Coast Guard medevacs woman, baby

SAN DIEGO – The Coast Guard medically evacuated a woman and her new-born baby from a cruise ship just south of San Diego Thursday afternoon.

The Joint Harbor Operations Center (JHOC) received a call from the cruise ship Carnival Paradise at 10:40 a.m., requesting a medical evacuation of the woman and her baby for any medical attention the two may need.

Coast Guard Sector San Diego launched a 41-foot motor life boat with a Coast Guard doctor aboard, and met the cruise ship just south of the entrance to San Diego Harbor at about 1:00 p.m., to take a 30-year-old woman, her baby, and her mother off of the ship. The trio was then transported to Shelter Island where they were transported by paramedics to Kaiser Zion Hospital.

For photos of the medevac, follow the links below:

http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=888271

http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=888265

http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=888268

For video of the medevac, follow the link below:

http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=888396

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