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Renewed efforts to pull a 40-foot vessel stuck on a reef in Kaneohe Bay failed Friday — the second time this week.
State Board of Land and Natural Resources spokeswoman Deborah Ward said the contractor hired to do the removal will probably try again this weekend, depending on weather conditions.
Ward said efforts were made to remove the vessel, Boom Boom, Friday morning during high tide, but the boat "didn’t want to come off."
"They’re trying to be very careful … to avoid any further damage to the coral," she said.
Boom Boom went aground at about midnight Nov. 6 on the reef near the Ahu o Laka sandbar in Kaneohe Bay.
The vessel was on live coral in an area used for marine tourism, Ward said.
Considerable damage has occurred to a section of the reef, including more than 100 coral heads, an official with the Nature Conservancy said.
The state says marine salvage contractor Parker Marine Worldwide LLC first tried to remove the vessel during the high tide early Thursday morning but ran into problems trying to protect the reef.