The U.S. Coast Guard reports that it dispatched a helicopter to medevac a passenger from a Carnival cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday evening.
The Coast Guard said that it received a report from the Carnival Triumph on Wednesday evening that a 45-year-old male passenger was suffering from an apparent heart attack.
The
We regularly report on medevacs of passengers and crew members from cruise ships.
The majority of the medevacs occur near U.S. ports courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard. But there are medevacs which occur outside of the United States, including those performed by the Portuguese Air Force.
The latest rescue involved the P&O Aurora, on
The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a passenger from a Carnival cruise ship yesterday.
The Coast Guard medevaced a 72-year-old woman Saturday from the Carnival Pride which was approximately 50 miles east of Savannah, Georgia.
The Carnival ship notified the Coast Guard station in Charleston around noon that the woman was experiencing pneumonia but was not
The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a 66-year-old passenger woman on Sunday from the Carnival Conquest cruise ship.
The Carnival ship was 27 miles north of Cat Island, Bahamas when the woman was medevaced.
The passengers was reportedly suffering symptoms of a stroke. The Coast Guard station in Clearwater deployed a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew.
According
Military Technologies reports that the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a 66 year old passenger last night. The woman was reportedly seriously injured after she fell down stairs on a Disney cruise ship at approximately 8 P.M. Monday evening. The passenger reportedly suffered a serious injury described as a skull fracture and bleeding.
The ship, the
The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a 63-year-old woman from a Holland America Line (HAL) cruise ship approximately 60 miles east of Virginia Beach yesterday morning.
The HAL Rotterdam was sailing from Boston to Fort Lauderdale, Florida when it requested the Coast Guard to medically evacuation a passenger who was reportedly suffering from stroke-like symptoms.
At
According to the Crew Center website, earlier this week the Greek Coast Guard medevaced a 55 year old cruise passenger from the Mein Schiff cruise ship.
On October 19, 2016, a helicopter medically evacuated the German passenger who was suffering from cardiac symptoms when the ship was sailing six miles south of the island of
Today, a passenger aboard the Carnival Vista notified me that there was a medevac from the cruise ship. The ship had previously left Barcelona for Gibraltar.
The passenger who contacted me wishes to remain anonymous. He took photos and video of the medical rescue.
There was no mention whether the passenger was ill or had
Two crew members and a passenger were reportedly medevaced from two P&O cruise ships within a 24 hour period, according to several newspapers in Australia.
The Gold Coast Bulletin reported that Rescue 500, the Queensland Government air rescue helicopter service, medevaced a male patient from the Pacific Pearl about 70 nautical miles east of the
The Defense Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS) reports that the U.S Coast Guard medevaced a 47 year old crew member from the Ruby Princess early this morning.
The air medevac took place when the Princess Cruises cruise ship was approximately 9 miles southwest of Point Loma, San Diego.
The Ruby Princess contacted the Coast Guard in
The Portuguese Air Force reports that yesterday, it rescued a passenger from the Mein Schiff 1 cruise ship, about 100 kilometers northwest of Montijo. The passenger, an 80 years old German woman, needed urgent medical attention, according to the official site of the Estado Maior da Força Aérea (EMFA).
The 751 Squadron at the
The Defense Video Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS) reports that yesterday the Coast Guard medevaced a 71-year-old female passenger from a Carnival cruise ship near the Southwest Pass, Louisiana.
The crew of the Carnival Dream notified the Coast Guard that the female was suffering from signs of severe respiratory distress.
Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Alexandria
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This morning the Grandeur of the Seas, cruising from Bermuda to Baltimore, changed course and took steps to assist what turned out to be a small abandoned vessel adrift on the high seas.
The Royal Caribbean cruise ship stopped and investigated the derelict vessel. Cruise ships often stop and administer assistance in circumstances like
The People’s Daily China, a newspaper in China, reported on the "miraculous’ rescue of a thirty-two year old woman from Shanghai, who reportedly fell from a cruise ship. The newspaper tweeted that she reportedly swam for 38 hours and was then rescued by fishermen.
Earlier today the People’s Daily’s twitter page @PDChina tweeted:
@PDChina "32-year-old
The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced two cruise ship passengers from NCL’s Norwegian Gem today. The NCL cruise ship was off the Virginia coast at the time of the rescue.
The Norwegian Gem notified the Coast Guard shortly after 2:00 a.m. that two men had experienced unspecified medical complications when the ship was approximately 75 miles
The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a nineteen year old cruise ship passenger, yesterday, from NCL’s Norwegian Breakaway. The cruise passengers was reportedly experiencing severe stomach pain.
The Norwegian Breakaway alerted the Coast Guard yesterday morning that the passenger needed medical treatment when the ship was approximately 400 miles off the North Carolina coast while
The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced two people from a NCL cruise ship this afternoon.
The rescue was initiated when the Norwegian Breakaway, returning to New York from Bermuda, contacted the Coast Guard indicating that a 28 year old woman aboard the cruise ship was experiencing stomach pain. A 38 year old man was also reportedly
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Yesterday, I commented on our Facebook page on the report of a cruise passenger that the Norwegian Spirit, together with the Italian Coast Guard, were involved in assisting what were initially believed to be 300 Syrian immigrants at sea. The NCL cruise ship left Naples heading for Mikonos. A passenger said that that according to
