CANADIAN AIRCREW MEDEVACS WOMAN FROM NORWEGIAN MAJESTY

BOSTON - A Canadian aircrew assisting Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod
medically evacuated a 76-year-old woman from the cruise ship Norwegian
Majesty by CH-146 Griffon helicopter, 55 nautical miles southeast of
Nantucket, Mass., 1:35 p.m., today.

The Coast Guard received a call from the Norwegian Majesty, which is en
route to Boston from Bermuda, via satellite cellular phone requesting a
medevac of a woman with abdominal distress to Cape Cod Hospital located in
Hyannis, Mass.   

The Griffon will transport the woman to Hyannis airport, where an awaiting
ambulance will take her to Cape Cod Hospital. The Griffon is on schedule to
land at the airport around 3:15 p.m.

Canadian aircrews and two Griffon helicopters have been assigned to Air
Station Cape Cod for nearly a week to assist while Coast Guard aircraft and
air station personnel continue to be deployed to the Gulf Coast region.