The recent emergency medevac (medical evacuation) from the mega cruise ship Regal Princess off Falmouth generated much interest from Packet readers. But what is a medevac and what is the procedure ...

Hawaii" aboard a cruise ship last week is recovering after being airlifted to a hospital, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) announced. Video of the rescue shows a Coast Guard medevac helicopter hovering ...

Watch this high-definition footage of a U.S. Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin crew circle a cruise ship before executing the medevac of a passenger approximately 290 miles from the coast of Miami, Florida.

The United States Coast Guard successfully completed a dramatic rescue from a cruise ship in the Pacific Ocean. On Thursday, emergency personnel medevaced a passenger from aboard Holland America ...

Cruise ships are hardly unique ... If a ship is close enough to land, instead of calling in a medevac it may head to the nearest port so the sick passenger can be transported to a nearby hospital.

The U.S. Coast Guard was called to medically evacuate an 8-year-old boy from a cruise ship off the coast of northern California. The Coast Guard said it dispatched a medevac helicopter "around 8 a ...

#BREAKING Today, @USCG crews from Air Station Port Angeles successfully medevac’d a 54 Y/O male experiencing stroke-like symptoms from the cruise ship Norwegian Bliss near Cape Flattery ...

A 66-year-old woman aboard the Koningsdam was experiencing stroke symptoms when the crew requested a medevac. A woman was evacuated from a cruise ship off the coast of California after ...

a Holland America Line cruise ship, that a 72-year-old man had experienced multiple stroke episodes on board. The duty flight surgeon recommended a medevac within 20 hours. The USCG deployed an HC ...