U.S. Navy ends search for last Ehime Maru victim

U.S. Navy ends search for last Ehime Maru victim

HONOLULU, United States - U.S. Navy Rear Adm. William Klemm (L) tells reporters in Honolulu on Nov. 7 that the Navy has ended its search for the remains of the ninth and final missing person who was aboard the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru. The U.S. Navy searched for nearly three weeks inside the sunken fisheries training ship, which was hit and sunk off Hawaii by the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville in February.

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