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Press Release | Nov. 4, 2024

Coast Guard, partners searching for missing snorkeler off Kauai

Coast Guard District 14 External Affairs - Office: (808) 535-3230 / After Hours: (808) 265-7748

HONOLULU – The Coast Guard, Kauai Fire Department, and Kauai Ocean Safety Department are searching for a missing snorkeler off Kauai Sunday. 

Missing is a 59-year-old male snorkeler last seen wearing pinkish-red board shorts, a black snorkel with an orange tip, and black water shoes with no shirt. 

Coast Guard Sector Honolulu command center watchstanders received a report at approximately 12:15 p.m. from Kauai Fire Department dispatchers that a snorkeler had become separated from his group at about 11:45 a.m. off Anini Beach in Kalihiwai, Hawaii. 

Watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast and directed the launch of a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew from Coast Guard Station Kauai and an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point. 

Involved in the search are: 

  • Coast Guard Sector Honolulu 

  • Coast Guard Station Kauai 

  • Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point 

  • Kauai Fire Department 

  • Kauai Ocean Safety Department 

Anyone with information that may assist search efforts should contact the Coast Guard on VHF-FM channel 16 or call the Sector Honolulu command center at 808-842-2600. 

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