What a wierd story!! I agree, why would someone intent on committing suicide take their shoes off?? Ditto if the guy was pushed off....if someone was trying to get rid of you that way, they'd hardly stop to have you remove your shoes, LOL. Maybe it was someone trying to evade police or security and was hoping to swim to shore? Strange....

There was a homicide case here in L.A. County a few years back wherein a woman fell to her death from a balcony at a Sheraton Hotel. The L.A. County Homicide detective team working the case were friends of mine. It took them over a year to solve the case...Part of what they did was drop dummies, over and over from that balcony, studying the physics of the fall...anyway, the perp eventually confessed that he'd pushed her...seems he was having an affair with her and she'd have wrecked his marriage. Don't know why I thought of that story, but I guess falling from a high deck on a cruise ship reminded me, LOL. Liz