A cruise ship headed for Bermuda played the good Samaritan by offering assistance to a stranded vessel on the weekend.

The Empress of the Seas, departing from Philadelphia, was 200 miles east of Cape Henry, Virginia, exactly halfway to Bermuda, when a boat came into sight around 10.30 a.m. on Sunday morning.

The vessel, Cindy, had just one person on board who refused assistance.

The man was headed to the Azores and had nothing on board to alert anyone that he was in danger.

The cruiseship put an alert on the boat just in case he ran into more trouble and continued to Bermuda early that afternoon.