Man Airlifted off Disney Magic

[Dug720]

It's sounds crazy that a 29 year old male can break 2 legs and a have a hip injury inside a room. I don't buy it. I am thinking something happened somewhere else and somehow he made it back to his room. Especially if alcohol is involved he could have struggled back or had assistance. IMHO

There is a bone thing that can go undetected until the moment when the hip socket basically shatters. I know someone who was a competitive swimmer and never showed any signs of hip/leg/bone problems (I'm talking college-age here) and one day she got out of the pool and was walking on the deck and just went down. Didn't trip and fall or anything - her hip socket basically exploded.

So it's rare, but it could happen - and depending on how he landed or what he landed on, legs could be affected also.

 

[Justacruiser]

OK, so the person COULD have had a bone thing, that somehow fell inside the room or outside of the room (anywhere), fell just right as to break his lower extremities at 2am while walking. And alcohol might nor have been involved.

 

[DCL4LIFE]

Or it's possible that you were too involved in your own vacation to pay attention to what other people were doing. (A good thing IMHO.)

I don't think so; I'm usually very aware of what's going on around the ship. I almost always watch the lifeboat drills they do; listen to the crew announcements; etc. The entire concept of operating a ship fascinates me, and one of the reasons I like cruising so much is witnessing how the crew work.

I NEVER miss an opportunity to watch a docking or sail away. I'll miss a show or dinner if I have to. So I noticed when we went to Nassau at 3am and went up on deck to watch the person unloaded to the ambulance.

I've been on two cruises where we picked up people from boats that were adrift, and I literally left my table (and fiancée) at Palo brunch to go watch the process.

It was just surprising to read about 5, presumably separate, air evacuations just on Page 2 alone.

 

[MillauFr]

I don't think so; I'm usually very aware of what's going on around the ship.

I think Dug meant that you couldn't be monitoring what a particular passenger was doing on the ship unless they were in your eyesight.

 

[DCL4LIFE]

I think Dug meant that you couldn't be monitoring what a particular passenger was doing on the ship unless they were in your eyesight.

I guess I'm not sure I follow. When I originally posted that I was surprised at the amount of evacuations I was reading about, I meant true evacuations of a passenger, via either an airlift or a specific stop at a port for the sole purpose of getting that person off. And as I mentioned, I saw 5 airlifts mentioned just on page 2. That's all. I know sick/injured passengers can possibly disembark at any scheduled port for medical care, and no one except their party would really know.

But as someone else posted, you'd have to be completely oblivious I feel to miss an air evacuation. All I was saying was that in 23 cruises I've never seen one, and was just surprised that someone had taken 12 cruises and seen 2. That's all.

 

[Uncleromulus]

I guess a valid point is that medical emergencies/evacuations are rather uncommon-- if not rare--considering the # of passengers on board the cruise ships.

What happened to this fellow is all conjecture until (or if) someone finds out what REALLY happened.

As for insurance---simply a personal decision.

 

[BuzzLightyearInTampa]

I guess I'm not sure I follow. When I originally posted that I was surprised at the amount of evacuations I was reading about, I meant true evacuations of a passenger, via either an airlift or a specific stop at a port for the sole purpose of getting that person off. And as I mentioned, I saw 5 airlifts mentioned just on page 2. That's all. I know sick/injured passengers can possibly disembark at any scheduled port for medical care, and no one except their party would really know.

But as someone else posted, you'd have to be completely oblivious I feel to miss an air evacuation. All I was saying was that in 23 cruises I've never seen one, and was just surprised that someone had taken 12 cruises and seen 2. That's all.

Or a stop at some place like Grand Turk or San Salvador Island, especially during the day. But on our Fantasy cruise, a CM told me they stopped in the middle of the first night to evacuate someone off the ship and I (and probably most others on board) had no clue it happened.

BTW, the helipad at Castaway Cay is basically right next to where the ship docks, so we stood on deck 4 and watched the whole process of a US Coast Guard helicopter evacuating someone.

 

[DCL4LIFE]

Or a stop at some place like Grand Turk or San Salvador Island, especially during the day. But on our Fantasy cruise, a CM told me they stopped in the middle of the first night to evacuate someone off the ship and I (and probably most others on board) had no clue it happened.

BTW, the helipad at Castaway Cay is basically right next to where the ship docks, so we stood on deck 4 and watched the whole process of a US Coast Guard helicopter evacuating someone.

Yes I also watched our "rescue" of a fishing boat crew from deck 4 and it was really fascinating. Everyone applauded the crew when they got back.

I usually keep the stateroom TV on the map channel whenever we are in the room and during the one cruise where we went to Nassau in the middle of the night, the diversion was tracked on the map, so I suppose that'd be one way to know a cruise had diverted even if you hadn't felt it.

 

[phinz]

Or a stop at some place like Grand Turk or San Salvador Island, especially during the day. But on our Fantasy cruise, a CM told me they stopped in the middle of the first night to evacuate someone off the ship and I (and probably most others on board) had no clue it happened.

I think you were on the same cruise as we were for this. I was in Remy when I felt the change in vibration from the engines and things started rattling. I asked the server and he told me it sounded like the ship was turning, which he said wasn't supposed to happen. Concierge confirmed for me that night that it was a medical emergency they were diverting for.