A yacht-sized passenger boat ran aground in the high surf off a Hawaii beach over the weekend, with the vessel precariously riding a set of powerful waves and appearing to nearly flip on its side before coming to rest.
KHON-TV reported that the events occurred around 8 a.m. Saturday when the swells were peaking and the tide was bottoming out.
Two crew members were on the 60-foot (18 meter) vessel, named Discovery, when it ran aground near Honolulu’s Kewalo Basin Harbor, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement…