Cruise Ship Helicopter Rescue
The Solstice had departed the Bay of Islands.
Cruise ship helicopter rescue. For those of you that have seen helicopters on a cruise ship it is usually parked up in port anchored off the shore and has transported crews or executives to the ship. The Norwegian newspaper VG said the Viking Sky cruise ship ran into propulsion problems as bad weather hit Norways coastal regions on Saturday and it started drifting toward land. Alaska-bound cruise ships are banned from BC.
Passengers rescued from the Viking Sky cruise ship are helped by emergency services in Hustadvika Norway Saturday March 23 2019. Helicopter nearly runs out of fuel airlifting sick Carnival Cruise passenger 75 miles to shore in nail-biting rescue. The Republic of Singapore Air Force RSAF recently evacuated a sick man from a cruise to a hospital using a helicopter.
Their quick action even on New Years Day is reassuring to Singaporeans as that means we can be speedily rescued in the event of an emergency 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Ports but still sail in Canadian waters. By Jim Walker on October 9 2019.
Norways Joint Rescue Coordination Center stepped up sending five helicopters in. Rescue workers are evacuating more passengers from a cruise ship that had engine problems in bad weather off Norways western coast while authorities prepare to tow the vessel to a nearby port. Rescue helicopters took more than 475 passengers from a cruise ship that got stranded off Norways western coast in bad weather before the vessel departed for a nearby port with nearly 900 people.
Coastguard Rescue 175 has been scrambled to assist the crew of the cruise ship Disney. Canadian Air Force helicopter rescues sick passenger from cruise ship off Vancouver Island. 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.
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. RSAF uses helicopter to take man with critical condition on cruise ship in high seas to SGH on New Years Day First rescue mission of the year. Norway cruise passengers rescued by helicopter after ships engine fails.
