The US Coast Guard successfully evacuated a passenger by helicopter from Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas yesterday (June 12, 2009) while the ship was 40 miles off the coast of Florence, Oregon.
The Coast Guard said they responded to the call from the ship with a HH-65 helicopter dispatched from Air Station North Bend and picked up a 46 year-old-man who had a head injury sustained while he was playing basketball aboard the ship.
The man was taken to a local hospital in Eugene, Oregon. No other details are available at this time.
