{"id":355309,"date":"2021-11-08T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=355309"},"modified":"2021-11-08T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T20:00:06","slug":"355309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/355309\/","title":{"rendered":"Skiff with 6 persons on board missing off FSM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SANTA RITA, Guam<\/strong>\u2014The U.S. Coast Guard, Federated States of Micronesia first responders, and good Samaritans are searching for an overdue 24-foot skiff with six people aboard off Lukunor Atoll in Chuuk State, Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>An Air Station Barbers Point HC-130 Hercules aircrew has been deployed to the search area while the Coast Guard Cutters <em>Frederick Hatch<\/em> and <em>Sequoia<\/em> are en route to assist.<\/p>\n<p>At 9:17am last Thursday, Coast Guard Forces Micronesia-Sector Guam watchstanders received a report from the Mayor\u2019s office on Oniop Atoll in Chuuk stating the 24-foot skiff was overdue.<\/p>\n<p>The skiff had departed Moch Island, Satawan Atoll, en route to Oniop Atoll at 4pm, Wednesday, and at 6:52pm a phone call was received on Oniop Atoll from one of the skiff\u2019s passengers stating they had run out of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>FSM authorities deployed the crew of the FSS <em>Micronesia<\/em> in response while good Samaritans also joined in the search.<\/p>\n<p>Coast Guard Forces Micronesia-Sector Guam watchstanders began coordinating with FSM authorities to formulate search plans while deploying Coast Guard assets to assist.<\/p>\n<p>Involved or en route to the search so far are the crew of the FSS <em>Micronesia<\/em>; an Air Station Barbers Point HC-130 Hercules aircrew; the crew of the Coast Guard cutter <em>Frederick Hatch<\/em>; the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Sequoia; Coast Guard Forces Micronesia-Sector Guam watchstanders; Coast Guard Joint Rescue Coordination Center watchstanders; a Caroline Islands Air aircrew; and local good Samaritans. <em>(PR)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA RITA, Guam\u2014The U.S. Coast Guard, Federated States of Micronesia first responders, and good Samaritans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":347961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-355309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355309","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=355309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}