Man Airlifted from QM2

[cunarder]

Does anyone know more of the story? I saw on the news this morning that a man was airlifted by the CoastGuard due to internal bleeding.

 

Ed

 

QE2 - 12/98, 09/00, 09/01, 06/03

Explorer of the Seas - 01/02

Grand Princess - 12/02

Majesty of the Seas - 01/04

 

Next up:

Queen Mary 2 - 11/04

[cheshire]

With 2500 plus passengers onboard any ship there will come a time when despite the medical services avaialable onboard it is considered wise to move a passenger to land. The Coastguard and others practice this type of evacuation on a regular basis.

 

My father had an anuerism onboard a ship sailing to the Uk. Fortunately, they managed to get the ship in early and he was rushed to hospital where he recieved emergency treatment. He was finally discharged some 5 months later and resumed a normal life. His life was saved by the prompt actions of the Purser who recognised that there was a problem that needed immediate attention. The Doctor onboard considered that the risks of airlifting him to a hospital were not justified as the stress of the airlift would possibly cause the aneurism to go completely.

[afjag]

It was a member of the band:He had a bleeding ulser.Passengers were asked to donate blood.

[ver49]

Coast Guard Press Release

 

This is probably what you are refering to.

[ver49]

Coast Guard News Link

 

This link may work better. The Coast Guard news service usually has short press releases of many of their activities.

[Bill and Ray]

QM II? Even the Coast Guard doesn't know the name of the ship!

 

QV ??? 2007

QM2 Apr 2004

QM2 Jan 2004

QE2 Apr 2003

Triumph Oct 2002

QE2 Oct 2001

Norway Feb 2000

QE2 Jul 1999

QE2 Jan 1998

QE2 May 1997

[CruiseShelly]

Sunday night as our appetizers arrived for late seating, the Commodore came over the loud speaker saying we had a medical emergency and need the help of the passengers. They needed O negative blood donors for a critically ill patient.

 

Monday afternoon, a very large Coast Guard plane started circling the QM2 very veyr close, very scarey, and the Commodore came back on the intercom to announce they had decided to airlift the man -- a trumpet player in the Showroom band -- off the ship rather than risk waiting until we arrived in NYC the next morning. It appeared later when we saw the course map for the day, we had diverted towards Norfolk Virginia during Sunday night to be close enough for a helicopter to come from the mainland. Soon after the Coast Guard plane arrived, a helicopter arrived and airlifted him off Deck 13 (which they had evacuated).

 

At the "Farewell Show" on Monday night, they announced he was stable and doing better.

 

That only added to the excitement we had already had earlier in the voyage (fire in the Kitchen setting off the abandon ship alarms and causing many loos of panic in the passenger's eyes as we were all deciding if we should seek our life preservers).

[cunarder]

Thanks all for your input.

 

CruiseShelley - Sounds like you had an exciting trip. I hope ours in November has less of that kind of excitement.

 

Ed

[Suitecruiser31]

I was on this same voyage and it was quite an adventure. The emergency alarm sounding did cause quite a stur as we were all eating dinner. And then watching the Coast Guard Plane circle the ship and a few minutes later a helicopter came to pick up the injured crew member. It took a few attempts for the helicopter to hover correctly over the ship. There were serveral of us on the Observation Deck watching the procedure. It was quite exciting and everyone on the ship was very thankful the crew member was doing better and was stable. Apparently the night they asked for blood donations they had many passengers volunteer, which showed just how generous people on cruise ships are.

[Crouton]

QM2 will likely never be short of drama and history, will she?

 

Crouton

[apfra.]

Not Fair... On my 17-day cruise, nothing like this happened. I mean like the rough seas or any adventure. I was really hoping.