By James Gordon Eight people had to be rescued by the U.S. Coastguard in Hawaii after the boat they were on sank. Four adults and four children traveling to Molokai from Oahu on Sunday afternoon were forced to abandon ship when boat they were in sank in the Kaiwi Channel. 'We knew it was going to go down so we just started getting anything that we really needed like life jackets and I put my fins on and we all jumped in the water and the boat went over,' said Jeff Kozlovich. The group left Sandy Beach Park around 1:30 p.m. and brought along three kayaks and the plan was to kayak back to Oahu on Monday.
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They were 12 miles west of Molokai when their 21-foot vessel got hit by rough waters
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The U.S. Coastguard manage to locate the group thanks to signals from their cellphones
Those on board the 21-foot recreational vessel were wearing lifejackets at the time of the sinking in @placeholder