The U.S. Coast Guard on Friday night evacuated a 75-year-old woman who became sick while on the cruise ship Oosterdam about 180 miles southwest of San Diego.
The woman and the ship's nurse were airlifted by MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from the Oosterdam to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla.
The helicopter was dispatched from the Coast Guard's San Diego station. Also
christian louboutin chaussures pas cher, an HC-130 Hercules aircraft from the Coast Guard station in Sacramento supported the evacuation by locating the ship.
The evacuation came the same week the Coast Guard assisted in bringing the disabled cruise ship Carnival Splendor into San Diego.
--Tony Perry in San Diego