Aloha Reporter » Beaches http://alohareporter.com The Hawaiian Buzzzzz Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:13:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Plastic Beach, Hawaii http://alohareporter.com/2010/04/plastic-beach-hawaii/ http://alohareporter.com/2010/04/plastic-beach-hawaii/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:06:33 +0000 ar http://alohareporter.com/?p=161 Kamilo Beach on Hawaii's Big Island

Ocean debris turning Hawaiian beach ‘into plastic’

Consumer waste from the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is turning a Hawaiian beach “into plastic”, Tropic of Cancer presenter Simon Reeve has found.

Conservationist Sam Gon escorted him to the remote Kamilo Beach, where plastic bottles, bags, tyres, rusting petrol cans, and other waste from around the world washes up.

They found more plastic particles than sand, as they dug a hole on what has been described as “the world’s dirtiest beach”.

View Video of Kamilo Beach …

Source: BBC

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]]> http://alohareporter.com/2010/04/plastic-beach-hawaii/feed/ 0 Big Island man drowns while snorkeling http://alohareporter.com/2009/07/big-island-man-drowns-while-snorkeling/ http://alohareporter.com/2009/07/big-island-man-drowns-while-snorkeling/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:02:44 +0000 ar http://alohareporter.com/?p=51 Big Island police identified a 64-year-old Kurtistown man who apparently drowned Wednesday in Puna as Hamilton Manley.

Police responded to a 9:43 a.m. call of a swimmer in distress in waters off the Kapoho Vacationland subdivision off Waiopae Road. A family member told emergency personnel that Manley was found floating in the water 10 minutes after going snorkeling.

Arriving officers found bystanders had pulled Manley from the water and started cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Emergency personnel continued CPR efforts. Manley was taken to Hilo Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 11 a.m.

Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin

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