Something sounds fishy to me

This story about a couple who "fell" off a cruise ship - he was nude when found five hours later - sounds awfully suspicious to me. Their friends conveniently heard them scream as they fell from their cabin balcony.

I'm reminded of the story that ran in either Alfred Hitchcock's or Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine about the man who wants to win the ship's pool, which is based on arrival time. He jumps over the side of the ship in front of a woman so that the ship will stop and find him, slowing it down, but it turns out she's dotty and her keeper doesn't believe her. Lovely story.

So maybe these people really did fall off and their friends really did hear them and they're all very lucky and I'm just jaded from reading one too many pieces of fiction...