Saturday, April 13, 2013

Emergency on the Diamond Princess

Around 10 last night the Captain told us that one of the crew was very very ill and needed to be transported to Singapore.  The Singapore Air Force would be sending a helicopter and parts of decks 11 and 12 would need to be evacuated for safety reasons.  He said they would need to do a winch transfer.

Early in the night they had announced that someone needed an emergency transfusion of  blood type O.

The helicopter circled the ship multiple times.

We heard this morning that it was successful and the crew member was successfully removed.

Earlier the Captain told us they were having problems with one of the engines.  We will be late landing in Singapore.

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