Summit to arrive early tonight

[dkjretired]

Summit will arrive early into Bayonne tonight due to a medical emergency. They made an announcement about an hour ago to notify us and ask for anyone with 0- blood if they could donate. I went down but could not donate due to some meds however there were loads of people who showed up, makes you feel good sometimes that there are some really good people out there.

[midwestchick]

Oh no. :( I pray everything goes we'll for the pax having problems. Yes, there are a lot of good people out there.

I watched as the Summit sailed out of Bermuda yesterday.

[Azulann]

Yes, the kindness of strangers is a wonder to behold. Thanks for sharing this post, dkjretired.

Hope the passenger in need get the medical attention they need.

[Lois R]

Hi Don:) hope the person will be ok and hope you and Jeanne had

a great cruise:D

[mking8288]

Oh, dear lord - prayers that patient in need is stablized until ship can dock later on & promptly transported to land facility for full scale care. Saw this on Tapatalk, tracking the ship on Marine Traffic site, she's moving at 21.5 knots but behind the NCL Breakaway doing 20.6 knots (both coming back from Bermuda) to NY - it's going to be a few more hours giving its present GPS coordinates. Both ships seemed to be running much faster than usual this evening rushing toward NY harbor.

 

Last week, the Dawn sailing out of Boston toward BDA had to turn around - same evening - to return to Boston, fog at night made it impractical to launch medi-evac by copter, etc. (patient also was in need of blood transfusion)

Edited June 7, 2015 by mking8288

[Cruising Is Bliss]

According to Marine Traffic the Summit docked half an hour ago but in New York instead of Bayonne. I hope the person who is sick or injured is going to be okay.

Edited June 7, 2015 by Cruising Is Bliss

[dkjretired]

We are docked in Bayonne, not New York got in about an hour early. We were moving during the night at a good clip.

[wwcruisers]

Wow, Don -- I hope that your passenger with the medical emergency is OK.

Did Breakaway come in early, with you?

Edited June 7, 2015 by wwcruisers

[PamJack]

I hope it's not too serious!

[mking8288]

BA's captain informed its pax that they would be arriving early on Sunday ahead of time - terminal in Manhattan is busy today, they're at the pier at 7:40 UTC (that's 3:40 EDT) If they cleared the ship as usual, assuming CBP is staffed at those hours - imagine Express Self Walkoff at 4:30 or even 5 AM, and the rest stumbling into the terminal to look for their luggage - before breakfast time on the ship. BA was running much faster than usual as it is usually a leisure run - Summit was really pushing it last night into this morning, trailing behind the BA by a good distance.

 

All in all, hope the patient onboard made it to land-based care available remaining in good hands for a full recovery.

[funinthesun86]

We were on the Summit and debarked at regular time this morning. Does anyone know how the passenger is doing?

[loribill]

We just disembarked from the Summit this morning and when we were crossing the gangway, the NJ coroners van was there loading in a body bag from a stretcher coming off the ship with a very distraught family by it's side. Someone on our bus said that they had medi-vaced the other person off the ship at 1:00am near to Cape May when it appeared the ship had slowed down it's speed but no one seemed to have heard a helicopter come to the ship. This person also told us that another person had passed away on board last night as he had seen the Coronoer's van too. Not sure what the actual information is but clearly someone had died aboard the ship last night. My friend had gone to volunteer to donate blood but also was turned away and she also said it was wonderful to see so many people willing to help a stranger. Anyone else out there have any more information about this?

[PamJack]

So tragic for that family.

[ghstudio]

We just disembarked from the Summit this morning and when we were crossing the gangway, the NJ coroners van was there loading in a body bag from a stretcher coming off the ship with a very distraught family by it's side. Someone on our bus said that they had medi-vaced the other person off the ship at 1:00am near to Cape May when it appeared the ship had slowed down it's speed but no one seemed to have heard a helicopter come to the ship. This person also told us that another person had passed away on board last night as he had seen the Coronoer's van too. Not sure what the actual information is but clearly someone had died aboard the ship last night. My friend had gone to volunteer to donate blood but also was turned away and she also said it was wonderful to see so many people willing to help a stranger. Anyone else out there have any more information about this?

 

Hopefully, the death had nothing to do with the person needing blood. It is not unusual to have a death on a cruise....in fact there is a web site on that topic with statistics. http://www.cruiseshipdeaths.com/Cruise_Ship_Death_Statistics/Cruise_Ship_Death_Statistics.html

Edited June 8, 2015 by ghstudio

[CathyCruises]

On the recent Silhouette TA, someone passed away in the Solarium. What a way to go!

[Cruise a holic]

On the recent Silhouette TA, someone passed away in the Solarium. What a way to go!

 

Unfortunately it happens! We were on a Princess cruise a few years ago from Bklyn to Canada and New England, and the captain announced we would be delayed in our scheduled departure as a passenger had passed away. Can happen anywhere at anytime!

[dkjretired]

Unfortunately it happens! We were on a Princess cruise a few years ago from Bklyn to Canada and New England, and the captain announced we would be delayed in our scheduled departure as a passenger had passed away. Can happen anywhere at anytime!

 

Yes, remember you are dealing with a small city on board a ship and on our particular cruise there were a lot of senior citizens.

[doublemm16]

I thought I heard a helicopter around 3:00am, but maybe it was earlier or maybe I was just imagining it.

 

We pulled into Bayonne around 6:30am, so while we did travel at increased speeds to return quickly for the critically ill passenger, it seems that we slowed down some time in the early morning hours.

[mking8288]

Thanks for that eyewitness update, RIP for the pax's final disembarkation after getting the time to visit beautiful Bermuda - death & dying is part of our aging process, one path that all of us will travel onward and if the pax passed on naturally, it was meant to be. Loved ones, family & friends will find closure and move on.

 

For privacy reasons, unless someone choose to share & inform us while they are griefing, we will unlikely learn more about the deceased or about the patient in need of urgent care.

 

Looked at the tracking history of the Summit for that 24 hour period in closer details, it seemed she did slow down from her 20+ knots speed to under 12 knots briefly, for maybe 30 minutes at most, around 4:45 AM local/EDT - as she was off Sandy Hook, NJ (formerly the lighthouse) and then resumed to faster speed of 16.5 knots after 5:15 AM local/EDT (9:15 UTC) easing into the lower bay / Long Branch, NJ for Bayonne, NJ pier Tracking history/data for the Summit is here

 

Perhaps, a copter did came out to did a transfer and perhaps not, the patient is/was certainly in good hands then and all along.