Five scuba divers struggling in the water for hours off the Hawaiian coast were rescued last Wednesday by a sailing couple that heard their screams for help and found “five little dots” in the vast ocean.
Camila Storchi and her husband were on their sailboat traveling from Kaneohe to Honolulu when they heard the desperate pleas coming from the water, she told local station Hawaii News Now.
The scuba divers were separated from their boat during the excursion, leading the group to hang onto each other in a bid for survival.
“We were passing Hanauma and going around China Walls,” Storchi told the local outlet. “He heard screaming for help and he started scanning the ocean and we saw five little dots.”
She said in an Instagram post that the couple raced toward the group where one of the divers was “gray, hypothermia, throwing up.”
But the couple could not safely bring the five aboard safely,…
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