{"id":116094,"date":"2024-10-19T22:07:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T15:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116094"},"modified":"2024-10-19T22:07:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T15:07:51","slug":"hawaii-teenager-rescued-after-spending-night-clinging-to-kayak-in-ocean-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116094","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii teenager rescued after spending night clinging to kayak in ocean | Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">A teenager in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/hawaii\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Hawaii<\/a> was recovering on Friday after spending more than 11 hours clinging to a kayak before being rescued during an overnight ocean search by an off-duty lifeguard and the US Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Kahiau Kawai, 17, had gotten separated from his high school paddling team on Wednesday after capsizing approximately half a mile south of Honolulu\u2019s Sheraton Waikiki Beach Resort. He was on a 20-foot kayak and was not wearing a lifejacket, the coast guard said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Kawai\u2019s parents in a statement thanked the state, city and federal rescue teams who searched through the night, with a \u201cvery special mahalo\u201d to family, friends and the Honolulu lifeguard who went out on his own to search for the teen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cKahiau, who could see rescue teams looking for him, was strong, resilient and brave for 11.5 hours in the dark, and is grateful to be back with his family and friends,\u201d Ka\u2019ala and Kelehua Kawai said in the statement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"75de0d4c-a402-4f5f-b4aa-f64d2c0e05ab\" data-spacefinder-role=\"supporting\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-a2pvoh\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1pvqcrw\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><svg width=\"18\" height=\"13\" viewbox=\"0 0 18 13\"><path d=\"M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">A screen grab of video from the US Coast Guard during the rescue operation.<\/span> Photograph: Air Station Barbers Point\/US Coast Guard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The teenager\u2019s Kamehameha schools teammates reported him missing during kayaking practice on Wednesday afternoon, the school said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">At about 4am on Thursday, a coast guard airplane crew located the kayak with the teen clinging to it and deployed a flare to mark his position off Waikiki.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Off-duty lifeguard Noland Keaulana, a Polynesian voyager and part of a well-known Native Hawaiian waterman family, had been searching through the night on a boat. The coast guard directed him to the flare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cI was expecting the worst, and then when I seen his head up next to the kayak \u2026 His family is lucky and this kid is strong,\u201d Keaulana said at a news conference on Thursday. \u201cI think he was in total shock because he wasn\u2019t emotional at all. And I was actually crying my guts out because he was OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The boy was treated for injuries and hypothermia and taken to an emergency room. He was in serious but stable condition, the coast guard said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/19\/hawaii-teenager-overnight-ocean-kayak\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager in Hawaii was recovering on Friday after spending more than 11 hours clinging to a kayak before being rescued during an overnight ocean search by an off-duty lifeguard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116094\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}