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The U.S.S. Greeneville rocketed blindly from the deep like a 6,900-ton black torpedo, spewing ocean foam as its bow rose more than 30 m out of the Pacific and crushed the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru. "Jesus!" exclaimed Commander Scott Waddle from the attack sub's control room...
There was even more terror aboard the 58-m fishing boat, on a training voyage with students from Uwajima Fisheries High School in southwest Japan. "I saw something come up, and I thought it was a whale," crew member Hideo Okayama said. "All I heard was someone screaming, 'Danger! Danger...
"There was a very loud noise and the entire submarine shuddered." JOHN HALL, civilian oilman who pulled the levers to start the rapid surfacing maneuver on the U.S.S. Greeneville, which led to the boat's collision with a Japanese fishing trawler
An ongoing investigation into the deadly February 9 collision of the USS Greeneville and the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru was going nowhere fast. Civilians and Navy personnel on board the submarine that day reported that careful and routine surveillance did not at any time reveal the presence of ships...
And now it turns out the submarine sonar did, in fact, pick up the fishing boat. What do you make of that?