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...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 nearby. On Tuesday, however, National Transportation Safety Board officials revealed that the sub's sonar had in fact picked up the Maru just over an hour before the collision. In addition, the Greenville's fire control technician, who's responsible for plotting the sub's position using sonar contacts, told investigators he was distracted from his job less than an hour before the collision...
...Thompson: I'm sort of comforted by the fact that the sub crew saw the ship about an hour before impact. So you have a track on this ship, and then you lose it. To me, it makes a lot more sense than, gee, we never saw it. At least they did see it; at least the sonar is working...
Clarkson's first tally--a soft wrist shot by co-captain Kent Huskins through Jonas' five-hole at 19:16--illustrated a disturbing defensive trend. After dazzling spectators with his Dominik Hasek-like antics between the pipes most of this season, Jonas has had a string of sub-par performances...
...closing in on the purchase of the late Jim Henson's Muppet empire--a $680 million deal that brought Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and the denizens of Sesame Street into the fold of their company, EM.TV & Merchandising. They were the toast of the high-flying Neuer Markt, a sub-exchange that the Deutsche Borse (German Stock Exchange) set up for sky-bound new issues like theirs...
...Like the other services, the Navy routinely takes batches of so-called "opinion leaders" on tours of their operations, to show off their various platforms. And an emergency blow is a neat time to be aboard a sub. Saying they were at the controls may be something of a misnomer, since there's no control over the vessel once it's surfacing. Its path is preordained. And, of course, there are officers on watch standing right behind the civilians, ready to take over in case anything goes wrong. But the issue here wasn't control over the vessel...