Video 71 Year Old Man Aboard Cruise Ship Suffering Stroke Symptoms Medevaced 13 Miles To Shore
The passenger—who has not yet been named—was rescued on Wednesday morning from the Oosterdam, a Holland America Line ship that was en route to Yakutat, Alaska. A call for aid from the vessel’s crew members was first made at roughly 9 a.m., officials said. At the time of the call, the liner was approximately 13 miles off the entrance to Dry Bay in Alaska. The crew then altered course to close the distance with the agency’s rescue vehicle, which was an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter dispatched from U....