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Cruise ship wake caused sinking of boat
Two people and a dog were rescued from a buoy after their boat hit a cruise ship’s wake and sank on the evening of Jan. 4, 2025 The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO). and Coast Guard soon found the trio clinging to the buoy, which they swam to after their boat hit the wake near Gadsden Point. The Tampa Bay Harbor pilots Michael Stutevoss and Dan Hemmer were piloting a Royal Caribbean cruise ship when they heard people had entered the water and contacted the Coast Guard. They also contacted fellow pilot Matthew Riley, who helped look for the boaters. The incident occurred as the 'Enchantment of the Seas' and the 'Radiance of the Seas' were departing Port Tampa Bay. Guests on one ship spotted the stranded boaters and alerted the crew. The two people pulled from the buoy were subsequently transported to Tampa General Hospital. It is unclear which of the cruise ships was involved in creating the wake that apparently caused the smaller boat to sink. Report with photo and video: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/2-people-dog-rescued-fla-205618436.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QEUvZilMTM&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestreet.com%2F
Medevac off Anna Maria Island
On Dec 14, 2024, a Coast Guard unit was requested for assistance on the 'Radiance of the Seas', which had just departed from Tampa, Florida, on a 7-night Western Caribbean cruise. The ship was 13 miles west of Anna Maria Island when a female passenger, accompanied by her mother & father, needed to be medevaced. The Coast Guard deployed a patrol boat, which embarked the three, and the patient was transferred to awaiting EMS at the Station Cortez. Following the evacuation, the ship resumed her sailing towards the Western Caribbean. Report with photos: https://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/2024/12/16/what-happens-in-cruise-ship-medical-emergency-coast-guard
More than 180 people suffered from gastrointestinal outbreak
More than 180 people got sick in a gastrointestinal outbreak during a cruise of the 'Radiance of the Seas', that ended on Sep 27, 2024. Among 2,172 passengers on the ship, 180 reported being ill along with three crew members, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Their main symptoms were abdominal cramps, diarrhea, headache and muscle aches. The health agency listed the causative agent as unknown. The ship was on an Alaska cruise at the time. The sailing left from Vancouver, Canada, on Sep 20. The ship also made announcements about the outbreak and encouraged “good hand hygiene” and case reporting, among other steps. The CDC has logged 10 outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness on cruises that met its threshold for public notification in 2024. Norovirus was listed as the causative agent in every instance but three.
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