Updated at 8:07 p.m., Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Fishermen, adrift for days, get help
Advertiser Staff
The Coast Guard has responded to a disabled 65-foot fishing boat with four to five crew members on board that apparently had been adrift for several days.The fishing vessel was about 80 miles east of O'ahu this morning.
The Coast Guard was contacted yesterday by a worried wife of a crewman who hadn't heard from her husband for a couple of days.
According to Coast Guard public affairs spokesman Petty Officer Michael De Nyse, the cutter Kittiwake and a C-130 Hercules plane from Air Station Barbers Point responded to the fishing ship Ulheelani.
De Nyse said the cutter reached the boat at around 7 this evening and would either repair the vessel's fuel leak or tow the boat back to Honolulu. He said no injuries to the crew of the Ulheelani had been reported.
