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Big Waves at Jaws and Rate Hikes at Kaiser

by Jacob Shafer

December 10, 2009

50 feet

Projected height of waves that hit the outer reef of Maui’s north shore this week; a powerful northwest swell caused the County to close Baldwin and Hookipa beach parks and brought some of the biggest surf in decades

400-500 feet

Estimated length of polypropylene rope from which a juvenile humpback whale was freed, after becoming entangled off Molokai last week

12.6 percent

Amount by which the rates of thousands of Hawaii Kaiser members with individual plans will go up, effective January 1; a proposed 10.7 percent hike on business plans is awaiting state approval

55

Number of Pearl Harbor survivors who attended a December 7 ceremony on Oahu commemorating the 68th anniversary of the attack

Sources: National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hawaiian Islands Humpback National Marine Sanctuary, Associated Press, Pacific Business News, Honolulu Advertiser