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On Wednesday, the crew of the Matson boxship Mahimahi <\/em>rescued three sailors from the disabled 50-foot trimaran Third Try <\/em>at a position 825 miles northeast of Oahu.<\/p>\n At 0800 hours on Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard's 14th District rescue coordination center received a report from a friend of the trimaran’s master, who expressed concern because the vessel had not made contact since Monday. The sailing vessel was attempting a non-stop circumnavigation of the globe, and its last known position was between California and Hawaii.<\/p>\n JRCC watchstanders issued a broadcast to shipping and spoke with the master's friends and family to find out more about the vessel's planned route. They also reached out to Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue System (AMVER) ships in the area for assistance, and the crew of the nearby Matson feedermax Mahimahi <\/em>agreed to divert and search for the Third Try <\/em>along its suspected route.<\/p>\n At 1500 hours on Tuesday, the JRCC received an alert from an EPIRB registered to the Third Try.<\/em> They launched a Hercules aircrew out of Air Station Barbers Point to the scene and let the Mahimahi's <\/em>crew know about the new location.<\/p>\n The Hercules aircrew arrived on scene and located the drifting Third Try<\/em>. The aircrew reported the vessel had structural damage and had lost its rudder. The three sailors on board were asking for help leaving the vessel. <\/p>\n At about 0330 hours on Wednesday morning, the Mahimahi's <\/em>crew arrived on scene and successfully evacuated the three mariners from the Third Try.<\/em><\/p>\n “One of our greatest challenges out here in the Pacific is distance,” said Lt. Diane French, a Joint Rescue Coordination Center (JRCC) command duty officer. “First responders are often days away and we regularly rely on merchant vessel crews like the Mahimahi’s <\/em>to assist with search and rescue cases. We are always grateful for their help.”<\/p>\n The Mahimahi <\/em>(ex name President Washington<\/em>) is a 2,800 TEU boxship built at Avondale in 1983. <\/p>\n maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Wednesday, the crew of the Matson boxship Mahimahi rescued three sailors from the disabled 50-foot trimaran Third Try at a position 825 miles northeast of Oahu. At 0800 hours on Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard's 14th District rescue coordination center received a report from a friend of the trimaran’s master, who expressed concern because …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1069,276,1893,8813,249,8814,1535,2693,2175,8815],"class_list":["post-13417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-american","tag-boxship","tag-hawaii","tag-mahimahi","tag-pacific","tag-president-washington","tag-rescue","tag-rescues","tag-sailors","tag-third-try"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/13418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}