In 2013, blind Japanese sailor Mitsuhiro Iwamoto’s first trans-Pacific sailing attempt failed when a whale struck his boat.

Hiro Iwamoto, a blind sailor, is planning to make a solo nonstop trans-Pacific crossing from San Diego to Japan in 2027.

A San Diego sailor is preparing for what could be the first-ever solo, non-stop voyage across the Pacific Ocean by a blind ...

Mitsuhiro Iwamoto, a Japanese sailor based in San Diego, who is taking on the world’s first solo, non-stop trans-Pacific ...

2006-11-13 04:00:00 PDT San Diego-- Seven bells on the forenoon watch, 11:30 a.m., the tug Pacific Queen let go the towline and the three-masted bark Star of India heeled gently in a light wind. The ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The 2025 U.S. Para Sailing Championship, hosted by the Coronado Yacht Club, was held in San Diego over the weekend. Twenty-six sailors from four nations (United States, Canada ...

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln made a joyous holiday-season return to San Diego on Friday, ending a deployment in which its escort destroyers had to repel missile and drone attacks by ...

A Coast Guard cutter approaches the sailboat off Point Loma. (Photo courtesy of the Coast Guard) A U.S. Coast Guard patrol interdicted a dozen people aboard a vessel 12 miles west of Point Loma in San ...

A blind, local sailor is preparing for a solo, non-stop journey across the Pacific Ocean, sailing from San Diego to Japan.