Divers to search inside of Ehime Maru at end of Sept.

Divers to search inside of Ehime Maru at end of Sept.

HONOLULU, United States - Adm. Thomas Fargo (L, front), the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet commander, meets Japanese Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (R, front) on Sept. 9 at Hickam Air Force Base on Oahu Island. He told Tanaka that divers will likely be able to start searching the inside of Ehime Maru, a sunken Japanese high school fisheries training ship, at the end of September.

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