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Date: 05/02/2025
Wednesday 29th January, 2:00 pm – RCC Bermuda is contacted by the local agent acting on behalf of the P&O passenger ship VENTURA. The ship on passage from Port Canaveral, Florida to the Azores has diverted to Bermuda to disembark a passenger who needs medical attention ashore. The ship is only a few hours from Bermuda when the request is made and details regarding the patient’s condition are passed to the hospital and Fire dispatch. Before arrival the ship requested a second patient was also taken ashore to hospital. Shortly after 4 pm both patients and members of the ships medical staff were inbound from the ship to Ordnance island onboard the pilot boat St David to rendezvous with a waiting ambulance.


Date: 20/01/2025
Monday 20th January 2025, 6:25pm – Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre was notified by Meyers Ship Agents, that the Maltese Registered 171,598grt Passenger Ship MSC MERAVIGLIA was diverting to Bermuda with an 84-year-old passenger who required shoreside medical assistance, after suffering from a head injury following a fall in his cabin. The cruise ship was on passage from St Johns in the US Virgin Islands, bound for New York, giving an ETA to the Deep Draft Position for Tuesday 21st January at 3pm, the vessel subsequently arrived and transferred the patient and ships medical staff safely to the Pilot/Rescue Boat St David and was subsequently transferred by waiting ambulance to King Edward VII Memorial, the MSC MERAVIGLIA then continued on passage to New York.