The 120-foot Maui Princess ran aground in shallow waters off Lahaina around 8:30 a.m. Thursday. But the U.S. Coast Guard says they are not responding because the crew was not in distress.

The Cooper family told the designer they wanted one of the biggest houseboats ever built. "He came in and said, 'How wide can I build it? 22 foot? How long? I said, '120 foot. And he said ...