NFL Player Documents Carnival Cruise Ship Rescue of 16 Cuban Immigrants in the Gulf of Mexico

In between posting pictures of himself soaking up the sun while on a Carnival cruise, NFL player James Harrison also took images of 16 Cuban immigrants being rescued in the Gulf of Mexico by ship workers. The Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker was aboard a “Legends of Pittsburgh”-themed trip, and it’s obvious from his Instagram account that his mind was blown.

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However, ABC 13 reports that these kind of rescues are neither rare nor common. Earlier this month, a Disney cruise ship was en route to the Cayman Islands when it came across 12 immigrants south of Cuba, according to the Independent. That same ship had picked up 8 immigrants who were stranded 45 miles away from Key West in 2013.

U.S. Coast Guard 7th District spokesman Jon-Paul Rios told CNN that cruise ships have agreed to pick up stranded immigrants and to hand them over to authorities at the next port of call.