Cruise ship stops for medical emergency

Published 1:30 am Sunday, October 2, 2016

PORT ANGELES — A cruise ship with a passenger capacity of 3,114 stopped briefly in Port Angeles Harbor for a medical emergency.

The Explorer of the Seas, owed by Royal Caribbean International, came into the harbor Friday night because a passenger was in medical distress, according to Bryant Kroh, firefighter/paramedic with the Port Angeles Fire Department.

Paramedics with the fire department, who received a call at 7:58 p.m., transported the passenger to Olympic Medical Center, he said.