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.

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.

When a woman on a Holland America Line cruise ship was in medical distress on Friday, members of the U.S. Coast Guard sprang into action for a dramatic rescue. The incident took place at about 7:12 a.

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