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Medevac off Barfleur

On March 5, 2024, at 2.30 a.m. the CROSS Jobourg was notfied after a crew member of the 'Cotentin' was complaining of pain off the coast of Barfleur. The CROSS then initiated a telephone conference with the maritime medical consultation center in Toulouse and the maritime medical coordination service in Le Havre. A medical evacuation was advocated. An H160 helicopter from the French Navy base in Maupertus with a medical team was deployed to the ferry and dropped off on board, where they performed first aid and conditioned the patient. He was then hoisted aboard the helicpoter and then dropped off at the Tourlaville rescue center. He was admitted a few minutes later to the emergency room of the Cotentin public hospital center Pasteur in Cherbourg. Le Cross hired the to carry out the evacuation. The medical team was airlifted aboard the ferry The patient was airlifted then dropped off by helicopter at the Tourlaville rescue center (delegated municipality of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin). He was admitted a few minutes later to the emergency room of the Cotentin public hospital center.

Medevac off Ushant

In the morning of Oct 31, 2011, a passenger had to be medeaved from the "Cotentin". At 6 a.m. the vessel was 28 km southwest of Ushant when the passenger complained of stomach pain. The Cross Corsen tasked a helicopter of the Navy, based in Lanvéoc-Poulmic, which took off at 6.54 a.m. which reached the ferry one hour later. The medical on board the ship decided the evacuation of the patient by air. He was winched up and delivered to the hospital Cavale Blanche, Brest at 8.10 a.m.