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I've searched the forums but cannot locate anything on this topic.

It's rare, to be sure, but in the unlikely event that someone in my party should need to be airlifted from the ship in a medical emergency, is there an insurance product that includes this protection?

I have a multi-year Medjet policy but even this is limited to land based evacuation.

Don't want to be too much of a sissy about all of this stuff but it keeps the wife happy (I'll blame it on her!).

We will be on the Caribbean Princess in November.

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yes there is

First, look at your cruise lines insurance policy and read it.

Then look at you current home health insurance and read it.

Then look at you credit card coverage and read it.

Then look at http://www.tripinsurancestore.com and read through it.

Then look at http://www.insuremytrip.com and read through their various offers.

 

If that fails, try http://www.google.com

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My first reaction is that if you have to be air lifted off the ship, it would be done by the Coast Guard or some military branch rather than a private company. In that case, there would be no charge.

 

This happened on a ship I was on several years ago. I think the young lady even got a free appendectomy on the naval vessel where they evacuated her.

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My first reaction is that if you have to be air lifted off the ship, it would be done by the Coast Guard or some military branch rather than a private company. In that case, there would be no charge.

 

This happened on a ship I was on several years ago. I think the young lady even got a free appendectomy on the naval vessel where they evacuated her.

 

Very, very interesting. Part of me wondered about the utility of getting a helicopter down onto a ship.

What you suggest seems plausible in waters near the US but I’m still wondering about a cruise like we are on that sails down to South America.

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I don’t have any way of knowing for sure, but I’m still betting that they would call in the equivalent of the Coast Guard or military of the nearest country. They train and are equipped for that sort of thing, and in the case of the Coast Guard, it is part of their mission to aid ships at sea.

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I don’t have any way of knowing for sure, but I’m still betting that they would call in the military of the nearest country. They train and are equipped for that sort of thing, and in the case of their equivalent of the Coast Guard, it is part of their mission to aid ships at sea.

 

In March, when we were on Hurtigruten off the coast of Northern Norway, there was a "practice" medivac.

 

The helo came up from behind the ship (no idea if that was simply because that's where they were based), and then hovered just off the back.

 

Then it moved forward to be right over the back of the top, open, deck

 

They lowered some stuff and some people, and flew off.

The people arranged the equipment, and the "patient" was put in a sort of half barrel (sorry, NOT a good description), all belted in, and someone else was to be the "escort".

 

Then the helo returned, and lowered some lines again.

Everything got all hooked up, and then they lifted first the "patient", and then the "escort". Then they closed the doors, and flew off.

 

Note: The wind forces from those propellers are *fearful*.

I was on the aft balcony as they flew up, and heard lots of noise getting louder and louder, and then saw the helo approaching.

 

Being a curious nutcase, I stood there and watched as it continued to approach. Keep in mind that at that point I had no idea what was about to happen.

When they hovered just behind the ship, it was incredibly noisy, but only somewhat windy.

 

THEN... they moved forward, and were just off to the side of me.

And WHOOOMPF!

I could barely stand up. Worse, our balcony door opened outward.

But I was grabbing that handle as hard as I could!

It took every bit of strength that I had, and then some, to get that door slightly open, and then I sort of slithered through, squeezing myself into the opening.

(My flash of a Plan B was to just lie flat on the deck, up against the interior wall...)

I later noticed the balcony furniture was overturned and against the far wall.

 

So I rushed up one deck to see more.

And of course, the passengers were kept quite some distance away.

 

Where is the "Head Smacked Upside" emoticon!??

 

GC

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