The body of a missing free diver has been recovered Sunday morning, according to the Maui Fire Department.
The Coast Guard and Molokai Fire Department searched Papohaku Beach, where 25-year-old Steven Likua was last seen swimming around 3 p.m. The search was suspended around 9:30 p.m. Saturday.
Emergency crews, friends of the victim, and volunteers resumed the search at first light Sunday morning and found Likua’s body around 10:30 a.m. near Kaluakoi Beach.
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Some people no more da kind common sense of staying out of the waters when it is very windy. Duh! Anybody home?
Nice comment to post on a story about somebody who drowned. What a gentleman you are. When it comes to “windy” you’re at the top of the list. Faugh.
Allow the woman to do the sobbing.
If you cannot say anything nice, shut your mouth
You have a hard heart….just remember what goes around comes around!
there goes another five grand down the tubes for an accident that could have been prevented all together.
No worry, brah, it comes out of your taxes.
Animals run away from danger. Humans run towards the sign of any dangerous situation, No need to be macho and prove your ignorance to the world.
Fools rush in where high class chooses not to tread. No need try be clevah and prove your baboozery to da world.
10-4, Rodger that!
The other possibility is a spear fisherman not wanting to give up his string to an apex predator. The guys I dove with out of Puako related that one spear fisherman on the Kohala coast had actually tied his string of fish around his waist like a belt. Tigers are not too dainty where lunch is concerned.
Okay, missed that supposition