A Princess Cruises ship, the Emerald Princess, had a passenger medevac'd from the ship on October 14. The airlift took place early in the morning after medical personnel on the ship identified the older, male passenger as having symptoms of possible stroke. A Navy MH-60R Seahawk helicopter crew from the...
Author: John Kennerty
Do We Really Need Tips on How Not to Fall Off a Cruise Ship: Perhaps We Do
It may seem silly for an article's content to be based around "how not to fall off of a cruise ship", but Lifehacker.com's recent article How Not To Fall Off a Cruise Ship did just that. What isn't silly is that, according to research provided by the trade group Cruise...
Body of American Cruise Ship Singer to be Exhumed: Family Still Seeks Answers
News.com.au reports, "a talented cruise ship singer was mysteriously discovered dead inside her cabin five years ago. Now her parents are taking a dramatic step to get answers." Jackie Kastrinelis, 24 at the time of her death, was the lead singer on the Seven Seas Voyager Regent Cruise Ship when...
Queens Man, New York Man Indicted For Strangling A Woman On Cruise Ship
On Oct. 11, Cruise Law News reports that, "the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York alleged yesterday that a cruise passenger, identified in court papers as Carlos Batista Jr. of Elmhurst, New York, assaulted his girlfriend and choked her until she passed out during a...
Caught on Video: Hurricane Michael Batters Royal Caribbean Ship
A short video taken by a passenger on Royal Caribbean's Empress of the Seas captured Hurricane Michael's outer bands as the ship traveled near was near la Isla de Juventud, Cuba on Oct. 8 a few days before the hurricane made landfall in the Florida panhandle. Live look: @RoyalCaribbean’s #EmpressoftheSeas...
Two British Cruise Ship Passengers Killed During Excursion
According to news reports in The Star and The Mirror, two women traveling aboard a Fred Olsen Cruise Lines ship were killed after being struck by a vehicle. The two women, were apparently stepping off a tour bus into traffic when a driver hit them and another passenger. The third...
Princess Cruises Passenger Airlifted From Ship After Suspected Stroke
According to KATU.com in Oregon, "A 77-year-old woman was medically evacuated from a cruise ship in Oregon waters after suffering a stroke. The U.S. Coast Guard said a crew airlifted the woman from the Grand Princess cruise ship Saturday morning about 55 miles southwest of Newport, Oregon." The incident occurred...
2nd Degree Murder on Carnival Cruise; Man Kills Wife
Earlier this month, Eric Newman of Topeka, Kansas was indicted for the second degree murder of his wife, Tamara Tucker. According to the Kansas City Star, the indictment said Newman was traveling with Tucker on board a cruise ship called the Carnival Elation on Jan. 19. Court records didn’t specify...
Norwegian Escape Cruise Passenger Airlifted After Possible Stroke
According to the Coast Guard website, the Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod aircrew medevaced a 78-year-old man Saturday (Sept. 22) from the cruise ship Norwegian Escape after he suffered a possible stroke 40 nautical miles south of Nantucket. The crew of the Norwegian Cruise Ship notified Coast Guard watchstanders...
Holland America Passenger Medevaced From Cruise Ship in Alaska Waters
A news release from the U.S. Coast Guard stated a woman was medevaced from a Holland America cruise ship near Ketchikan, Alaska on Thursday (Sept. 13th). According to the statement, A 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew from Coast Guard Station Ketchikan medevaced the 71-year-old passenger displaying stroke symptoms and brought her...