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Royal Caribbean passenger flown from Grandeur of the Seas to hospital

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23 Dec 2013

A woman was taken by helicopter from Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas due to being in "medical distress" according to the United States Coast Guard.

Star News Online reports the unidentified woman was taken to New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina at about 6:00am while off the coast of Florida early this morning.

They left the Coast Guard Air Station in Elizabeth City aboard an HC-130 Hercules aircraft and an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter, according to the commander center.

Coast Guard officials arrived at 6:20 a.m. and took the woman to the Wilmington hospital for medical attention. When they got to the ship it was about 225 miles southeast of the Bahamas.

The woman is in stable condition, but there is no word as to what her medical emergency was.

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