Salvage team sinks fishing boat off Hawaii reef

HONOLULU (AP) " A commercial fishing vessel carrying foreign workers that ran aground and later burned and leaked fuel just off the beaches of Waikiki was towed out to sea Thursday and sunk by a team of salvage workers.After being patched up and filled with foam to regain buoyancy, the 79-foot (24-meter) Pacific Paradise was hooked to a tug boat and hauled into deeper water as a crowd of people on the beach cheered.An attempt to tow the boat to sea Wednesday failed after it was [...]


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