Mind moving over, Pavarotti?

When you tip the scales at 25 stone or so, a life on the ocean wave can have its problems.

Such as the boat listing at a dramatic angle when you happen to move over to one side.

Luciano Pavarotti hired the small motorboat while holidaying with wife Nicoletta and their daughter Alice at their summer home in the east coast Italian resort of Pesaro, near Rimini.

As Nicoletta dangled 18-month-old Alice in the Adriatic, the titanic tenor moved over to have a look - with disastrous results for the vessel's equilibrium. Thankfully, however, he returned to the centre of the boat before any damage was done.

Pavarotti, 68, married 33-year-old Nicoletta, his former personal assistant, in December last year.

Soon afterwards he delivered his final opera performance after almost four decades on stage.

He received a ten-minute standing ovation after singing Tosca at New York's Metropolitan Opera.