Within the early morning hours at roughly 12:30 a.m., USS Daniel Inouye acquired a name from the U.S. Coast Guard to help the industrial fishing vessel Sea Diamond. Sea Diamond had misplaced all propulsion and reported a shafting propeller casualty.
Inouye was fast in her response and contacted the vessel Sea Diamond at 2:00 a.m. Throughout this time the engineering workforce deployed the ships rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) to help. It was decided that the casualty to propulsion of Sea Diamond was exterior and the RHIB workforce can be unable to additional assist. Daniel Inouye then determined to take the Sea Diamond below tow again to Honolulu. The ship maintained a pace of 6 knots for roughly 12 hours earlier than turning over custodianship to the Coast Guard 5 nautical miles outdoors of Honolulu Harbor.
Sea Diamond is a seventy-one foot lengthy industrial fishing vessel weighing roughly 100 tons. On the time of the casualty there have been 7 crewmembers onboard, together with an observer from the Nationwide Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) who acted as an interpreter between the Sea Diamond and Inouye crew.
“I’m glad that USS Daniel Inouye was in one of the best place to help the Sea Diamond,” stated Cmdr. Dave Haile, Commanding Officer of USS Daniel Inouye. “It’s our obligation to offer assist to our fellow mariners each time and wherever they want it, and the Daniel Inouye’s crew responded admirably and professionally to ensure we may return the Sea Diamond and her crew to protected harbor.”
Following the rescue, USS Daniel Inouye is predicted to make port calls to varied Hawai’i Islands for a mission often called “Journey Round Islands” that goals to strengthen relations with the Hawaiian folks. Greater than 40 members of the crew will probably be taking part in volunteering occasions on the islands to present again to the group and honor Hawaiian tradition.
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