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...Thompson: Not in any very visible way, although there will be a Japanese representative on the board of inquiry...
...Thompson: If he is, they're not very convincing. Plainly, if he was distracted in the middle of doing his job, that's his problem. He's not allowed to be distracted...
...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...
...Thompson: The NTSB was called in because this collision involved civilians and occurred in U.S. waters. And to be honest, the Navy is not at all opposed to having another set of eyes on this investigation - when something like this happens out on the water and you're not in sovereign territory, issues of control can get kind of messy. Besides, if the inquiry had been totally self-contained within the Navy, it might have looked kind of suspicious...
...Thompson: It's hard to say; the Japanese may press for an assurance that U.S. subs won't practice these high-speed ascents so close to shore, and the Navy may agree. But in reality, you're looking at human error here: The tools and regulations to prevent this accident were all in place, but somebody screwed up on that sub, and new regulations and rules aren't going to change that...