An 84-year-old German man was airlifted off the cruise ship Mein Schiff 3 after suffering a serious heart attack while sailing in the middle of the Atlantic.

The rescue unfolded on April 20, 2025, when the cruise ship was about 180 nautical miles (roughly 315 kilometers) northeast of São Miguel Island in the Azores. The call for help came in around 11:30 a.m., and the Portuguese Navy’s Ponta Delgada Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC Delgada) sprang into action.

A cruise aboard the Hanseatic Spirit took an unexpected turn when the ship became trapped in thick sea ice off the coast of Kemi, Finland. With more than 200 passengers on board, the vessel operated by Hapag-Lloyd Cruises required assistance from icebreakers to continue its journey.

A medical emergency has prompted the cruise ship Sun Princess, to head at full speed towards Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands.

The ship’s captain made an announcement informing guests and crew that a passenger required urgent medical attention on land. Given the ship’s current location in the mid-Atlantic, air rescue operations are not feasible, making it necessary for the vessel to expedite its journey.

Spain maritime rescue services evacuated a British passenger who fell ill aboard the cruise ship Sky Princess as it sailed off the country’s northern coast.

The passenger, suffering from a heart condition, was airlifted Wednesday evening by a rescue helicopter as the vessel traveled five nautical miles southwest of Cape Silleiro in the Galicia region.
Authorities confirmed the woman was transported to Álvaro Cunqueiro Hospital in Vigo for urgent medical care. No further details were released about her condition.

German and Colombian media report that an incident involving 38 tourists occurred off the coast of Colombia when an excursion boat capsized near the Barú Peninsula. The passengers, 36 German tourists and 2 Austrians, had boarded the excursion boat at the port of Cartagena after arriving on the cruise ship AIDAbella.

A maritime rescue was performed 100 miles off the coast of Tenerife on Sunday March 23,  as the Helimer 202 helicopter successfully evacuated a crew member from the luxury cruise ship Seabourn Venture.

The emergency operation was coordinated by the Maritime Rescue Centre in Tenerife, which swiftly mobilized resources after receiving an alert from the vessel. Responding to the distress call, the rescue team was deployed to conduct an urgent medical evacuation.

New Caledonian rescue services carried out a series of four medical evacuations from Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas within a 24-hour period, an unusual and nearly unprecedented sequence of events.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued a 9-year-old girl from a cruise ship 170 miles offshore of Galveston, Texas, on Monday, officials confirmed.

According to U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Houston, the crew responded to a medical emergency aboard the vessel, successfully airlifting the child to UTMB Health - University of Texas Hospital in Galveston for further treatment.
The girl was reported to be in stable condition, though no further details have been released regarding the nature of her medical emergency.

The crew of the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Brilliance of the Seas rescued 11 migrants adrift in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday after spotting their vessel in distress. The refugees, found floating between Cuba and Mexico, were brought aboard the cruise ship, where they received medical care, food, water, and warm clothing.

Three Australian passengers aboard Quantum of the Seas were medically evacuated in two separate rescue operations during the ship’s eight-day South Pacific cruise. The maritime gendarmerie patrol boat operated by the Armed Forces in New Caledonia, coordinated the evacuations on Wednesday, February 19, transferring all three individuals to Médipôle for urgent medical care.