Father jumps overboard after daughter falls off Disney cruise ship

A Dis­ney cruise to the Bahamas end­ed with a ter­ri­fy­ing twist over the week­end after a young girl fell over­board and her father leapt in to save her.

The inci­dent occurred aboard the Dis­ney Dream off the port of Fort Laud­erdale on Sun­day, where the ship was return­ing from a four-night cruise to the Bahamas.

Dra­mat­ic footage shows the res­cue crew from the Dis­ney Dream using a small yel­low boat to pull the pair from the water.

Pas­sen­gers aboard the cruise lat­er con­firmed that a man over­board emer­gency code went out over the ship’s inter­com and that the crew imme­di­ate­ly went into res­cue mode.

Videos of the res­cue have gar­nered hun­dreds of views on social media. Anoth­er pas­sen­ger wrote in a Dis­ney Dream Cruise Ship group on Face­book that the girl fell “from the fourth deck and her dad went in after her — Thank­ful­ly the DCL res­cue team was on it imme­di­ate­ly and both were saved!”

A spokesper­son for Dis­ney Cruise Line told ABC News in a state­ment, “The Crew aboard the Dis­ney Dream swift­ly res­cued two guests from the water. We com­mend our Crew Mem­bers for their excep­tion­al skills and prompt actions, which ensured the safe return of both guests to the ship with­in min­utes. We are com­mit­ted to the safe­ty and well-being of our guests, and this inci­dent high­lights the effec­tive­ness of our safe­ty pro­to­cols

Dis­ney is the par­ent com­pa­ny of ABC News and this ABC sta­tion.