Posted at 11:34 a.m., Monday, April 14, 2003
Search continues for two swept over falls
By Mike Gordon
Advertiser Staff Writer
Divers and snorklers yesterday searched several of the pools along 'Ohe'o Stream near the 184-foot Makahiku Falls in the national park but found no sign of Kevin Brown, a 39-year-old Louisville, Ky., schoolteacher, or his 8-year-old daughter, said Ranger Sharon Ringsven, park spokeswoman.
Both were swept over the falls Thursday afternoon in a flash flood.
Water levels in the pools were low enough this morning that rangers planned to snorkel the ones that were not searched yesterday, Ringsven said. If rangers fail to find them in the remaining pools, the search will be called off, she said.
Rangers will check the area once a day for a week, however. "If they are not found in any of these pools, more than likely they were swept out into the ocean with the initial flood," Ringsven said.
