This first-person account of a Cospas-Sarsat aided rescue in Honolulu was originally told by the author, who is from the U.S. Coast Guard, to Cospas-Sarsat Officials in Kyoto, who encouraged him to share it in written form.
We are glad that he did!
Read this ‘magical’ story of an uncharacteristically foggy day in Honolulu and a local fisherman adrift with a dying CB radio here:
http://mycoordinates.org/rescue-magic-a-true-tale-of-search-and-rescue/