The Coast Guard, Japan Coast Guard, as well as the Kauaʻi Fire and Police Departments are searching for a missing free-diver off Kauaʻi.  The 47 year-old male was last seen wearing a black wetsuit and using a clear milk jug as a dive float in the vicinity of Glass Beach on Kauaʻi.

On the morning of Monday, June 21, 2021, Sector Honolulu watchstanders received a report from the Kaua’i Police Department stating that the free-diver did not return and his car remained in the parking lot at Glass Beach.

Watchstanders issued an Urgent Marine Information Broadcast notice to mariners and launched multiple Coast Guard assets. The Japan Coast Guard vessel Kojima, currently in Honolulu for search and rescue exercises, will also be joining the search.

Anyone with information regarding the freediver’s whereabouts is requested to contact the Coast Guard Sector Honolulu command center at 808-842-2600.

Agencies currently involved in the search include:

– An Air Station Barbers Point HC-130 Hercules airplane aircrew

-An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew

-Coast Guard Station Kauai 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew

-The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Gerczak (WPC 1126)

-The crew of the Japan Coast Guard vessel Kojima (The  3rd PL21)

-Kauai Police Department

-Kauai Fire Department Air One helicopter aircrew