More time might have averted collision: sonar chief

More time might have averted collision: sonar chief

HONOLULU, United States - Petty Officer Edward McGiboney, sonar supervisor on the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, tells the Navy's Court of Inquiry in Honolulu on March 16 that the collision between the sub and the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru might have been averted had more time been put into getting an accurate sonar reading of the surface picture.

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