The Navy today made a decision to scale down the 2020 Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) and conduct at-sea-only events as Hawaiʻi continues to deal with COVID-19 response efforts in the islands.

The world’s largest international maritime exercise concluded today following more than a month of training events conducted in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California.

Live fire from a ship and an aircraft participating in the RIMPAC exercise sank the decommissioned frigate USS McClusky in waters 55 nautical miles N of Kauaʻi.

Assets participating in RIMPAC sank the decommissioned ex-USS Racine on Thursday, July 12 in waters 15,000 feet deep, 55 nautical miles north of Kauaʻi.

300 volunteers portraying patients from a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami will be triaged on Ford Island today, and transported to hospitals on six islands.

Dozens of ships from 25 nations are arriving in Pearl Harbor this month for the 26th Rim of the Pacific exercise 2018.

Twenty-six nations, 47 surface ships, five submarines, 18 national land forces, and more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel will participate in the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise scheduled June 27 to Aug. 2, in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California.

Twenty-seven nations, 45 ships, five submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel will participate in the biennial Rim of the Pacific exercise scheduled, June 30 - Aug. 4, in and around the Hawaiian Islands and southern California.

The U.S. Navy received federal authorization this month to continue sonar training exercises in Hawaiian waters.  The Fisheries Service with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration does not expect the exercises to result in serious injury or death to marine mammals, but is requiring mitigation measures to protect the whales and other marine life, and... Read more »