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Hawaiʻi Island police are releasing the name of a man who went missing last weekend while fishing from a cliff in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision in Puna. He has been identified as 51-year-old Joseph M. Leialoha of Keaʻau.

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Search and rescue crews concluded their final day of searching for a missing fisherman, Charles Rosecranes, Saturday (Oct 4). Rosecranes was swept off his boat 1 a.m. Wednesday (Oct 1) into Pohoiki Bay. Rosencranes was making engine repairs to the 15-foot boat he and a friend were operating when he fell overboard. Rosecranes was last […]

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Fire/rescue crews spent another day searching for a 56-year-old fisherman last seen about 9 p.m. Friday (June 6) before falling into the ocean near MacKenzie State Park. Sources say the man either fell or was swept into the water by a wave fronting the Malama Flats area.

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Rescue crews searched the shoreline fronting Malama Flats near MacKenzie State Park for a missing 56-year-old fisherman who was last seen 9 p.m. Friday (June 6) in the area. Witnesses said the man was swept out to sea after either slipping or being washed off a 10-foot cliff by a wave.

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Hawaii County Fire Department crews retrieved the body of a fisherman after spotting him on the rocky Puna shoreline shortline before 6 a.m. Wednesday (Feb 6). The man had been fishing on the shoreline of Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision near Ala Neiau Road Tuesday night (Feb 5) when he fell into the ocean striking his […]

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Hawaii County Fire Department crews suspended the search for a fisherman who fell into the ocean at South Point Sunday night (Jan 13). A rescue boat, Chopper One and ground crews reportedly found nothing of the fisherman Thursday (Jan 17). Earlier in the week a Coast Guard plane, cutter and helicopter along with a National […]

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Fire department crews spent another day searching for a 67 year-old man who fell about 20 feet into the ocean at South Point while night fishing Sunday (Jan 13). The fisherman was last seen about 50 yards offshore in the darkness before witnesses lost sight of him. Today at dawn ground crews, a rescue boat […]

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Fire/rescue crews answered a 2:49 p.m. alarm Sunday (June 2) to South Point for a missing fisherman off-shore the South Point lighthouse in Ka‘u. The fisherman was reported to have been using a ‘throw net’ and was swept into the ocean by a wave in rough ocean conditions.

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