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Woman in Botched Sea Rescue Dies

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Grandmother, 73, dropped into frigid Arctic.

A 73-year-old grandmother who made headlines this week after rescue workers accidentally dropped her into the frigid Arctic Sea while trying to remove her from a cruise ship has died. Janet Richardson spent almost eight minutes in the cold water on Thursday, and was then air-lifted to a U.K. hospital. She passed away Thursday evening, hospital officials announced Saturday. “Unfortunately Janet died, peacefully… with her family and friends around her,” her husband said.

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