The U.S. Coast Guard posted a video online of a medivac rescue near Port Angeles involving a cruise ship that had just left Victoria Thursday night.
Dramatic coast guard footage shows the hoist of a 67-year-old woman, who had symptoms of a heart attack, off the Ovation of the Seas, 22 kilometres west of Port Angeles.
The ship left Victoria harbour for Seattle at 6 p.m.
#USCG video from Thursday night medevac of woman off of the cruise ship Ovation of the Seas. pic.twitter.com/Ewn6noc5AV
— USCGPacificNorthwest (@USCGPacificNW) July 27, 2019
The ship’s captain called about the medical emergency two-and-a-half hours later and the coast guard aircrew arrived just after 9 p.m.
The patient was transferred to a waiting aircrew at a hospital in Port Angeles and then flown to Seattle for further care.
The coast guard did not provide an update on the condition of the woman.
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