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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
