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Rescue vehicles & chopper on Sat - - Carey - 03-24-2013
Noticed a lot of rescue activity heading out to lower Puna mid-afternoon on Sat. - but did not find out till this afternoon that there was a potential drowning at Orrs Beach in Waawaa - Mid aged man got caught up in some wicked water 10 yards out...
RE: Rescue vehicles & chopper on Sat - - bananahead - 03-24-2013
not much to add
http://www.khon2.com/content/news/developingstories/story/Man-rescued-from-Orrs-Beach-Saturday/4W5v-xxYu0imGvti1nUzuQ.cspx
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RE: Rescue vehicles & chopper on Sat - - bananahead - 03-24-2013
a little more info here... title says 'drowns'
http://www.hawaii247.com/2013/03/23/man-drowns-at-orrs-beach-in-puna-saturday-march-23/
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
RE: Rescue vehicles & chopper on Sat - - waawaawah - 03-27-2013
Does anyone know name of drowning victim?
RE: Rescue vehicles & chopper on Sat - - opihikao - 03-27-2013
FYI: So sad.
(*Snipped - More at link)
http://bigislandnow.com/2013/03/27/swimmer-pulled-from-water-saturday-drowned/
by Big Island Now Staff
A 37-year-old Colorado man pulled from the water off a Puna beach Saturday died of drowning.
That was the results of an autopsy performed Tuesday, police said today.
RE: Rescue vehicles & chopper on Sat - - opihikao - 04-01-2013
FYI: Update: 4/1/13
by Big Island Now Staff
Police have identified a 37-year-old man who drowned March 23 while swimming off the lower Puna coast as Jay Patrick Corbett of Gunnison, Colo.
Police said Corbett apparently became trapped underwater by currents while jumping off cliffs with friends at Orr’s Beach off the Waawaa subdivision.
http://bigislandnow.com/2013/04/01/police-identify-waawaa-drowning-victim/