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...nothing prepared them for the shock of hearing that an American submarine, nuclear-powered and laden with the world's most sophisticated electronic gear, sprang without warning out of the waters near Hawaii, smashing into and sinking the Ehime Maru, a training vessel from the Uwajima Fisheries High School. Nine local men and boys are still lost at sea. As more and more incomprehensible details about the incident became known?the surfacing exercise was for the entertainment of visitors, two civilians were at the controls, the submarine crew appeared to make no effort to take survivors aboard, the search...
...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, as his vessel shuddered around him. "What the hell was that?" Some 30 sailors and civilians, crammed into the Greeneville's control room, watched in horror as Waddle brought the periscope around to reveal what they had just done: a television screen displaying the periscope's view suddenly filled with the sickening image...
...crew were still responsible for scouring the surface with their sonar and periscope before launching the "emergency main ballast blow." The choppy waters and the ship's white color may have made detecting the trawler difficult. But Navy officers said that if, as the trawler's crew said, their vessel was steaming at 11 knots, it should have been generating enough noise to make sonar detection easy...
...Boulouris beach near Saint Raphael. "The captain has fled, leaving the boat facing land, the propellors turned so that the boat cannot drift away," said Saint Raphael mayor Georges Ginestat. Rescuers believed the boat had left Greece eight days earlier and had stopped in Turkey. The vessel's human cargo, including 300 children under age 10, were assumed to be potential illegal migrants. None was seriously injured when the boat was beached, though a French official told France Info radio that their physical condition was "deplorable," that they had been forced to stand in the hold in unsantiary conditions...
...rocketed blindly from the deep like a 6,900-ton black torpedo, spewing ocean foam as its bow rose more than 100 ft. out of the Pacific and crushed the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru. "Jesus!" exclaimed Commander Scott Waddle from the attack sub's control room, as his vessel shuddered around him. "What the hell was that?" Some 30 sailors and civilians, crammed into the Greeneville's control room, watched in horror as Waddle brought the periscope around to reveal what they had just done: a television screen displaying the periscope's view suddenly filled with the sickening image...