Cruise Ship Helicopter Rescue

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.

Cruise ship helicopter rescue. The helicopter rescue from Viking Sky was called off at mid-day on the 24th of March. It was frightening at first. OSLO Rescue helicopters evacuated more than 150 people from a luxury cruise ship which suffered engine failure on.

Helicopters rescue Norway cruise ship passengers - YouTube. Norways Joint Rescue Coordination Center stepped up sending five helicopters in. Canadian Air Force helicopter rescues sick passenger from cruise ship off Vancouver Island.

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. 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.

Last night October 8 2019 the Coast Guard of New Zealand dispatched a helicopter to the Celebrity Solstice to medevac a crew member who needed to be hospitalized. Janet Jacob among the first group. Passengers rescued by helicopter from the cruise ship Viking Sky are seen in Hustadvika Norway on Saturday.

Passengers are helped from a rescue helicopter in Fraena Norway Sunday March 24 2019 after being rescued from the Viking Sky cruise 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 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.

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. Their quick action even on New Years Day is reassuring to Singaporeans as that means we can be speedily rescued in the event of an emergency 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Smaller rescue helicopters are the only ones that will be light enough and small enough to be able to land on the ship providing it is close enough.