Coast Guard Medevacs Woman From Cruise Ship Off Maryland Coast
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- The Coast Guard medevaced a woman from a cruise ship that was off the coast of Maryland on Sunday.
The 71-year-old woman was suffering a possible cardiac event on the cruise ship Carnival Pride, when a crewmember contacted watchstanders at the Coast Guard just before 3:45 a.m.
The cruise ship was 8 miles off Point Lookout, Maryland, and a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium search and rescue crew took the woman to a hospital in Leonardtown.
The woman's condition has not been released.
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