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Known as RS10, the seal was first spotted on March 16 by Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources staff and volunteers on the Garden Isle resting on the sand with about 30 feet of fishing line trailing from his mouth.

The new program would create a cost-sharing partnership with the Department of Health bringing helicopters and funding to operate the program to Hawai‘i, Kaua‘i and Maui Counties.

The woman fell off the cliffs in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision area and was swept out to sea.

According to the U.S. Coast Guard Station Kaua‘i, the man was traveling to O‘ahu on his 35-foot fishing boat to sell the vessel.

The Coast Guard is using all available means to determine the Malulani’s location, including urgent marine information broadcasts and harbor checks in California, Hawai‘i and Mexico.

Thousands of humpback whales seasonally use the waters around the Hawaiian Islands as their principal breeding and calving wintering grounds.

Three crew members were aboard at the time of the incident at Māʻalaea Harbor. The 55-foot vessel’s hull is intact and its anchor deployed.

A routine inspection by the U.S. Coast Guard late Monday turned up an issue with the fire suppression system at the shipping company’s port facility.

The swimmer was found about 100 yards offshore from the Kumukahi lighthouse holding onto a makeshift floatation device.

The missing man, identified as Kenneth Schwalbe of California, is described as 5-foot-5, 140 pounds with brown hair. He was last seen at 8:30 p.m. Aug. 10.

Hawai‘i Fire Department and the U.S. Coast Guard searched for Shanice Ogata-Staudinger, by land and sea, from Sunday evening until the search was called off on Wednesday afternoon. They did not find any signs of her.

While the search continues for a woman from Pāhoa who went missing on July 9 while picking ʻopihi, fire department officials say there is no confirmation that she actually went into the water.

The endangered Hawaiian monk seal Malama, who was treated for malnutrition at Ke Kai Ola’s Marine Mammal Center on the Big Island and found dead on March 12 on O’ahu, was killed by blunt force trauma — and it was believed to be an intentional killing, according to NOAA Fisheries.

Hawai‘i Fire Department was dispatched to Honōkohau Harbor at 10:12 p.m. When they arrived at the scene, crews found the boat was in tide waters and had sustained substantial front hull damage.

Voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa is scheduled to depart Juneau for Yakutat on Friday morning to begin the first leg of the Alaska Heritage Sail.

Three endangered Hawaiian monk seals have a second chance at life in the ocean after being rehabilitated at Kona’s marine hospital, Ke Kai Ola.

Eric Roberts previously served as deputy superintendent of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument since September 2019, where he led a team of policy and program specialists in the day-to-day management.

A Hawaiʻi Fire Department crew arrived around 7: 18 p.m. on Thursday to find a small boat with two fishermen aboard drifting about 100 yards offshore of the Four Seasons Hualālai coastline and toward a reef.

Honolulu-based Visionary Marine used a salvage ship late Sunday to attempt more than a dozen “pulls” of the grounded luxury yacht Nakoa during high tide. In the dark, and on the final pull, the vessel moved 10 to 20 feet.

A 120-ton, 94-foot luxury yacht that grounded in a Maui bay now is defueled. Next is a $460,000 plus salvage operation.