| Posted on February 8, 2002 |
Greeneville incident alumni
Eight Navy men were involved in last year's Court of Inquiry that sought to determine how the submarine USS Greeneville collided Feb. 9. 2001 with the Ehime Maru, killing nine people aboard the Japanese training vessel.
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| Posted on November 25, 2001 |
Ehime Maru brought to final resting place
Suspended beneath a Crowley Maritime barge, the Ehime Maru slowly traversed 21 nautical miles yesterday and this morning before it was to be released to what will surely be its last resting place, 12 miles off Kalaeloa Point and 1,000 fathoms below the surface.
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| Posted on November 16, 2001 |
Navy prepares to move Ehime Maru to final spot
The Navy's search for the ninth victim of the Ehime Maru tragedy officially ended yesterday, and preparations start tomorrow to move the ship to its final resting place.
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| Posted on November 7, 2001 |
Kaka'ako may get Ehime memorial
A Japanese delegation has picked a spot in Kaka'ako Waterfront Park for a possible Ehime Maru memorial that could incorporate an anchor from the sunken fisheries training vessel. |
| Posted on October 30, 2001 |
Divers search for 9th Ehime Maru victim
The 20 percent of the sunken Ehime Maru that divers have left to search will answer Tatsuyoshi Mizuguchi's questions about whether his son's remains will ever be found. |
| Posted on October 28, 2001 |
Recovery of teen's body was a surprise
Although most everything indicated that the body of Yusuke Terata would not be found in the wreckage of the Ehime Maru, the body recovered by divers on Friday was identified yesterday by medical examiners as that of Terata. |
| Posted on October 26, 2001 |
Five Ehime Maru victims honored at service
Families of Ehime Maru victims received the welcome of Hawai'i's Buddhist community yesterday during cremation services for five victims of the Feb. 9 accident. |
| Posted on October 24, 2001 |
Families visit new site of Ehime Maru
Nine Japanese families stood at the bow of a catamaran yesterday and stared into the ocean that had been the grave of their loved ones. |
| Posted on October 23, 2001 |
Danger grows with depth of dives into Ehime Maru
One week and more than 120 dives into this segment of the Navy's $60 million Ehime Maru recovery effort, divers have searched almost half the ship and recovered six of the nine victims' bodies. |
| Posted on October 22, 2001 |
Recovery of Ehime Maru tests Navy skill
In its attempts to describe just how difficult it would be to rig and lift the Ehime Maru from a depth of 2,000 feet, the Navy did its best to draw a land-based picture of the deep-sea recovery it was undertaking nine miles south of Diamond Head. |
| Posted on October 21, 2001 |
Ehime Maru crewman identified
Ehime Maru crewman Hiroshi Nishida was identified yesterday as one of two bodies divers recovered from the sunken ship Friday. |
| Posted on October 19, 2001 |
Second body identified, two more recovered from Ehime Maru
Katsuya Nomoto was the second body identified this week in the Navy's $60 million recovery effort of the Japanese ship that sank eight months ago. Nine people died when the Navy submarine USS Greeneville slammed into the Ehime Maru's hull. |
| Posted on October 18, 2001 |
Ehime Maru yields two more bodies
Navy divers found two more bodies yesterday inside the sunken Ehime Maru, bringing the total to three found since the wreckage was towed to shallow water. |
| Posted on October 17, 2001 |
Navy divers recover body from Ehime Maru wreck
Navy divers yesterday recovered the first body of a victim from the sunken Ehime Maru. The discovery, made within 24 hours of the first dives since the Japanese fishing vessel was towed to shallower water, is the biggest breakthrough in the Navy's $60 million mission to find remains of nine people who died in the accident with the USS Greeneville eight months ago. |
| Posted on October 15, 2001 |
Ehime Maru move complete
After months of painstaking effort, some of which at first appeared to be in vain, the Navy successfully moved the Ehime Maru out of water deep enough to crush human divers, across 14 nautical miles of ocean, up a steep underwater slope and into a new resting place where Japanese and American divers can explore it. |
| Posted on September 16, 2001 |
Submarine's ex-skipper won't take trip to Japan
The former commander of the U.S. submarine that rammed and sank a Japanese fisheries training ship will not visit Japan before he retires on Sept. 30, according to the Navy. |
| Posted on September 10, 2001 |
Tanaka lauds Ehime Maru recovery effort
Japanese Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka met briefly with both U.S. Navy and Japan's Sea Self-Defense Forces divers at Pearl Harbor yesterday during a whirlwind Hawai'i stopover en route to Tokyo. She said she was impressed with the efforts to recover the Ehime Maru. |
| Posted on September 5, 2001 |
Ehime Maru salvage continues
Underwater salvage experts have established one thing for certain: they can lift the stern of the Ehime Maru. |
| Posted on September 4, 2001 |
Salvage ship lifts Ehime Maru again
Navy and civilian salvage experts early yesterday morning again lifted the stern of the Ehime Maru off the ocean floor to adjust cables needed to move the sunken ship to shallow water. |
| Posted on September 3, 2001 |
Ehime Maru victims' kin count down days to move
Nine miles south of Diamond Head, Navy and civilian salvage experts are on the verge of moving the 830-ton Ehime Maru to shallow water, where divers can enter the ship and search for remains.
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| Posted on August 16, 2001 |
Navy divers rehearsing tricky salvage mission
Out on the mouth of Pearl Harbor, far from piers lined with Navy ships, teams of salvage divers are earnestly rehearsing for the grim task of recovering bodies from the Ehime Maru. |
| Posted on August 3, 2001 |
Ehime Maru salvage begins next week
Navy officials are predicting they have an 80 percent chance of successfully moving the Ehime Maru to shallow water later this month.
Uwajima mourners spared 'Pearl Harbor' screenings
Disney's romanticized war movie, "Pearl Harbor," is banned from this harbor town 430 miles southwest of Tokyo. That's because emotions are still raw six months after a U.S. Navy submarine from Pearl Harbor collided with a Japanese fisheries training ship nine miles off O'ahu. |
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