Woman Falls From QUEEN MARY In Long Beach

| December 6, 2011 | Shipping News | No Comments
QUEEN MARY, Long Beach sunset. Photo Martin Cox

A woman is reported in critical condition after falling some 75 feet from the Hotel Ship QUEEN MARY in Long Beach Harbour, CA.

Long Beach Fire Department firefighters received a call at about 8:35 p.m. Monday that a woman had fallen off the ship in to the water and a 40-year-old man jumped about 15 feet into the water to rescue her. The woman was taken to hospital in critical condition while man also was admitted to a hospital for treatment of hypothermia.

Two Long Beach police officers who also jumped in the water to help with the rescue were not injured.

The circumstances of the woman’s fall are not clear.

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MARTIN COX - Founder and publisher of MaritimeMatters, inspired by maritime culture and technology growing up in the port of Southampton. He works as a photographer in Los Angeles, and his works has been exhibited in LA, San Francisco, New York, London and Iceland. Martin is the co-writer of the book “Hollywood to Honolulu; the story of the Los Angeles Steamship Company” published by the Steam Ship Historical Society of America. The Los Angeles Maritime Museum has commissioned artworks and collected his photographs.

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