The March 2017 edition of imPULSE, the Commission’s quarterly newsletter, can be read online. This issue includes resumes of the latest awardees’ heroic acts, as well as a review of the Commission’s …
Keoni Bowthorpe, center, of Waialua, Hawaii, was awarded the Carnegie Medal by Hawaii’s governor, David Ige, right, at a ceremony in the state capitol in Honolulu in November 2016. With …
Colin W. Cook, left, was surfing in the Pacific Ocean off Haleiwa, Hawaii, on Oct. 9, 2015, when he was attacked by an 11-foot-long tiger shark, which severed his left …
Keoni Bowthorpe rescued Colin W. Cook from a shark attack, Haleiwa, Hawaii, October 9, 2015. Cook, 25, was surfing in the Pacific Ocean at a point about 600 feet from …