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Press Release | Aug. 19, 2025

MEDIA AVAILABILITY: Coast Guard to discuss salvage of grounded passenger vessel in Honolulu

Coast Guard Oceania District External Affairs - (808) 265-7748

WHO: Coast Guard Sector Honolulu 

WHAT: Coast Guard representatives will discuss the salvage of the Discovery, a 75-foot passenger vessel that ran aground in Kewalo Basin on Aug. 9 

WHEN: Wednesday, Aug. 20, at 9:30 a.m. 

WHERE: Kewalo Basin Harbor, 1125 Ala Moana Blvd, Honolulu, HI 96814 

HONOLULU — Media are invited to interview a Coast Guard Sector Honolulu representative about the salvage of a grounded vessel at Kewalo Basin Harbor in Honolulu Wednesday.  

During the salvage operation Tuesday afternoon, a Coast Guard Station Honolulu boat crew will enforce a safety zone around the tugboat and grounded passenger vessel.  

The Discovery, a 75-foot passenger vessel that operates as a shuttle for Atlantis Adventures, was secured to the Kewalo Basin seawall after running aground with two people aboard 60 feet outside Kewalo Basin Harbor on Aug. 9.  

The on-scene weather at the time of the grounding consisted of 5 mph winds and 8 to 10-foot seas with a building south swell resulting in 10 to 12-foot breaking waves on Oahu’s south shore. 

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