By EMS Staff
CARLISLE, England - Janet Richardson, the 73-year-old grandmother who made news after she was dropped into the freezing Arctic Ocean by paramdedics in late March, has died in an England hospital.
Richardson passed away Saturday at the Carlisle’s Cumberland Infirmary intensive care ward, where she was being treated for both her original illness, which involved internal bleeding, as well as complications caused by exposure to the freezing water, according to Sky News.
Mrs Richardson had been struck down with internal bleeding on the cruise ship Ocean countess during the voyage from Hull to Norway on a trip to see the Northern Lights. The captain of the Countess, operated by UK company Cruise and Maritime Voyages, had called for a rescue boat to take her to hospital.
As she was being lifted from the ship to the rescue boat, her stretcher slipped from the grasp of the rescuers and she fell into the water.
Marketing director of Cruise and Maritime Voyages Chris Coates told Sky News: “The directors and staff of Cruise and Maritime Voyages are all deeply shocked by the news received a short while ago that Mrs Janet Richardson has passed away. All our thoughts and prayers are with the Richardson Family at this sad time.”