Airlift Emergency From A Cruise Ship

A dramatic airlift at sea took place on Thursday when the United States Coast Guard was called to assist a passenger who suffered a stroke aboard a cruise.

Airlift emergency from a cruise ship. Keep in mind the captain of the ship is under no obligation and may even be prohibited from changing course to get you to a hospital sooner. Video of USCG helo airlifting 15 year old girl to San Juan for emergency appendectomy surgery. Medical evacuations are highly risky procedures that involve laws and regulations of air and sea coordination of emergency crew and ship crew and coordination between aircraft and ship.

Under most circumstances the Captain will make every effort to get the ship into a nearby port to evacuate a sick passenger. Taken from the Caribbean Princess in 2006. Dramatic operation to airlift a sick British tourist from a PO cruise ship off Spain is captured in footage from the search-and-rescue helicopter.

This weekend a Viking Sky cruise ship was stranded after engine failure and needed to airlift over 470 people to safety. The Viking Sky lost power and started drifting mid-afternoon Saturday in perilous waters two kilometres off Møre og Romsdal prompting the captain to send out a distress call. There was a total of 1300 passengers and crew on board the rest were assisted to shore with tug boats and supply ships.

A couple has described the frightening experience of being airlifted off a cruise ship which got into difficulties off the coast of Norway amid stormy seas. The reality is that air evacuation from a cruise ship is relatively rare. The airlift was continuing in the early morning Fjeld said.

The Viking Sky lost power and started drifting mid-afternoon on Saturday in perilous waters two kilometres off More og Romsdal prompting the captain to. In this circumstance the United States Coast Guard or air ambulance service would pull up alongside or if heliport equipped land on the cruise ship and the passengers affected would be taken off the ship. Recently the Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue unit evacuated three guests off a cruise ship by boat.

According to cruise news the woman and her husband were taken out of the cruise ship. You could find yourself on a cruise and the ships captain makes an announcement that the ship has stopped for an emergency medical evacuation. A woman cruise ship passenger who fell ill was airlifted by the US.