操縦する: Waves, 不明瞭 妨げるd search for Chinese sailor
KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) ― Waves, 勝利，勝つd and 不明瞭 妨害するd the ocean search off Hawaii for a Chinese man 報告（する）／憶測d 行方不明の while 試みる／企てるing to 始める，決める a sailing 記録，記録的な／記録する, the U.S. Coast Guard 操縦する who was the 使節団's 空気／公表する 指揮官 said Thursday.
"It was pretty 失望させるing not to find him, not to hear him," Lt. Ben 力／強力にするs said at 空気／公表する 駅／配置する Barbers Point in west Oahu, the morning after the Coast Guard called off its search for Guo Chuan. "The hardest thing we do is search for a person in the water because it's a 抱擁する ocean."
Guo, 50, was 試みる／企てるing to 始める，決める a sailing 記録，記録的な／記録する from San Francisco to Shanghai. The search was 一時停止するd after a U.S. 海軍 乗組員 from the USS Makin Island went 船内に Guo's 97-foot trimaran about 620 miles northwest of Oahu and 設立する only his life jacket.
CORRECTS DATE OF PHOTO TO TUESDAY, OCT. 25, 2016 - This photo 供給するd by the U.S. Coast Guard shows a trimaran that the U.S. Coast Guard has 位置を示すd in Hawaii on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. Guo Chuan, a Chinese man 試みる／企てるing to 始める，決める a sailing 記録，記録的な／記録する from San Francisco to Shanghai, has been 報告（する）／憶測d 行方不明の from the ヨット. (U.S. Coast Guard/空気／公表する 駅／配置する Barbers Point 経由で AP)
As one of the 操縦するs of one of the HC-130 Hercules 計画（する）s that 参加するd in the search, 力／強力にするs spent hours scanning the ocean for Guo through 4-to-6-foot waves. There was no moon, he said, so 照明 was low even with night-見通し goggles.
救助者s 無線で通信するd Guo every 15 to 30 minutes, 力／強力にするs said. There was no 返答.
"When the person's in the water 基本的に the only thing above the water is the person's 長，率いる," 力／強力にするs said. "So that's really what we're looking for ― something the size of a human 長，率いる from an 航空機 from 300 to 700 feet."
Because Guo's boat was 井戸／弁護士席-跡をつけるd, 救助者s had a good idea where he fell into the water, 力／強力にするs said.
Guo "was a professional 水夫 with a 深い passion for sailing. Our thanks to our 海軍 partners who helped us search for this 大型船 in a timely manner so far from shore in an 試みる／企てる to 位置を示す Mr. (Guo) Chuan. Our deepest 弔慰s go out not only to his family and friends but also to his racing team and the sailing community," said Capt. Robert Hendrickson, who directed the Coast Guard's search.
Guo's 帆船, the Qingdao 中国, is 流浪して, and its main sail has been taken 負かす／撃墜する, the Coast Guard s 援助（する）. The Coast Guard says it broadcast a 警告 to 水夫s to beware of the drifting boat.
Guo's racing team 計画（する）s to 回復する the 帆船, the Coast Guard said.
Guo was the first Chinese person to sail around the world in 2013, によれば his website, guochuanracing.com.
Guo left San Francisco on Oct. 18 to challenge the 単独の nonstop trans-太平洋の world 記録，記録的な／記録する. The 現在の 速度(を上げる） 記録，記録的な／記録する for that 旅行 is 21 days, and he was trying to sail from San Francisco to Shanghai within 20 days, the website says.
In Beijing, the Foreign 省 said on Thursday that 中国's 領事館 general in Los Angeles had 警報d the U.S. Coast Guard in Hawaii when it learned that Guo could not be reached. 広報担当者 Lu Kang said Chinese 外交官s had helped in the 調整 of the search and continued to 監視する the 状況／情勢.
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This undated photo 供給するd by Guo Chuan Racing shows Guo Chuan. The U.S. Coast Guard in Hawaii was searching Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 for Guo Chuan, a Chinese 水夫 試みる／企てるing to 始める，決める a 単独の sailing 記録，記録的な／記録する from San Francisco to Shanghai. The Coast Guard 位置を示すd his 97-foot trimaran on Tuesday about 600 miles northwest of Oahu but 救助者s searching from the 空気／公表する saw no 調印する of him onboard. (Guo Chuan Racing 経由で AP)
