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Posted on: Wednesday, June 2, 2004

Hokule'a also serves as emergency room

By Jan TenBruggencate
Advertiser Science Writer

The big event of the morning was Randy Kosaki's operation after he deeply cut the end of his index finger.

Four members of the crew gathered around serving as assistants to ship's doctor Cherie Shehata, and everyone, including Randy, cracking jokes the whole time.



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