HAWAII KAI, Hawaii (KHON2) — Coast Guard officials confirmed they are investigating what happened to a group of divers who were lost at sea for about an hour and a half. The boat captain who helped in the rescue said it’s scary to think what could have happened.
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Five divers were rescued about a mile off Hawaii Kai. They were found because of lucky timing.
“My husband started hearing sounds of screaming for help,” said Camila Storchi, Holding Fast captain. “I didn’t hear the sounds, the screaming, and he asked me to turn off the music. And we start scanning the horizon and then we saw these little dots afar.”
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“If we were 15 minutes far behind, we would probably not have seen them,” said Strochi. “And who knows when the captain would have put an alert out there.”
The incident happened last Wednesday afternoon. The divers said they’d drifted from their boat and had been lost for about an hour and a half.