The U.S. Coast Guard website reports that it medically evacuated a 41-year-old woman from the Carnival Glory cruise ship today. The passenger reportedly exhibited stroke-like symptoms.
The cruise ship was approximately 55 miles southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts at the time of the emergency.
Coast Guard Sector Boston received the word from the Carnival cruise ship at
A newspaper in Savannah reports that yesterday the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a 63 year old woman from a cruise ship sailing in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 60 miles east of Savannah to a local hospital in Savannah.
Coast Guard Sector Charleston received notification at about around 10:08 p.m. Saturday night from crew members aboard
The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a woman from a cruise ship 145 miles south east of Galveston, on Apr. 1, 2012.
The Coast Guard station in Houston-Galveston received a report at approximately 8:08 p.m., that a 44-year old female crew member aboard the cruise ship, Carnival Magic, was having complications with her pregnancy. A
A 73 tear old passenger from the Carnival Triumph received a ride of a lifetime when an U.S. Coast Guard helicopter plucked him from the deck of the cruise ship and flew him to Galveston for emergency medical treatment.
The Carnival cruise ship was around 120 miles off the coast of Galveston when the Coast Guard performed
The LA Times reports that yesterday the U.S. Coast Guard saved the life of a 77 year old cruise passenger from the Carnival Spirit while the cruise ship was 230 miles southwest of San Diego.
The cruise passenger reportedly showed signs of a stroke and was medically evacuated from the Carnival cruise ship by a U.S. Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter dispatched
BBC News is reporting today on the dramatic rescue of a critically ill passenger from Royal Caribbean’s Independence of the Seas.
The U.K. Coast Guard was notified by the captain of the Independence of the Seas on Saturday night that a passenger was very ill and needed to be evacuated from the cruise ship. A helicopter
WVEC (local ABC channel 13) reports that the Coast Guard airlifted an ill 60 year old passenger from a cruise ship off the coast of North Carolina yesterday.
The passenger was sailing on Carnival’s Miracle when he had a heart attack.
The Coast Guard sent a MH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter from Air Station Elizabeth City to medevac the man from the Carnival
The U.S. Coast Guard evacuated a 46 year old passenger from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico following a fall on Saturday.
Passenger Andrew Spicer was aboard Holland America Line’s Ryndam cruise ship when he was reportedly injured. The cruise was roughly 120 miles southwest of St. Petersburg when the Coast Guard helicopter arrived around
The United States Coast Guard crews medevaced an ill thirteen year old from the Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) Jewel cruise ship near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina on Saturday.
The boy had symptoms of acute appendicitis. The Coast Guard lifted the boy and his mother from the deck of the Jewel and flew them to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
This is the type of story which
Medivac defintion: "Air transport of persons to a place where they can receive medical or surgical care; medical evacuation."
"Medivac" is a word that you hope the cruise ship doctor has heard before if you become seriously ill or injured during a cruise. As I have mentioned in prior blogs, a cruise ship is the last
This was a busy weekend for the U.S. Coast Guard.
Last night around 7:15 p.m., the Carnival Glory cruise ship notified the Coast Guard in Miami that a 36 year-old pregnant woman needed emergency medical treatment. The Carnival Glory departed the Port of Miami at 4 p.m. Sunday and was en route to the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Coast
