{"id":8839,"date":"2021-12-02T22:28:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T22:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/?p=8839"},"modified":"2021-12-06T00:18:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T00:18:06","slug":"recreational-fishing-boat-nearly-rammed-by-submarine-just-yards-from-ala-wai-harbor-entrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/02\/recreational-fishing-boat-nearly-rammed-by-submarine-just-yards-from-ala-wai-harbor-entrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii: Recreational fishing boat nearly rammed by submarine just yards from Ala Wai harbor entrance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Hawaii Ocean News exclusive)\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><\/span>(Note to reader: we've updated this article for clarity. Editor)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Pat Senckowski, owner of PurAir Hawaii and skipper and owner of the 35' sports fishing boat, Enticer<\/i>, was clearly shaken, \". . . at first I thought it was a speed boat . . . it was going so fast -- looked like 30 knots!\"<\/span><\/p>\n

7pm, Saturday evening, November 27th, 2021, just yards from the entrance buoys to the Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor in Honolulu, the Enticer<\/i> was returning from a multiple day fishing expedition with four crew members on board.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"I was coming into the harbor and was just yards from the entrance buoy.\u00a0 I looked to my right and saw two dim lights coming at me, and I thought to myself, 'wow, that guy's going fast'; but initially, I thought the guy saw me and he was going to miss me so I just kept on going.\u00a0 But as he started approaching, the outline of the sub started to become apparent . . . and it dawned on me that we were on a collision course.\u00a0 The sub didn't slow at all.\u00a0 I had to slam the boat into reverse in order to prevent getting cut in half.\"\u00a0 (Our understanding, he was approaching the very first buoy marking the entrance to the yacht harbor.\u00a0 Editor<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Each of the four crew members witnessed the encounter and claim to have had a good look at the sub.\u00a0 \". . . the thing was huge and when it got closer I knew what it was,\" said Senckowski,\u00a0 \" . . . one of the crew members was giving me the all clear sign to go ahead but I knew there was more [length to the sub] to come\u00a0 . . .\u00a0 I was waiting for the tail fin [dorsal stern fin] to go by so it wouldn't cut us in two.\u00a0 I saw the stern end but there was no tail fin.\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Brian, another of Enticer's<\/i> crew members, confirmed that everyone on board saw the sub and witnessed the encounter, and he and Senckowski later spoke with the U.S. Coast Guard.\u00a0 \"After we reported the incident, they called us back several times trying to get more information,\" Brian said.<\/span><\/p>\n

During one of the conversations the Coast Guard acknowledged that the sub may very well have been of foreign registry, as there were no U.S. subs in the vicinity at the time and place of the near collision.\u00a0 \"They [the Coast Guard] seemed very interested, and we had several calls from them . . .\u00a0 ,\" said Senckowski.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brian, a web savvy millennial, did a search on the Web for submarine profiles.\u00a0 \"From what I could remember and what I found on the Internet, the profile looked like it might belong to a Russian submarine.\"<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Hawaii Ocean News exclusive)\u00a0 (Note to reader: we’ve updated this article for clarity. Editor) Pat Senckowski, owner of PurAir Hawaii and skipper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-8839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-vessel-encounters-in-hawaiian-waters","tag-russian-sub-nearly-collides-with-recreational-fishing-boat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hawaiioceannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Pats-Boat-scalled-and-MOD-.jpg?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8839"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8875,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions\/8875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}