
09-24-11 HONOLULU, HI Hawaii Kai man presumed dead after going overboard during fishing trip hawaiinewsnow.com (09-27-11) The children of a Hawaii Kai man are searching for answers after he failed to return from a fishing trip over the weekend. Victim, 57, was on his fishing boat with his new wife and 2 of their friends, when he somehow went overboard and couldn't be saved. Victim's children are stunned by the incident, saying he was an avid fisherman who knew the ocean well and was physically fit. He reportedly went overboard during a fishing trip about 13 mi. S. of Hawaii Kai Sat. (09-24). He was on his 40-ft. fishing boat, Ikaika, with his wife and friends for what began as a beautiful, calm journey to the Molokai Channel. Suddenly, they hooked a big mahi mahi. They heard him yell, looked up, and saw him hit the water. "I jumped in the water and then wife jumped in," one of the friends said. "subject kept telling me, 'Turn him over. Turn him over.' But each time I tried turning him over, I was kind of drowning myself. "I threw the lifejacket at first and he was unresponsive to that," the friend recalled. "Then I found a floating device. I tied a rope to that and I threw that out." But the women say the 2-4-ft. seas were simply too rough. The USCG arrived with a 45-ft. response boat, the 110-ft. cutter Galveston Island and an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter, and scoured 117 sq. mi. over a 10-hr. period before suspending the search. The CG is investigating and, on Mon. (09-26), questioned the women who were on board. Victim was not wearing a lifejacket. 

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