A woman is airlifted off a cruise ship. The U.S. Coast Guard was called to rescue the 66-year-old believed to be having a stroke. The Holland America Koningsdam was 280 miles south of the U.S. and Mexico at the time.

Coast Guard members from two California stations medically evacuated a woman from a cruise ship on Friday, the Coast Guard said in a news release. A crew member on the Holland America Line's Koningsdam notified the Coast Guard at 7:12 a.

The Coast Guard evacuated an ailing passenger from Celebrity Apex on December 2, 2024, while the vessel was about 130 miles from Puerto Rico.

The U.S. Coast Guard airlifted a woman showing stroke symptoms from a cruise ship off California, coordinating a medevac 280 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico boundary.

The U.S. Coast Guard successfully conducted a medical evacuation of a 66-year-old woman from a Holland America Line cruise ship, about 280 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico maritime boundary on Friday morning.

A passenger was medically evacuated from a cruise ship Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. According to officials, the passenger was a 64-year-old American woman who was experiencing an unspecified abdominal medical emergency.

Americans call them pier runners – the cruise passengers racing to catch their cruise ship before it leaves without them, causing much merriment to those who have made it back on time. The perverse pleasure in watching other people’s misfortunes even led one passenger to spend valuable holiday time recording a minute-by-minute account of how two