Cruise Ship Helicopter Rescue

Helicopter rescues are regularly used to evacuate cruise ship passengers that fall ill given the speed required to reach vessels that may be far out to sea.

Cruise ship helicopter rescue. 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. 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. 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.

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. Using its own engines the ship arrived in Molde at 1620 with 436 passengers and 458 crewmembers. 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. 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. Ports but still sail in Canadian waters.

By Jim Walker on October 9 2019. 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. And when the general alarm sounded it became VERY real she wrote in a text.

A rescue operation involving the Coastguard Rescue Helicopter is underway in the Solent this evening Friday. Norway cruise passengers rescued by helicopter after ships engine fails. In all 479 passengers many of them elderly and three seriously injured had been airlifted off the ship one-by-one in rough weather by a relay of 6 helicopters making this one of the most remarkable helicopter.

The Viking Sky issued a mayday call as bad weather hit and engine problems caused it to start. 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 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.