Anyone got more info. on the following...
Via KITV News Website:
Off Hanauma Bay a one-man canoe apparently came apart. Visitors watching the waves noticed and called for help.
The Honolulu Fire Department sent search and rescue teams, boats and a jet ski. HFD's helicopter flew overhead. The current and strong wind blew the paddlers around the corner to Portlock.
"It's pretty rough, I guess. If you think you're experienced enough, you're going to go anyway. What helped bring them up was the wind and current pushing them this way," HFD Capt. G.M. Lum said.
A fisherman saw the distressed paddlers coming ashore.
"He asked me to call 911. He said one of this friend's boats broke outside of Hanauma bay 300-400 yards outside the cliffs," Robert Hu said.
The paddlers managed to climb ashore at the area in Portlock known as China Walls. They were OK, but one of the canoes did not make it.
Submitted by iakoMan on Mon, 02/19/2007 - 11:48pm
glad to hear they got out okay. what kind of canoe was it?
#1 Tue, 02/20/2007 - 8:10pm
I heard it was a polaris yellow deck/white hull. Iakos and ama twisted and broke off.
#2 Tue, 02/20/2007 - 9:24pm