Harrowing details add to anger
Some thought of the doomed Titanic as their own, ill-fated training vessel sank stern-first beneath them. Others clambered from deck to deck, clinging to the stricken Ehime Maru as best they could until the ocean overwhelmed them.
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| Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Forces, Adm. Dennis Blair answers questions from local, national and international media at Camp Smith yesterday after meeting with Yoshitaka Sakurada, center, parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs of Japan.
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| Hije Ashikaga, a local teacher, embraces one of the survivors before he boards a flight to Japan.
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Somber trips for families, survivors
At the same time a group of survivors from the Ehime Maru quietly boarded the passenger jet that would take them back to Japan yesterday, a sightseeing vessel with families of the missing arrived at the deep waters where the ship sank.
Navy to survey ship's wreckage
An attempt to salvage the Ehime Maru from its resting spot 1,800 feet below sea would be a risky and uncertain operation that could cost from $1 million to $10 million, experts say.
Hopes fading, but search continues
Hope is dimming that any of the nine people missing from the sunken Ehime Maru will be found alive, but it is politically vital that the United States make every effort to search as long as a chance remains.
Students on minds of guard rescuers
When Coast Guard helicopter pilot Jim Seeman heard that a Navy submarine had collided with a Japanese training ship last Friday, his first thought was, "I hope that rafts got deployed."
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