One man was slightly hurt and three others escaped injury yesterday when their 17-foot recreational dive boat overturned about 100 yards off Lahilahi Point on the Wai'anae Coast shortly before noon. The boat apparently was capsized by a larger than normal southern swell.

"They were in a little too close and the boat got swamped by waves and overturned," said fire department spokesman Capt. Terry Seelig.

When firefighters arrived at the scene, two of the men aboard the gray and blue Boston Whaler, which belongs to the Sea Engineering construction company, had already reached shore by swimming. The other two men were still in the water trying to right the overturned craft.

HFD's Wai'anae crew launched a rescue water craft, which picked up the remaining two men and brought them to shore. One of them had suffered minor leg wounds, apparently while trying to right the dive boat, said Seelig.

The man, 23, was treated at the scene and then taken to Hawaii Medical Center West in Waipahu, in stable condition, said Bryan Cheplic, spokesman for the city Emergency Services Department.

Seelig said firefighters on the rescue boat and Ocean Safety personnel using personal water craft were able to right the Boston Whaler so that it could be towed to the Wai'anae Boat Harbor, where it had launched.

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