Posts Tagged ‘cruise ship’

Video - Coast Guard Airlifts Cruise Ship Passenger

December 4th, 2008

A helicopter crew from Air Station Elizabeth City airlifts a passenger of the cruise ship Explorer of The Seas 130 miles east of Cape Hatteras on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008.

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Coast Guard medevacs man from cruise ship 180-miles off Galveston coast

November 30th, 2008

HOUSTON - The Coast Guard medevaced a 52-year-old male off the Carnival cruise ship Conquest, approximately 180-miles southeast off the coast of Galveston, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008.

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Coast Guard helo performs medevac

November 11th, 2008

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego based Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk performed a medevac of a woman off the cruise ship STAR PRINCESS this afternoon at approximately 2:45 p.m.

The Coast Guard command center received word that the woman was in distress and needed immediate medical attention. The helicopter was immediately diverted to the area 120 miles west of San Diego, hoisted the woman, and transferred her to Scripps Memorial hospital for surgery.

Coast Guard delivers blood to cruise ship passenger

November 8th, 2008

PORTSMOUTH, Va. - A Coast Guard helicopter crew transported blood to a cruise ship passenger 105 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., Saturday.

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Coast Guard conducts medical evacuation from cruise ship

November 3rd, 2008

SAN DIEGO — A Coast Guard Sector San Diego helicopter crew conducted a medical evacuation of a 71-year-old man from the cruise ship Norwegian Sun, 80 miles west of San Diego at 7:15 a.m., today.

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Coast Guard medevacs woman from Carnivaal cruise ship Ecstasy

October 27th, 2008

NEW ORLEANS - The Coast Guard medevaced a 67-year-old woman from a cruise ship approximately 220-miles south of New Orleans late Sunday, Oct. 26 2008.

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Sector San Diego has two medical evacuations in one night

October 22nd, 2008

SAN DIEGO - Crews from Coast Guard Sector San Diego completed two medical evacuations tonight in separate incidents.

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Southeast Alaska Mass Rescue Exercise 2009

October 21st, 2008

JUNEAU, Alaska - The City of Ketchikan Alaska, Holland America Line, Customs and Border Protection, and Coast Guard Sector Juneau have initiated planning efforts to jointly sponsor a mass rescue exercise simulating the joint response to the evacuation of a cruise ship in Southeast Alaska.

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