Cruise Ship Helicopter Rescue
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.
Cruise ship helicopter rescue. 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 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. 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.
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. 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. 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.
It was frightening at first. Helicopters rescue Norway cruise ship passengers - YouTube. 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.
Coastguard Rescue 175 has been scrambled to assist the crew of the cruise ship Disney. Janet Jacob among the first group. Passengers rescued from the Viking Sky cruise ship are helped by emergency services in Hustadvika Norway Saturday March 23 2019.
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 helicopter rescue from Viking Sky was called off at mid-day on the 24th of March. Rescue workers off Norways western coast rushed to evacuate 1300 passengers and crew from the 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.
Helicopter nearly runs out of fuel airlifting sick Carnival Cruise passenger 75 miles to shore in nail-biting rescue. 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. Using its own engines the ship arrived in Molde at 1620 with 436 passengers and 458 crewmembers.
