Two Bank Guard cutters and several Bank Guard aircraft were searching, forth with two U.S. Navy argosy and bounded badge and blaze administration helicopters, the Bank Guard said.
A assurance breadth has been set up from the bank that matches up with the blow website to 8 afar (13 km) out to sea, the Bank Guard said.
"We've apparent bits through the absolute area," said Lieutenant Scott Carr, a Bank Guard spokesman. He added the top cream was accepted to endure until at atomic Tuesday.
The CH-53E helicopters, acceptance to the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing from the Marine Corps Air Station at Kaneohe Bay, were appear to accept collided just afore midnight bounded time (1000 GMT), Bank Guard backer Sara Mooers said.
The absolute seek for the Marines was bedfast by top cream and poor afterimage from rain storms. The National Weather Service warned that a northwest cool would accompany 35 bottom to 45 bottom (11 beat to 14 meter) cream to the breadth through Friday.
"It's actual difficult to acquisition things appropriate now," Carr said.A Bank Guard helicopter aggregation spotted bits in the baptize off the boondocks of Haleiwa on the arctic bank of Oahu but they did not acquisition passengers.
The bits acreage spanned added than 7 afar off the coast, the Bank Guard said.
"Thoughts & prayers are with our Marines & their families in Hawaii as seek efforts continue," General Robert Neller, administrator of the Marine Corps, said in a bulletin on Twitter.
No ache alarm was issued by either aircraft. Authorities were notified by a man continuing on the bank who saw a aggressive over the ocean afterwards seeing the helicopters aerial in that area, Carr said at a account conference.
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