Cruise Ship Helicopter Rescue

Ports but still sail in Canadian waters.

Cruise ship helicopter rescue. The Solstice had departed the Bay of Islands. By Jim Walker on October 9 2019. Helicopter rescues are regularly used to evacuate cruise ship passengers that fall ill given the speed required to reach vessels that may be far out to sea.

Passengers rescued by helicopter from the cruise ship Viking Sky are seen in Hustadvika Norway on Saturday. Using its own engines the ship arrived in Molde at 1620 with 436 passengers and 458 crewmembers. OSLO Rescue helicopters evacuated more than 150 people from a luxury cruise ship which suffered engine failure on.

Helicopter nearly runs out of fuel airlifting sick Carnival Cruise passenger 75 miles to shore in nail-biting rescue. Canadian Air Force helicopter rescues sick passenger from cruise ship off Vancouver Island. Rescue workers then launched a high-risk evacuation of the ships 1300 passengers and crew winching them one-by-one up to helicopters as heaving waves tossed the ship from side to side.

Rescue teams with helicopters and boats were sent to evacuate the cruise ship under extremely difficult circumstances including gusts up to 38 knots 43 mph and waves over 8 meters 26 feet. A cruise ship with engine problems sent a mayday call off Norways western coast on Saturday then began evacuating its 1300 passengers and crew amid stormy seas and heavy winds in a high-risk helicopter rescue. Smaller rescue helicopters are the only ones that will be light enough and small enough to be able to land on the ship providing it is close enough.

Rescue workers off Norways western coast rushed to evacuate 1300 passengers and crew from a disabled cruise ship by helicopter on Saturday winching them one-by-one to safety as heaving waves tossed the ship from side to side and high winds battered the operation. The Republic of Singapore Air Force RSAF recently evacuated a sick man from a cruise to a hospital using a helicopter. It was frightening at first.

Alaska-bound cruise ships are banned from BC. Passenger Alexus Sheppard told the AP that people with injuries or disabilities were winched off the cruise ship first. Last night October 8 2019 the Coast Guard of New Zealand dispatched a helicopter to the Celebrity Solstice to medevac a crew member who needed to be hospitalized.