Cruise news (medevac-tagged)
- Accidents
Crew medevaced from Oceania Cruises' ship Marina
A female crew onboard the Oceania Marina ship has been medically evacuated in Greece due to an urgent medical condition. Ship officers have...
May 4, 2023 - Accidents
Coast Guard helicopter nearly crashes into ocean while performing medevac from Carnival Dream
A US Coast Guard rescue helicopter attempting to perform a medical evacuation from a cruise ship on Saturday, April 29th, nearly crashed into the...
May 4, 2023 - Accidents
San Diego's Coast Guard helicopter crews rescue 4 passengers from 3 cruise ships within 24 hours
US Coast Guard helicopter teams in San Diego CA rescued 4 people with serious medical conditions from 3 different cruise ships within a 24-hour...
May 1, 2023 - Accidents
Crew medevaced from cruise ship MSC Virtuosa
Soon after the departure from Port Hamburg (Germany), a crew member onboard MSC Virtuosa ship required urgent medical attention and had to be...
April 19, 2023 - Accidents
93-year-old passenger medevaced from Carnival Vista cruise ship off Galveston TX
In an unfortunate turn of events, a 93-year-old woman aboard the Carnival Vista cruise ship had to be evacuated and taken to a local hospital in...
April 10, 2023 - Accidents
Passenger medevaced from Princess Cruises' ship Majestic Princess
An elderly passenger aboard the Majestic Princess cruise ship was airlifted by helicopter to Auckland City Hospital after experiencing a medical...
April 8, 2023 - Accidents
MSC Meraviglia ship makes a medical emergency stop at PortMiami Florida
MSC cruise ship Meraviglia made an emergency stop off PortMiami (Florida USA) in the early morning of March 8th to medevac a male passenger in need...
March 9, 2023 - Accidents
Interislander ferry turns back to Wellington NZ due to medical emergency on board
An Interislander ferry had to turn back to Wellington (New Zealand) shortly after setting sail on Monday after a passenger suffered a medical...
February 20, 2023 - Accidents
USCG aircrews conduct 2 medevacs from cruise ships (near Dominicana) to Puerto Rico
CG-Coast Guard aircrews medevaced a cruise passenger from RCI-Royal Caribbean's ship Symphony OTS on Monday, February 6th, and a second passenger...
February 8, 2023 - Accidents
57-year-old passenger medevaced from Royal Caribbean’s ship Allure OTS
A 57-year-old woman is in a hospital after the U.S. Coast Guard rescued her by flight from an RCI-Royal Caribbean cruise ship ~50 miles off Galveston...
January 26, 2023 - Accidents
43-year-old passenger with cardiac arrest medevaced from Royal Caribbean’s ship Serenade OTS
Crew members from U.S.C.G. Station Cortez, Bradenton, medevaced a 43-year-old British national experiencing a cardiac event on January 1st from Royal...
January 10, 2023 - Accidents
Crew medevaced from Princess Cruises' ship Coral Princess after falling onboard
A man in his 30s was flown to Waikato Hospital in Hamilton (New Zealand) after being injured in a fall on board the Princess Cruises' Coral Princess...
January 10, 2023 - Accidents
Crew medevaced from CCL-Carnival Cruise Line's ship Carnival Valor
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) released footage of another rescue involving a CCL-Carnival Cruise Line ship as they were called to medevac a 29-year-old...
December 5, 2022 - Accidents
MSC Grandiosa ship docks in Palma earlier due to medical emergency
MSC Grandiosa docked in Palma de Mallorca (Majorca Island, Balearic Spain) 7 hours earlier than scheduled on Friday morning, October 7, due to a...
October 8, 2022 - Accidents
73-year-old woman medevaced from Holland America's ship ms Westerdam
A 73-year-old woman with symptoms of a mild cardiac infarction was medevaced from a HAL-Holland America cruise ship close to Port Angeles (Washington...
October 4, 2022