Coco Cay, in the Bahamas, according to CruiseMapper. The ship had left Florida on Saturday for a 7-day voyage to the Caribbean.
