SOS medical emergency aboard Titanic centenary cruise

Does the Merchant Vessel (MV) Balmoal not have a helipad? Could they not have airlifted him, for God's sake. You've got to be serious about voyages like this. You pays yer money and ye takes your chances. Never would have happened in the old days under Bligh on the Bounty. Geez! Passengers should be required to sign a disclaimer, or take a long walk on a short plank. Reckon they should have keel-hauled him, or buried 'em at sea.

Is this cruise not tempting fate? It makes me shudder.

The ship that found the Titantic the R/V Knorr left Woods Hole, Massachusetts yesterday at noon to continue scientific research in the North Atlantic....