{"id":280114,"date":"2018-07-17T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=280114"},"modified":"2018-07-17T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T20:00:13","slug":"us-coast-guard-suspends-search-for-possible-mariners-in-distress-near-kona-airport-big-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/us-coast-guard-suspends-search-for-possible-mariners-in-distress-near-kona-airport-big-island\/","title":{"rendered":"US Coast Guard suspends search for possible mariners in distress near Kona Airport, Big Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HONOLULU, Hawaii<\/strong>\u2014The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a possible boater in distress near the Kona Airport on the Big Island, Saturday night, pending further developments.<\/p>\n<p>After approximately eight hours of searching following a received mayday call, the case was suspended with no signs of boaters in distress and no reports of overdue swimmers or boaters in the area.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 12:30pm, Saturday, Sector Honolulu watchstanders received a mayday call over channel 16 and used the Rescue 21 system to track the location of the call to approximately 4 miles northwest of Kona Airport. <\/p>\n<p>The search was conducted by the Coast Guard, local emergency services and units involved in the Rim of the Pacific exercises off of Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Involved in the search were:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 An MH-Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The crew of the Coast Guard Gutter Joseph Gerzcak (WPC 1126)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A Hawaii County Fire Department Air 1 helicopter crew<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A U.S. Navy P-3 Orion aircrew<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The crew of the Royal Australian Navy HMAS Success (OR 304)<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the mayday call is asked to contact the Sector Honolulu command center at 808-842-2600. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU, Hawaii\u2014The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a possible boater in distress near&#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":[7808,21961,21962,12360],"class_list":["post-280114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-big-island","tag-kona-airport","tag-navy-p-3-orion","tag-sector-honolulu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280114","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=280114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}