A Royal Caribbean International ship has made another dramatic rescue of sailors floating alongside their sinking vessels. One week after Radiance of the Seas saved three Canadian fishermen off the western coast of Canada, Nordic Empress conducted an emergency rescue in the Atlantic. Nordic Empress departed Hamilton, Bermuda, on Friday afternoon, June 20, for a return sailing to New York. At approximately 9 p.m., in 30-knot winds and nine-foot seas, the bridge officers saw two rescue flares shoot from the water into the sky ahead of them and to their port side. The ship immediately changed course and proceeded cautiously toward the source of the flares, not knowing who or what might be in the heavy seas.