Jose Sandoval Opazo, 66, an electrician working on an elevator aboard the Carnival Ecstasy was killed in an unexplained but grisly manner Sunday night.
Passenger Matt Davis filmed the moment when a sheet of blood began pouring down the outside door of the elevator. Davis and his wife were on their way to dinner when they came across the horrific scene.
“To look and see the elevator with just blood coming down like a sheet, and not stopping … it was a real life scene of ‘The Shining'” Davis told WFTX, referring to the 1980 horror movie.
The Davis family, from Ft. Myers, Florida, boarded the cruise ship on Christmas Day for a spur-of-the-moment cruise, and everything went well until the very last night. When they came upon the scene, time stood still, and the smell of blood assaulted their nostrils.
“One of the crew people from Carnival was trying to get people to go back to the restaurant,” Matt Davis said. In the video, you can hear a woman shouting “Come inside please!” Davis told WFTX there was a man inside the elevator, and when the door opened, he had to run through the dripping blood to get out.
About an hour later, says the Daily Mail, Davis and his wife noticed the scene of the accident had been sectioned off, and a sign had been placed next to the elevator reading, “Sorry, but I’m not working at the moment.”
“A crew member or somebody was inside or behind that wall when the elevator came down, and I don’t know what happened, but something terrifying happened,” Matt Davis said.
Carnival spokesman, Vance Gulliksen, told CNN on Wednesday that a crew member died Sunday on the ship while working on an elevator. “The company extends its heartfelt sympathy to the family and loved ones of our team member,” Gulliksen said, adding that Carnival was providing support.
