Personal locator beacons (PLBs) and emergency position-indicating radio beacons (EPIRBs) are tools that most boaters hope they will never have to use, but they can literally save your life. Able to ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Two men are safe in Kapolei after abandoning ship in the waters off Molokai. Shortly before 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 17, the U.S. Coast Guard responded to a mayday call from the ...

At around 1:50 p.m., the Coast Guard received a mayday call from the captain of the Holokai, a 42-foot commercial fishing vessel that was taking on water two miles south of Molokai.

In the 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing her crew of 29, many advances in weather and technology have made bulk carrier shipping safer. Improvements include more real ...