Passenger taken from cruise ship in Chesapeake Bay to Md. hospital

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A person was hospitalized after troopers say the individual was airlifted from a cruise ship in the Chesapeake Bay. 

Maryland State Police say on Thursday, around 9:45 PM, the United States Coast Guard was notified by Royal Caribbean Cruise Line that a passenger required immediate medical evacuation on its Grandeur of the Seas ship. Troopers say MSP Trooper 7  was dispatched at the request of the U.S. Coast Guard regarding an airlift extraction of the passenger. 

Authorities says the ship was in the Chesapeake Bay, about 10 miles southwest of Tangier Island and was traveling at approximately 6 knots. According to the report, rescue crews were able to get an EMT aboard the ship to see about the sick passenger, and they determined that the patient in critical/life-threatening condition needed to be taken to a nearby hospital.

The patient was taken to a hospital in Southern Maryland