Cruise Ship Helicopter Rescue

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Cruise ship helicopter rescue. Passengers rescued from the Viking Sky cruise ship are helped by emergency services in Hustadvika Norway Saturday March 23 2019. Passengers are helped from a rescue helicopter in Fraena Norway Sunday March 24 2019 after being rescued from the Viking Sky cruise ship. By Jim Walker on October 9 2019.

And when the general alarm sounded it became VERY real she wrote in a text. Janet Jacob among the first group. 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.

It was frightening at first. 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. Using its own engines the ship arrived in Molde at 1620 with 436 passengers and 458 crewmembers.

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. The Solstice had departed the Bay of Islands. Alaska-bound cruise ships are banned from BC.

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. 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. 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.

Coastguard Rescue 175 has been scrambled to assist the crew of the cruise ship Disney. 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. Canadian Air Force helicopter rescues sick passenger from cruise ship off Vancouver Island.