Training ship for 3 Iwate high schools launched

Training ship for 3 Iwate high schools launched

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A launching ceremony is held in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 4, 2014, for a new fisheries training ship to be jointly used by three high schools. The schools used to share two training vessels but lost one of them in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku.

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

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.

Training ship for 3 Iwate high schools launched

Training ship for 3 Iwate high schools launched

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A launching ceremony is held in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 4, 2014, for a new fisheries training ship to be jointly used by three high schools. The schools used to share two training vessels but lost one of them in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku. (Kyodo)

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

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.