Royal Caribbean cruises denies serving alcohol to Levion Parker before he jumped to his death from 11th story after fight with his dad

Royal Caribbean has insisted that it did not serve alcohol to the 20-year-old Florida passenger who jumped overboard from the 11th deck of a liner after a drunken argument with his dad.

Levion Parker, 20, has not been seen since he threw himself from the Liberty of the Seas at 3.30am on April 4 as it returned to Fort Lauderdale at the end of a four-day cruise.

Witnesses said he was 'pretty drunk' at the time, and his father Francel has demanded to know where he got the alcohol, but the cruise company has said it was not from them.

'We have a strict policy on underage drinking. We did not serve this guest on board,' a source told Dailymail.com

'The ship was docked in the Dominican Republic that day, so we cannot speak to what guest did when he was off the ship.'

Levion Parker, 20, was a high school footballer and popular sportsman from North Port, Florida

Dad Francel, pictured left, with wife Rosemary, and sons Levion and Seth, runs an air conditioning company and was on board as a guest of wholesaler Tropic Supply 

The ship was ordered to stop after Levion jumped nearly 200 feet from the 11th deck of the 15-deck ship while it was 57 miles off Grand Inagua at 4am on April 4 

The Deck 11 'Whirlpool' hot tub was still packed with revelers in the early hours of April 4   

Little over 100 yards away are the sliding windows of the Splashaway that Levion jumped through before falling nearly 200 feet into the sea   

Francel who runs an air conditioning company in Port North confronted Levion and brother Seth, 18, as they emerged from a hot tub packed with revelers.

'His dad was fussing at him for being drunk, I guess,' fellow passenger Bryan Sims said.

'When we got to them, he said to his dad, 'I'll fix this right now.' And he jumped out the window in front of us all.'

The US Coast Guard called off its search for the popular young sportsman on Tuesday, but his father said his son is a master diver who works on commercial fishing boats, and he remains confident Levion is still alive.

'As soon as he went off the side, I prayed over him,' he told the Florida Sun.

'I was confident the prayers I said over my son were heard.

'I believe he is alive.'

The minimum age for drinking on Royal Caribbean cruises departing from the US and the Caribbean is 21, and the source said that alcohol is confiscated from guests attempting to bring it on board.

But it was more than nine hours after leaving the Dominican Republic that Levion jumped through the open window, and Francel said the company was culpable for Levion's disappearance.

'We don't drink. I'd like to know how my son was served so much alcohol,' he demanded.

Levion had been with his brother Seth and chatting to other guests in a hot tub on the 11th deck until 3.30am on the final night of the four-day cruise

Social media pictures portray a happy and sporty young man who loved deep sea fishing

'We chatted about different things, and he told me that he worked on yachts and other types of boats in Florida,' passenger Bryan Sims told Dailymail.com

'His dad was fussing at him for being drunk, I guess,' fellow passenger Bryan Sims said, 'When we got to them, he said to his dad, 'I'll fix this right now.' And he jumped out the window in front of us all'

The 11th deck boasts an array of whirlpools, swimming pools and a 'Splashaway Bar'

Social media posts suggest Levion was a popular and athletic young man who loved hunting and fishing, and played football for North Port High School before he graduated in 2022.

Sims said Levion and his brother had been chatting happily in the hot tub on the 11th deck of the 154,000 ton liner just moments before the horrific incident on April 4.

'I had hung out with him and his brother in the hot tub until 3.30am,' Sims told the NY Post.

The layout for the back of 11th deck shows the whirlpool at the top right where Levion was bathing before throwing himself from a window next to the Splashaway Bay 

'It was standing room only. He sat right beside me the whole time.

'We chatted about different things, and he told me that he worked on yachts and other types of boats in Florida.

'I would say around 3.30 to 3.45am him and his brother left the hot tub. I just assumed they were headed to bed.

'Everyone had left the hot tub by 4am and went their separate ways.

'I got out, went to the restroom, dried off, put my shirt on and was walking from the front of the ship to the back elevators to go down to my room.

'When I got near the back of the ship on the pool deck I noticed him his brother and dad coming out of the sliding doors there near the elevators.

'They were walking in my direction and his dad had his arm around him and they were talking.

'When they got right in front of me as we were passing each other, he pulled himself away from his dad and said 'I'll fix this for you right now', and that's when he jumped out of the window.

'It was literally 8 to 10 feet in front of me.'

'It was one of the sliding windows by the soft serve ice cream machine.

'The ship was moving pretty fast cause it was during the night, and we were traveling a long distance.

'We were screaming and his dad was calling everyone to stop the ship.

'I do know from what I've heard it takes about a mile to get the ship stopped and turned around.

'Lots of crew were up top and they started launching the smaller boats to search after we got turned around and back to the area I'm assuming.'

Levion's father owns an air conditioning business and the family was aboard as guests of Florida-based air conditioning wholesalers Tropic Supply.

It had invited dozens of their contractors along for the trip to mark the company's 50th anniversary.

The boat has docked in the Dominican Republic the previous day and was 57 miles off the coast of the Bahamas Grand Inagua when the alarm was raised.

Passenger Deborah Morrison said the crew were 'alerted immediately' by the 'yelling' which erupted, and the man's family appeared 'beside themselves'.

The 1,100 foot ship was slammed into brought to a halt and crew members immediately began looking for the missing passenger.

But most of the 4,000 passengers on board only became aware of the tragedy when the captain broke the news the following morning.

'They announced it over the PA system while we were at breakfast at the entire room went silent,' wrote one passenger on Reddit. 'Then the rest of the cruise felt oddly casual.'

Some passengers scanned the of the young man before the ship resumed its journey just before 9am when the US Coast Guard cutter Seneca arrived at the spot.

'The early morning was definitely somber as so many people came out of their cabins to stare at the sea, hoping to be able to aid in finding the person,' said passenger Amy Phelps Fouse.

'It was a sad morning looking out just to see if we come find a clue,' wrote another.

'I was on the ship and when the coast guard arrived and we got underway I couldn't help think how they must be feeling they were leaving their son behind,' added Linda Meissner Nuffe.

The young man is thought to have been staying with his family on deck 10, a flight below the whirlpools and hot tubs of deck 11.

Nuffe, who was staying in the cabin next door, woke to find a lock on the door of the family's cabin and a crew member standing guard outside.

'I saw a person go in that cabin on day one,' she said.

'I thought it was a teen or he could have been 20. My daughter and I were telling him how I sometimes put my deco on other doors the last night to confuse people. He laughed.

'He was quiet and polite, not someone who seemed like a raging alcoholic like the press seems to be saying.

'We never heard a noise out of that cabin, no partying, no arguing, no slamming doors. I looked over our balcony at theirs after I saw the lock, there was nothing but chairs there.'

More than 400 passengers are known to have fallen overboard from cruise liners in the past 30 years according to watchdog cruisejunkie.com.

A study by Cruise Lines International Association found that only 28 percent of those who fell overboard between 2009 and 2019 came out alive.

Travel lawyer and blogger Jim Walker said that Royal Caribbean along with the vast majority of US cruise companies have yet to install automatic man overboard systems as required by the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act of 2010.

'Such automatic MOB systems utilize state-of-the-art motion detection, video and infrared technology and radar to instantly detect when someone goes over the rails of a cruise ship,' he said.

'The system can then track the person's movements in the water even at nighttime.

'Without such a system, the chances of locating an overboard person in the water at night it like finding a needle in a haystack.'

The search by the US Coast Guard has since been suspended, a spokesperson for the US Coast Guard 7th District Public Affairs Team confirmed.

The Solarium Bar is just feet away from the hot tub where Levion spent his last evening

Levion with a catch from a night time fishing expedition 

Passenger Bryan Sims was among the last people to speak to Levion and was less than 10 feet away when the young man jumped to his death in front of his horrified father

The 154,000 ton Royal Caribbean ship was sailing with more than 4,000 passengers on a four-day cruise from Fort Lauderdale to the Dominican Republic and back

Francel told Dailymail.com that the family is consulting lawyers and is planning to issue a statement.

A Royal Caribbean spokesperson said: 'Our hearts go out to the family, and we continue to offer them our support and assistance during this difficult time. 

'Our policies strictly prohibit guests under the age of 21 from being served alcohol onboard.'