Personal Injury Law

Sick woman airlifted from cruise liner Rhapsody of the Seas off Gold Coast

By Lipcon, Margulies & Alsina, P.A.

AN unwell 60-year-old woman has been winched by helicopter from a cruise ship off the Queensland coast.

The Sydney woman was aboard the Rhapsody of the Seas liner, which had departed Sydney and was 40 kilometres off the southern Gold Coast, when she began feeling unwell.

The RACQ CareFlight rescue helicopter was deployed to the cruise ship after receiving a call on Saturday afternoon.

A paramedic winched down onto the ship assessed the woman who was raised from the ship and flown to the Gold Coast airport.

She was taken by ambulance to the John Flynn Hospital in a stable condition.

CareFlight spokesman Brian Russell said the woman was "generally unwell" but further details about her illness were not immediately available.

Originally Posted at: www.news.com.au

Full post as published by Cruise Ship Law on March 26, 2011 (boomark / email).