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Updated at 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Ill cruise passenger rescued off Oahu

Advertiser Staff

A Coast Guard helicopter crew this morning medevaced a 59-year-old man who had an apparent heart attack while aboard a cruise ship 60 miles east of O'ahu.

A crewmember aboard the Royal Caribbean cruise ship "Serenade of the Seas" contacted the Coast Guard Monday evening for assistance. Crewmembers from Air Station Barbers Point transported the man to The Queens Medical Center for treatment.