Updated at 2:57 p.m., Monday, January 15, 2007
Search resumed for missing diver off Big Island
Advertiser Staff
The Coast Guard and Hawai'i County Fire Department rescuers resumed their search at first light this morning for a missing diver at Kahena Beach off the southwest corner of the Big Island.HCFD relayed a request for assistance to search for the missing diver at 7:30 last night. An HH-65 Dolphin helicopter and crew, from Barbers Point, searched an area approximately 15 square miles along the coast and offshore. HCFD crews are searching the shoreline and in-shore areas.
The 25-year-old male diver was reported missing to HCFD by his diving partner.
Coast Guard crews planned to launch the Coast Guard Cutter Kiska, homeported in Hilo, at first light.
