2016 sees the launch of a few incredible cruise ships, including Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas in April – the third of its Oasis ships, the largest cruises ships in the world.
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Winkleman said the video “clearly shows that this had nothing to do with a domestic dispute but instead had everything to do with repeated anti-gay bullying being done by various Royal Caribbean staff and crew members”.
Mike Winkleman said Albaz and his husband Eric were married a year ago and there were multiple occasions when anti-gay remarks like “Hi, lipstick” were directed at the legally-married gay couple. A screen grab of the video showing the fall shows Bernardo Elbaz holding on before falling.”Hold on to him!”The video footage shows the man shouting, “Let go of me!” and “You don’t touch me!” shortly before losing balance and falling from the lifeboat into the ocean”.
The video was shot just minutes before Elbaz plunged overboard to his death.
In the video, you can hear Bernardo Elbaz’s distraught husband Erik screaming, “Oh my God!”
Another video previously released by the lawyers had shown Elbaz inside the room moments before he jumped. “He was so angry he threw a lamp, a chair”, Winkleman said.
In a press conference, he added: ‘Royal Caribbean says this was a domestic dispute and a suicide.
In video recorded on Bernardo Elbaz’s cell phone and released Wednesday afternoon by Winkleman, Erik Elbaz can be heard yelling, “He didn’t fall”.
Eric said that after the couple had dinner on Thursday, Elbaz went to the bar while he went back to their room. Winkleman told ABC News that when a ship employee approached Elbaz again after the argument, somehow he fell off the balcony and onto that lifeboat.
There was no fight between the two, the attorney said, explaining that Garcia Teixeira damaged the room because he was angry at the way he was treated, despite making complaints to managers.
The video shows the man dangling as other people on board attempt to pull him back on deck. The search for the body by the Coast Guard has now been called off.
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The cruise ship was about 17 miles from Turks and Caicos and headed to Florida at the time of the incident.
