{"id":190,"date":"2012-02-10T05:49:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T05:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saipantribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2012-02-10T05:49:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T05:49:22","slug":"18-year-old-fisherman-falls-overboard-near-a-samoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/18-year-old-fisherman-falls-overboard-near-a-samoa\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old fisherman falls overboard near A. Samoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HONOLULU<\/strong>-The Coast Guard is searching for an 18-year-old mariner who fell overboard 115 miles south of American Samoa on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Watchstanders in Joint Rescue Coordination Center Honolulu were notified Sunday that the master of the U.S.-flagged fishing vessel Siva Moana fell overboard while recovering fishing gear. He was not wearing a lifejacket.<\/p>\n<p>A Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion search plane was launched to begin a search as the Coast Guard prepared to launch. A Coast Guard aircrew piloting an HC-130 Hercules airplane from Air Station Barbers Point was launched Sunday to assist in the search. The Hercules aircrew relieved the crew of the P-3 and searched Sunday. The Hercules crew completed a search with no sign of the mariner before landing in Pago Pago, American Samoa. The aircrew plans to conduct another search Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Coast Guard watchstanders are utilizing the Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System to determine the search area with the highest probability for locating the missing mariner. SAROPS is a computer program that calculates environmental factors such as weather, wind speed and direction, current speed and direction, and the size of the search object. From that data, a search area is calculated. In addition to SAROPS, the Hercules aircrew deployed two self-locating data marker buoys, which also calculate and measure currents to better assist search and rescue teams in coordinating their search patterns.<\/p>\n<p>The Siva Moana remains in the area and will begin searching at first light.<\/p>\n<p>The HC-130 Hercules provides the Coast Guard the ability to conduct long-range searches across the Pacific. These aircraft, which have been in service for more than five decades across the Coast Guard, are being modernized to meet long-range maritime patrol requirements in areas such as the\u00a0Pacific, that cannot be patrolled efficiently by medium range surveillance aircraft or cutters. Six HC-130J models\u00a0have been added to the fleet and 16 HC-130H models are being modernized. These airplanes offer extended range, which allows aircrews to fly longer and farther. The upgraded models are a part of the Coast Guard&#8217;s ongoing acquisition program, an initiative to improve and sustain the service&#8217;s\u00a0aging fleet.\u00a0Air Station Barbers Point has four HC-130H models.\u00a0<strong><em>(U.S. Coast Guard)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU-The Coast Guard is searching for an 18-year-old mariner who fell overboard 115 miles south&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}