Defense Video and Imagery Distribution Services reports that the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a passenger from a Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) cruise ship near Turks and Caicos yesterday morning.

A Coast Guard crew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Clearwater, Florida, operating out of Great Inagua, Bahamas, flew to the NCL ship approximately 84 miles northeast of Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands. 

The woman was hoisted from the Norwegian Getaway shortly after 11 A.M. yesterday after she began suffering symptoms of pneumonia.

The woman was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Turks and Caicos.