Cruise Passenger with Head Injury Medevaced from Carnival Valor

   August 4, 2017 ,   Accidents

A Coast Guard air rescue has saved an injured woman onboard a Carnival Cruise Line's ship close to Galveston TX Thursday night. 

Sometime before 7:00 p.m. Carnival Valor has called in a report of a 30-year-old passenger who had fallen and injured her head.

The Coast Guard flew out to the cruise ship, 10 miles east of Galveston, and hoisted the cruiser into an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter. 

The woman was rushed to Galveston's University of Texas Medical Branch in stable condition.