According to reports and a statement from Royal Caribbean the passenger did not fall through the hole, but was nevertheless ...

An acrylic waterslide on Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas broke open on Thursday, injuring one passenger and leaving a sizable hole in the bottom of the tubular slide.

Video of the slide after the accident shows water gushing out of a bend in the slide onto the deck below.

A person was injured on a Royal Caribbean cruise after a water slide malfunction on the ‘Icon of the Seas’ ship departing from Port Miami.

The slides are an increasingly popular attraction on many of the mega vessels operated by cruise lines.