On Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020, at about 6:46pm,\u00a0 the CNMI Department of Public Safety received a call regarding an overturned vessel near the waters of Ma\u00f1agaha Island. The caller stated that the two occupants onboard had been assisted by a nearby vessel and were being brought into the Smiling Cove Marina. The DPS jetboat and the Zodiac 1 rescue boat were launched to respond to the overturned vessel.<\/p>\n
At about 6:55pm, an attempt to turn the vessel upright was made but did not succeed. By 7:20pm, the jetboat and the Zodiac 1 began towing the vessel into Smiling Cove. At about 7:50pm, both rescue boats arrived with the overturned vessel.<\/p>\n
Police learned that the vessel\u2019s two occupants were leaving Ma\u00f1agaha with friends on three separate boats. As they were leaving the island, the vessel caught a wake and before the operator was able to shift the boat into neutral, the boat\u2019s bow went underwater before overturning. They were picked up by a nearby boat and were brought into the Smiling Cove as they called for police assistance.<\/p>\n
DPS encourages boaters to call into\u00a0Channel 16\u00a0on your VHF radio when you need help, or if you would like to report a distressed vessel. If you would like to report a crime or an emergency call\u00a0911\u00a0anytime. (PR<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020, at about 6:46pm,\u00a0 the CNMI Department of Public Safety received…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":333650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-333613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-dps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333613","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=333613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}