By THE HONOLULU STAR-ADVERTISER Published: February 4, 2021 HONOLULU (Tribune News Service) An injured mariner aboard a cargo vessel 9 miles south of Honolulu was rescued by Coast Guard crews Wednesday and brought to Oahu. The 43-year-old man was reported to be in stable condition. A Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew flew the man back to the air station where an ambulance was waiting to take him to Straub Medical Center. At 4 a.m., Saturday, the captain of the Adonis, a 984-foot commercial cargo vessel, notified the Coast Guard that a crewmember had suffered a hand injury. The Coast Guard flight surgeon recommended a medevac fearing the man s injury could worsen if left untreated. The ship s crew was told to set course for Oahu, where Coast Guard crews would rendezvous upon arrival.
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A search involving U.S. Coast Guard, Navy and good samaritan vessels is continuing for 10 missing crew members of from an abandoned Taiwanese fishing vessel approximately 550 miles off the coast of Midway Island.
The search has been underway since December 31, 2020, after Rescue Coordination Center Taipei lost contact with 95-foot F/V Yong-Yu-Sing No. 18. An Air Station Barbers Point HC-130 aircrew later located the adrift Yong-Yu-Sing No. 18, Jan. 1, with a missing life raft and no signs of the 10 crewmembers.
An analysis of imagery has revealed there is damage to the ship and one of the vessel’s life rafts was missing, leaving searchers to believe that crew may have abandoned ship.
By WILLIAM COLE | The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Published: January 2, 2021 (Tribune News Service) Following the surprise removal of a Naval Air Station Barbers Point memorial in 2018 and a couple of failed efforts to relocate it, AMVETS Hawaii is again trying to rebuild the pole-mounted scale model P-3 Orion aircraft surrounded by a moss rock wall. A backlash in the military community particularly among the thousands of Navy veterans who served at the base followed its removal. The now-shuttered Barbers Point at one time was the largest naval air station in the Pacific, with 6, 500 military, family members and civilians. The crossroads of the Pacific had about six P-3 Orion sub-hunter squadrons and around 50 of the propeller aircraft.