Ambulances meeting ships on 12/20 -anyone know why?

[MisterBill99]

We were in St. Martin on Silhouette on Tuesday 12/20. When we arrived, there were two ambulances on the pier with NCL Epic and Disney Magic. Does anyone know what happened? I asked in the Epic roll call thread and got no reply and the Magic thread isn't active. There was also police activity that may have been related to Silhouette.

[gtaylor]

I subscribe to the local paper, The Daily Herald, and they didn't report anything about such an incident.

 

gary

[MisterBill99]

Interesting.. I'm pretty sure I have photos of the ambulances if you'd like to see. Would the local paper usually cover problems on arriving cruise ships?

[gtaylor]

Would the paper cover it?

 

Well, on the 22nd there was a Front Page story with large photo covering this incident:

 

Jet ski capsizes, woman rescued by security guard

 

GREAT BAY--A Sheriff security

guard helped to save a young

woman who fell off a jet ski watercraft

Wednesday afternoon.

 

The young woman was riding

in Great Bay with her stepfather

when the jet ski capsized.

Wednesday’s wind caused the

water to be extra rough.

 

<snip>

 

Police arrived on the scene to

take a statement from the pair.

Both were clearly shaken, but

needed no special medical attention.

No ambulance was seen at

the scene.

 

gary

[MisterBill99]

Would the paper cover it?

 

Well, on the 22nd there was a Front Page story with large photo covering this incident:

 

Jet ski capsizes, woman rescued by security guard

Yeah but that was somethng that actually happened in SXM. In this case, it was something that happened en route. Much less worthy of coverage, unless it was something really interesting.

 

Someone posted this to the Epic board for that cruise, where I had also posted:

 

I know we had a medical issue and someone was going to get treated and sent home. I don't know the details. I just happed to be by guest services as they were making plans to fly home.