RedactedNarrative: Search launched for missing 62-year-old paddler
  Posted: Oct 21, 2010 11:00 AM Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:00 PM EST Updated: Oct 21, 2010 11:00 AM Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:00 PM EST 
  
  HONOLULU (AP) - The U.S. Coast Guard has joined the Maui fire and police departments in searching for a 62-year-old paddler reported missing near Kaupo.
  Coast Guard officials said Thursday that a resident of the Valley Island reported the man missing Wednesday afternoon. He was wearing a black top and black shorts.
  
  The search effort includes helicopters, a 45-foot response boat from Coast Guard Station Maui and the Coast Guard cutter Ahi, an 87-foot patrol boat home-ported in Honolulu.
  
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  Search continues for missing paddleboarder, 62, of Kaupo
  October 23, 2010
  
  KAUPO - The Maui Fire Department was continuing a search Friday for a 62-year-old man who last was seen on a paddleboard Wednesday afternoon about a quarter-mile offshore near Kaupo.
  
  Police identified the missing man. He was described as 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighing 190 pounds. He is bald with blue eyes.
  Responding to a 1:52 p.m. call Wednesday from someone who saw the paddler and was concerned about the distance he had to go, a fire rescue crew searched waters off Milepost 28 on Piilani Highway and found a surfboard floating in the ocean with no one nearby.
  
  A Coast Guard helicopter and patrol boats joined in the search Wednesday evening, covering an area of more than 218 square miles before the Coast Guard suspended its search at 4 a.m. Friday.
  
  Fire crews were continuing to search Friday.
  
  Police also helped search for subject. A truck containing his personal belongings was found in the area, said Lt. of the Criminal Investigation Division. subjecthad been seen in a prone position attempting to paddle a white paddleboard when officials were called Wednesday afternoon.
NameOfBodyOfWater: Alenuihaha Channel
NearestCityTown: Kaupo                         