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Post 1286

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Posted Friday, 23 July 2004

Hawaii: Speeding tour boat maims divers off Kauai: This story brings back bad memories for me. Getting run over by a boat is a nasty experience. “Isham, 25, a dive instructor on the Blue Dolphin, a Na Pali Coast tour boat, and Claypool, a first-time diver who was with him, were seriously injured when another tour boat, Captain Andy’s Spirit of Kauai, ran over them and hit both with its propeller. Isham lost his left leg.”

Tags: Hawaii, Kauai, time

Helios breaks up near Kauai

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Posted Friday, 27 June 2003

US: NASA’s Helios aircraft fell down and went boom. New Scientist: “‘We were flying at about the 8000-foot [1800 metres] altitude west of Kauai over the ocean and the aircraft simply broke up…’”

Tags: Hawaii, Kauai, NASA, ocean