Cruise Bruise Blog
April 7, 2009
April 7, 2009
Male Passenger Gets Airlift Off Carnival Fantasy To Alabama

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) medevaced  a male passenger aboard the Carnival Cruise Lines' Fantasy while she was in the Gulf Mexico last week returning to New Orleans from a voyage to the Western Caribbean.

The 63-year-old man was complaining of chest pains prior to being airlifted by an HH-60 USCG helicopter around 1331 hours on March 29, 2009 while Fantasy was 275 miles south of Dauphin Island, Alabama.

The passenger was taken to the University of South Alabama Medical Center.


April 7, 2009
Police Officer With High Morals Does 180 On Cruise Industry

A Cruise Bruise visitor working as a police officer says that he always thought it would be a good job after retiring from the police force, to work security aboard a cruise ship. But, now he has had second thoughts. Read his Letter To The Editor here.