{"id":22609,"date":"2015-04-22T20:13:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T20:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=22609"},"modified":"2015-04-22T20:13:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T20:13:29","slug":"cruise-ship-crew-rescues-stranded-sailors-in-kiribati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/04\/cruise-ship-crew-rescues-stranded-sailors-in-kiribati\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Ship Crew Rescues Stranded Sailors in Kiribati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cruise-ship-rescue-boat-16x9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cruise-ship-rescue-boat-16x9.jpg\" alt=\"cruise ship rescue boat 16x9\" width=\"503\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cruise-ship-rescue-boat-16x9.jpg 503w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cruise-ship-rescue-boat-16x9-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two sailors are safe after their 37-foot sailing vessel sustained severe damage when it ran aground, stranding them on a small remote island near Malden Island, Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The men were en route to Tahiti from Lanai, Hawaii, when they ran aground on a coral reef in their vessel, <em>Hina Nui<\/em>. One of the sailors contacted his wife via satellite phone to relay their distress. The men reported irreparable damage to the sailboat, but that they were safe and uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>The wife contacted watchstanders at the U.S. Coast Guard Joint Rescue Coordination Center Honolulu at 11:20 p.m., Wednesday. \u00a0Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maritime-executive.com\/article\/cruise-ship-rescues-sailors-from-remote-island\" target=\"_blank\">www.maritime-executive.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two sailors are safe after their 37-foot sailing vessel sustained severe damage when it ran aground, stranding them on a small remote island near Malden Island, Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean. The men were en route to Tahiti from Lanai, Hawaii, when they ran aground on a coral reef in their vessel, Hina Nui. One of the sailors contacted his wife via satellite phone to relay their distress. The men reported irreparable damage to the sailboat, but that they were safe and uninjured. The wife contacted watchstanders at the U.S. Coast Guard Joint Rescue Coordination Center Honolulu at 11:20 p.m., Wednesday. \u00a0Read more at\u00a0www.maritime-executive.com. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[455,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22646,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22609\/revisions\/22646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}