Hawaii pleasure cruiser is tossed by waves before being run aground
On Saturday at around 8.15am, Honolulu station's Coast Guard and Ocean Safety Department responded to reports of a situation at Kewalo Basin Harbor.
A 75-foot vessel had gotten caught up in high surf off the Hawaii beach and was forced to ride the wild waves, nearly flipping on its side at one point.
As the tide started rising, the boat drifted toward shore and became stuck.
At the time, swells were peaking and the tide was bottoming out, KHON-TV reported.
Usually the vessel, named the Discovery, shuttles passengers to Atlantis Submarine Adventures in Waikiki - a company that offers submarine tours 100-feet below the surface.
Luckily, the shuttle boat was only carrying two passengers - including the captain and another experienced crew member. Neither were injured.
'There were no passengers aboard the Discovery shuttle boat when it ran aground this morning,' Atlantis Adventures said. 'The two experienced crew members aboard the shuttle boat were not injured.'
The response crew launched a rescue attempt in a 45-foot boat, but was unable to get to the Discovery shuttle boat because of the water depth.
Ocean Safety used two jet ski operators to reach the boat and confirm that everyone on board was uninjured, Honolulu Fire Department said.
The two crew members on board declined offers to be transported to shore and opted to stay on their vessel until high tide.
The Discovery eventually drifted against a concrete wall that lines the shore.
The vessel holds 2,000 gallons of fuel, HOSD said. Luckily, no flooding or hull damage was found by the captain when they assessed the Discovery.
Surfing filmmaker Ramon Brockington, 41, said he and others had been anticipating the higher swells for three days after monitoring weather apps that use data from ocean buoys.
While dramatic waves rocked the boat, Ramon had been filming body surfers nearby in an area off the harbor known as Panic Point.
'I've never seen anything like that,' he told The Associated Press. 'It almost looked like it was going to flip.
'Basically they were coming in trying to beat this wave. And the boat didn't have enough power to get in front of this wave. So what happened was a wave ended up picking up the boat, and the captain basically lost all steering whatsoever.'
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