Sailor goes overboard and dies
A 32-year-old sailor from the Pearl Harbor-based USS Russell died Wednesday after falling overboard while the guided-missile destroyer was 50 miles off Oahu.
The destroyer’s crew responded to a man-overboard alarm at about 5:30 p.m. while conducting unspecified operations, the Navy said. The ship’s rescue swimmer brought the sailor back aboard about 15 minutes later, but he was unconscious and not breathing.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation proved fruitless, and the sailor was pronounced dead at 6:35 p.m.
The Navy would not disclose the sailor’s name until relatives could be notified, but said that he was a second-class petty officer who reported to the ship in January 2009.
The Navy said a formal investigation will ensue.
The Russell returned from a Western Pacific deployment in April.
Sailboat runs aground off Keehi
The Coast Guard and Honolulu Fire Department came to the aid of a disabled sailboat that ran aground Thursday just south of Keehi Lagoon.
The Coast Guard was called at 10:29 a.m. and was at the scene at 10:59 a.m.
A spokesman said that the 32-foot sloop was in water too shallow, and the seas were too rough, for Coast Guard vessels to handle the operation, so the Fire Department was called in.
Lifeguards used a watercraft to transport a passenger to a Coast Guard vessel, while the owner stayed with the sailboat.
The Fire Department got the boat unstuck, and the Coast Guard towed it to Keehi Lagoon, where it was moored at 1:12 p.m.
