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CHINA-HUBEI-YICHANG-YANGTZE RIVER-STURGEON-RELEASE (CN)

(240328) -- YICHANG, March 28, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Staff members implant sonar emitters in Chinese sturgeons in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province, March 28, 2024. More than 200,000 second filial generation Chinese sturgeons were released into the Yangtze River on Thursday to increase wild stocks of the rare species. (Xinhua/Wu Zhizun)

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CHINA-HUBEI-YICHANG-YANGTZE RIVER-STURGEON-RELEASE (CN)

(240328) -- YICHANG, March 28, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Staff members implant sonar emitters in Chinese sturgeons in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province, March 28, 2024. More than 200,000 second filial generation Chinese sturgeons were released into the Yangtze River on Thursday to increase wild stocks of the rare species. (Xinhua/Wu Zhizun)

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Sonar analyst says he didn't know Ehime closing on sub

HONOLULU, United States - A sonar analyst on the U.S. submarine which hit and sank a Japanese fisheries training ship off Hawaii on Feb. 9 testifies on March 19 that the crowding of civilian VIPs in the sub's control room was not why he failed to alert the captain at a key juncture that the ship was less than 4,000 meters away and closing. Rather, Petty Officer 1st Class Patrick Seacrest told the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry, he was simply unaware that the two vessels were on a collision course because he was focusing on a new surface contact the sub's sonar had picked up.

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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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Nuclear sub Columbia's command room shown to reporters

HONOLULU, United States - Photo shows the command room of the U.S. submarine Columbia, which is similar to that of the Greeneville that sank the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii on Feb. 9. The U.S. Navy showed the room to reporters in Honolulu on Feb. 25. The top screen shows the view above the surface as seen through the periscope, and the bottom one displays data from the sonar system.

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Handling of sonar data likely focus of Hawaii sub crash probe

HONOLULU, United States - U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) official John Hammerschmidt says in a recent interview with Kyodo News that the handling of sonar data by the crew of the U.S. submarine which hit and sank a Japanese fisheries training ship on Feb. 9 is likely to be a focal point of investigations into the accident from now on.

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Sub's sonar caught Ehime Maru's noise at least 3 times

HONOLULU, United States - The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Greeneville, docked for checkups Feb. 21, bears scars on its port-side hull. The Greeneville's sonar detected noise from the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru at least three times before it surfaced underneath it Feb. 9, sources close to the case told Kyodo News on Feb. 21.

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CHINA-SHANGHAI-ANCIENT SHIPWRECK-SALVAGE (CN)

(220302) -- SHANGHAI, March 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Handout photo shows a sonar scan taken in 2021 of Yangtze No. 2 Ancient Shipwreck . Salvage of a 160-year-old shipwreck, the largest and best-preserved wooden shipwreck discovered underwater in China to date, began Wednesday. This sunken ship, with a large number of cultural relics, was a merchant vessel during the reign of Emperor Tongzhi (1862-1875) in the Qing Dynasty period. Named Yangtze No. 2 Ancient Shipwreck, the ship was found submerged at a depth of 5.5 meters below the seabed in the waters of Hengsha shoal in the northeast of Hengsha island in Shanghai's Chongming District. (Shanghai Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage/Handout via Xinhua)

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US General Milley Defends 'Reassurance' Phone Calls To China

Handout photo dated March 5, 2021 of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley learns how submariners use sonar to track contacts aboard the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) during a tour. Believing Trump had a mental decline in his final days in the office, General Mark Milley reportedly called his Chinese counterpart and assured calling him in advance if the president would have ordered an attack. he top US military officer on Wednesday defended the phone calls he made to his Chinese counterpart in the turbulent final months of Donald Trump's presidency, saying the conversations were intended to convey reassurance to the Chinese military and were in line with his responsibilities as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Amanda Gray via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Down Periscope (1996)

Lauren Holly & Harland Williams Characters: Lt. Emily Lake, Diving Officer,Seaman 2nd Class E.T. 'Sonar' Lovacelli Film: Down Periscope (USA 1996) Director: David S. Ward 01 March 1996 Date: 01 March 1996

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Coast guard sonar finds object same length as sunken ship

TOKYO, Japan - Crew members of Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Izu prepare a remote-controlled underwater TV camera on Feb. 26 to probe an object detected in the East China Sea. The object, found on the seabed by a floating sonar device, is about the same length as the unidentified ship that sank there last December after exchanging fire with Japanese patrol ships. The photo was provided by the coast guard.

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Rugby: World Cup promotions

Members of Japanese music group Sonar Pocket (back row), Japanese idol girl group SKE48 (front row) and calligrapher Kiyomi Yano (holding rugby ball) pose for a photo with a promotional billboard for the Rugby World Cup in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 2, 2019. The two groups and Yano have been chosen as special supporters for four World Cup matches being held at Toyota Stadium in the same prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Capsized fishing boat in western Japan possibly found: Coast Guard

A Japan Coast Guard vessel and a Fisheries Agency vessel search for a capsized fishing boat in the Sea of Japan off the city of Matsue on Dec. 15, 2016. The Japan Coast Guard said the same day it may have found the boat with sonar equipment detecting what appeared to be the submerged vessel. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sonar analyst says he didn't know Ehime closing on sub

HONOLULU, United States - A sonar analyst on the U.S. submarine which hit and sank a Japanese fisheries training ship off Hawaii on Feb. 9 testifies on March 19 that the crowding of civilian VIPs in the sub's control room was not why he failed to alert the captain at a key juncture that the ship was less than 4,000 meters away and closing. Rather, Petty Officer 1st Class Patrick Seacrest told the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry, he was simply unaware that the two vessels were on a collision course because he was focusing on a new surface contact the sub's sonar had picked up.

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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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Nuclear sub Columbia's command room shown to reporters

HONOLULU, United States - Photo shows the command room of the U.S. submarine Columbia, which is similar to that of the Greeneville that sank the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii on Feb. 9. The U.S. Navy showed the room to reporters in Honolulu on Feb. 25. The top screen shows the view above the surface as seen through the periscope, and the bottom one displays data from the sonar system.

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Handling of sonar data likely focus of Hawaii sub crash probe

HONOLULU, United States - U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) official John Hammerschmidt says in a recent interview with Kyodo News that the handling of sonar data by the crew of the U.S. submarine which hit and sank a Japanese fisheries training ship on Feb. 9 is likely to be a focal point of investigations into the accident from now on.

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Sub's sonar caught Ehime Maru's noise at least 3 times

HONOLULU, United States - The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Greeneville, docked for checkups Feb. 21, bears scars on its port-side hull. The Greeneville's sonar detected noise from the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru at least three times before it surfaced underneath it Feb. 9, sources close to the case told Kyodo News on Feb. 21.