The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a passenger from a Carnival cruise ship off the North Carolina coast yesterday. 

The Coast Guard reports that yesterday, around noon, the Carnival Pride cruise ship contacted the Coast Guard command center in Wilmington reporting that a 71-year-old man was suffering a heart attack while the ship was approximately 40 miles east of Morehead City, North Carolina.

The Coast Guard’s station in Elizabeth City dispatched a MH-80 helicopter which flew to the cruise ship and hoisted the passenger and a nurse and transported them to Vidant Medical Center in Greenville. There is no reported information regarding the man’s condition. 

Image credit: United States Coast Guard District 5; Defense Video Imagery Distribution System (copyright information).

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