Heavy Waves Send 19 Overboard On Hospital Ship

Nineteen people have been knocked overboard from a Navy hospital ship operating near Haiti, reports CBS News.

On Monday night, heavy swells hit USNS Comfort, sending 12 military personnel and seven civilians overboard.

All 19 were successfully rescued by a small boat shortly after, although two were injured in the process.

The incident caused the ship to temporarily halt medical services.

The Comfort has been deployed to Haiti as part of a U.S. humanitarian mission to help deal with the nation’s health crisis, which includes a recent cholera outbreak that infected more than 14,000 people.