{"id":279915,"date":"2018-07-13T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=279915"},"modified":"2018-07-13T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T20:00:09","slug":"coast-guard-medevacs-snorkeler-from-molokini-crater-off-maui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/coast-guard-medevacs-snorkeler-from-molokini-crater-off-maui\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard medevacs snorkeler from Molokini Crater off Maui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HONOLULU<\/strong>\u2014Coast Guard Station Maui crews evacuated a snorkeler requiring medical assistance near Molokini Crater, Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>A Station Maui 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew along with a paramedic from the American Medical Association Medic 15 rendered assistance. <\/p>\n<p>At 9:25 a.m. Station Maui watchstanders received a request from the master of the 53-foot passenger vessel Lani Kai for assistance regarding a 69-year-old man experiencing pain in both arms while snorkeling near Molokini Crater. <\/p>\n<p>Once on scene, the paramedic assessed the snorkeler\u2019s condition and recommended a medevac, which was concurred with by a Coast Guard duty flight surgeon.<\/p>\n<p>The patient was transferred to the RB-M and brought to awaiting emergency services on shore who transported him to Maui Memorial Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe work closely with our emergency service partners to get visitors and waterway users to a higher level of medical care as quickly as possible,\u201d said Petty Officer 2nd Class Grant Hadley, a boatswain\u2019s mate at the station.<\/p>\n<p>The weather at the time of the medevac was 2-foot seas with light and variable winds. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU\u2014Coast Guard Station Maui crews evacuated a snorkeler requiring medical assistance near Molokini Crater, Tuesday&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[21931,367,21932,11823],"class_list":["post-279915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-class-grant-hadley","tag-honolulu","tag-lani-kai","tag-molokini-crater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279915","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}