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…
Last night, the U.S. Coast Guard performed a medical evacuation of a 75-year-old passenger who became sick while cruising on the Holland America cruise ship, Oosterdam, about 180 miles southwest of San Diego.
A HC-130 Hercules aircraft from the Coast Guard station in Sacramento located the HAL ship ship. A MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter dispatched from the Coast Guard’s San Diego…
The Coast Guard is reporting that it medically evacuated a 17-year-old female passenger from a cruise ship 83 nautical miles southeast of Wilmington, N.C. Monday.
Coast Guard Sector Hampton Roads received a phone call from a crewmember aboard the cruise ship Carnival Pride at approximately 8 p.m. stating that there was a female aboard who…
Cruise Law News is a big fan of the United States Coast Guard which came to the rescue of a 79-year-old passenger aboard the Carnival cruise ship Spirit yesterday.
According to 10News.com, the Carnival cruise ship was about 570 miles south of San Diego when the vessel notified the USCG that a passenger was experiencing health problems. At around 3:45 p.m. on Thursday, a…
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…
Heart attacks on cruise ships are one of the leading causes of passenger deaths. The U.S. and the Canadian Coast Guards do a remarkable job rescuing passengers from cruise ships, far distances from the mainland.
The video below show the rescue by the Canadian Coast Guard of a 78 year old passenger who suffered a heart attack and was in critical…
