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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National

Westpac chopper winches sick man from cruise ship off Hunter coast

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A man is in John Hunter Hospital in a serious but stable condition after he was collected from a cruise ship off the coast northeast of the Hunter.

NSW Ambulance tasked the Westpac Rescue Helicopter to the vessel about 30km from Seal Rocks, in deteriorating weather, to help a man in his 60s who was suffering from a medical episode on Thursday night.

The man was winched from the cruise ship and taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition.

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