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. Odd Roar LangeEPA-EFE Later reports emerged that a cargo ship with nine crew. Passengers rescued by helicopter from the cruise ship Viking Sky are seen in Hustadvika Norway on Saturday. It was frightening at first.

Norways Joint Rescue Coordination Center stepped up sending five helicopters in. 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 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.

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. Passengers are helped from a rescue helicopter in Fraena Norway Sunday March 24 2019 after being rescued from the Viking Sky cruise ship. And when the general alarm sounded it became VERY real she wrote in a text.

OSLO Rescue helicopters evacuated more than 150 people from a luxury cruise ship which suffered engine failure on. 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. The Viking Sky issued a mayday call as bad weather hit and engine problems caused it to start.

Alaska-bound cruise ships are banned from BC. 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. A rescue operation involving the Coastguard Rescue Helicopter is underway in the Solent this evening Friday.

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. Ports but still sail in Canadian waters. Passengers rescued from the Viking Sky cruise ship are helped by emergency services in Hustadvika Norway Saturday March 23 2019.