Yacht-sized passenger boat runs aground in high surf off Hawaii beach
Honolulu (AP) -YAT-dimensional passenger boat, on the weekend from a Hawaii beach on a high surfing, the ship rides a series of powerful waves and appears almost next to it before resting.
KHON-TV reported that The activities occurred around 8 am on Saturday, when the swelling went to the peak and the tide hit the bottom.
US Coast Guard said in a statement, two crew members, Honolulu’s Kewalo Basin near the port of the Discovery 60 -meter (18 meters) ship, he said.
Coast Guard, Discovery’s reason for such a problem was under investigation and said there was no significant mechanical failure before the event. The ship’s operator reported that he had taken two big waves to his ass and broke his route. After the boat went to turmoil, he lost the push.
Coast Guard, the fuel of the boat, oil and batteries were removed and prevented the threat of pollution, he said. A company planned to pull the boat at the high tide in the afternoon on Sunday.
The backgrounds were caught in the video from various perspectives while the audience screamed, and the discovery lay a swelling next to the temporarily deserved itself in surfing.
41 -year -old Ramon Brockington, a surf filmmaker, said that he and others expect higher swelling for three days after watching air applications using data from ocean buoys. When the passenger boat entered the field of view and put a wave, the body was pulling the surfers in an area in the harbor, known as a panic point.
“They were basically trying to overcome this wave,” Associated Press said to Associated Press. “And the boat did not have enough power to prevent this wave. So, a wave gathered the boat and the captain basically lost the whole steering wheel.”
The strong surf pushed the ship to the water of about two meters deep or less. He had never seen such a thing.
“Basically, the boat surfing like a giant surfboard,” he said. “I have never seen a boat of this size and was taken like a caliber toy and was basically thrown from the beach.”
At the end of the discovery, the concrete that draws the shore was dragged to a wall.
Atlantis Adventures, the owner of Discovery, said in a statement that two experienced crew members on the ship were not injured.
Atlantis Adventures said, uz We are working closely with all government regulatory institutions in order to secure the boat from the ground, to retreat to the pier and to supervise it before returning to service, ”Atlantis said.
The company said the Coast Guard Certified and regularly subjected to coastal security inspections. The captains go to the Waikiki submarine diving area and trained and certified by coastal security.
