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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2010
Friends of Hanauma Bay held their meetings at night at the education center
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Two women were found unresponsive in Hanauma Bay waters Monday in separate apparent near-drowning incidents.
Both women, ages 56 and 70, were listed in critical condition after being rescued, according to Emergency Medical Services reports.
Ocean Safety lifeguards found the older woman, who had apparently been snorkeling, unresponsive and floating face down in waist-deep water roughly 10 yards offshore at about 1:45 p.m.
Lifeguards brought her onto shore, where they administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation and applied an automated external defibrillator, administering one shock. EMS paramedics took over with advanced lifesaving treatment and transported the woman to an emergency room.
Ocean Safety officers found the younger woman not breathing and without a pulse in waters about 40 yards from shore at about 10:15 a.m.
Officers brought her to a beach area and performed CPR, which revived her, EMS said.
Paramedics administered advanced life support treatment and transported the woman to a hospital, EMS said.
EMS spokeswoman Shayne Enright said the two incidents were unrelated and conditions were good along the shoreline.
Records show there were 45 downings at Hanauma from 1993 through 2013, with circulatory diseases such as heart disease listed as contributing to many of the deaths.