U.S. Navy explains Ehime Maru salvage to relatives

UWAJIMA, Japan - U.S. Navy officers on Aug. 18 provide details of the salvaging operation of a Japanese high school fisheries training ship off Hawaii to relatives of those lost in the vessel's sinking by a U.S. nuclear submarine in February. The officers, led by Rear Adm. Robert Chaplin (C), met the relatives in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. The sunken ship Ehime Maru belonged to Uwajima Fisheries High School in Uwajima and many of the nine people missing in the incident were from the area.

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