{"id":3002,"date":"2015-03-31T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.starofhonolulu.com\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2024-07-09T02:36:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T02:36:31","slug":"star-of-honolulu-captain-wins-national-safety-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starofhonolulu.com\/jp\/blog\/star-of-honolulu-captain-wins-national-safety-award","title":{"rendered":"Star of Honolulu Captain Wins National Safety Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Passenger Vessel Association (PVA) has honored Star of Honolulu\u2019s Chief Captain and Vessel Security Officer Wade Matsueda as the recipient of the 2015 Roger Murphy National Maritime Safety Award. This award recognizes deserving individuals for demonstrating safety in the marine environment and contributing to the safety of their company and the passenger vessel industry. Captain Matsueda was recognized by the PVA\u2019s Safe and Security Committee for his \u201cefforts to improve the safety of recreational divers through the creation of a safety manual and voluntary standards for dive vessel operations, which has had an immediate positive impact on the Hawaiian recreational diving fleet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commandant of the United States Coast Guard Admiral Paul F. Zukunft presented Captain Matsueda the award in February at the PVA\u2019s annual convention in Long Beach, California. The entire Star of Honolulu \u2018ohana is extremely proud of Captain Matsueda\u2019s achievement and admire his dedication to going above and beyond to enhance safety in our industry. Way to go, Captain!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starofhonolulu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/captain-safety-award.jpg\" alt=\"Captain Accepting Award\" width=\"700\" height=\"634\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Passenger Vessel Association (PVA) has honored Star of Honolulu\u2019s Chief Captain and Vessel Security Office&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starofhonolulu.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starofhonolulu.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starofhonolulu.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starofhonolulu.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starofhonolulu.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starofhonolulu.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376219,"href":"https:\/\/starofhonolulu.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions\/376219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starofhonolulu.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starofhonolulu.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starofhonolulu.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}