Per Local 12 News in Miami, Ohio "a Finneytown family says they are lucky their son is alive. The 8-year-old collapsed during cardiac arrest on a family vacation. The problem was they were on a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean. The good news is Noah Anderson is...
Category: Passenger Illness
Watch as Coast Guard Medevacs Sick Royal Caribbean Passenger Off Boat
The video, as posted by the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, shows the U.S. Coast Guard medevacing a passenger. The man was taken from the ship on July 14 while the Royal Caribbean ship, Adventure of the Seas, was cruising off the coast of Charleston, S.C. Apparently the man was...
2 Passengers Airlifted from Carnival Pride Near Virginia Beach, Taken Safely To Norfolk Hospital
The U.S. Coast Guard, acting to save two passengers of the Carnival Pride cruise ship, airlifted them from the ship on Monday. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter flew from Elizabeth City to the cruise ship which was roughly nine miles east of Virginia Beach, VA. According to CBS17.com, "a 69-year-old woman...
Norovirus Strikes Passengers on Ovation of the Seas
In a Huffington News report (read it here), 'hundreds of passengers' were suffering from norovirus symptoms -- the cruise was Royal Caribbean's Ovation of the Seas trip from Singapore to Tasmania. The world's 4th largest cruise ship, Ovation of the Seas can carry over 5,000 passengers. According to the arcticle,...
Passenger Airlifted From Royal Caribbean’s Grandeur of the Seas
According to news reports at 13NewsNow.com and CruiseLawNews.com, the Coast Guard medevaced a passenger Wednesday from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. The boat, the Grandeur of the Seas, was about 95 miles east of Cape Lookout, North Carolina in the Atlantic Ocean. View video of the airlift here: The Coast...
Royal Caribbean Cruise Struck With Norovirus, Cruise Ends Early
Over the weekend, a Royal Caribbean cruise ship - the Grandeur of the Seas - cut short its travel plans when 200 passengers and crew became ill with Norovirus. Quick highlights of the story: Norovirus - a frequent passenger on cruise ships these days Norovirus spread throughout Royal Caribbean passengers...
Female Passenger Transported From Norwegian Gem With Medical Complications
Last evening (January 29, 2015) a woman traveling on the Norwegian Cruise Ship, Gem, was medevaced to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. According to a report on the WTKR.com website in Norfolk, the U.S. Coast Guard picked up the female passenger approximately 220 miles southeast of Portsmouth, Virginia....
Passenger With Heart Attack Like Symptoms Medevaced From Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship
Coast Guard picks up passenger Over the weekend, a passenger who was experiencing 'heart attack like' symptoms was air lifted from the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, Vision of the Seas, while in Tampa Bay, Florida. According to local TV reports, a crew member of the vessel contacted the Coast Guard...
Again? Princess Cruises’ Crown Princess Deals With Norovirus Outbreak
Another Norovirus outbreak - this time on the Crown Princess - has the cruise industry scratching its collective head. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 158 of 3,009 passengers (5.25%) reported being sick. The majority of the cases, 145, took place in the last 15 days of the voyage. A...
US Coast Guard Transports Sick Passenger From Carnival Ecstasy Cruise Ship Off Key West
On Friday August 8, the U.S. Coast Guard was able to rescue and transport a sick passenger from a Carnival Cruise Ship. Per a local Miami News Report, Coast Guard officials learned 51 year-old man cruising on Carnival Ecstasy began suffering chest pains. This happened roughly 250 nautical miles east off of the Florida Keys....