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Furuya 160" 159" 158' Kaua'i NPihau ami iH Location: 9 miles south of Diamond Head Tiroe: 1:45 p.m. No. aboard Ehime Maru: 35 No. rescued: 26 No. unaccounted for: 9 Navy 2 ships 1 sub (Greeneville) 1 plane 1 helicopter Coast Guard 1 helicopter 1 rescue aircraft 3 cutters Collision at sea The USS Greeneville surfaced underneath the Ehirne Mam, a Japanese training vessel.

What happened, according to Coast Guard officials who talked with survivors: ,1 r4 Victims below? Several of the missing the Ehime Maru below, in the engine room; when the collision occurred. a mii'tm'tm v- si; Ship struck The Greeneville strikes the hull of the Ehime Maru while surfacing, possibly with its stern, according to a Navy spokesman. Electrical power to the Ehime Maru is lost. The exact positions of the vessels the time of impact are unknown. Sources: U.S.

Navy, Advertiser research from were fS Accident while (surfacing a real fear By Dan Nakaso Advertiser Staff Wr(ter A temporarily blinded periscope. A boat sitting idle on the surface that sonar cannot detect. Rough seas. Human error. All can be factors that help steer a state-of-the-art Navy submarine into a collision.

It has happened before. Ken Hartung was a sailor aboard the fast-attack submarine USS Permit in 1965 when it rose to periscope depth just outside the Golden Gate Bridge and smashed a hole through a freighter drifting on the surface. Hartung, who served on ftve Navy submarines and had been chief of the watch, Is willing to bet that the same kind of conditions were present yesterday when the USS Greeneville smashed into the Ehime Maru. "I've been in that situation," said Hartung, who lives in Port Orchard, 10 miles from the naval shipyard in Bremerton. "Here you are proceeding along and all of a See FEAR, A3 4 Sections, 44 Pages :1.

Sonar search 2. Sub rises to periscope depth, about 56 feet from the surface. 3. After visual survey of surface, sub rises. at 157' 150" 155" Motoka'I Um1 Kaho'olawe Hawaii 0 Statute miles USS Greeneville Los Angeles class submarine Length: 362 feet Ehime Mara Japanese training vessel Length: 174 feet "After the first boom the ship sank in 10 minutes," the Ehime Main's captain told Coast Guard Petty Officer and translator Mike Carr.

"It sank straight dowa It just settled straight down." Nine people three crew members, two teachers and four cadets remained unaccounted for in the waters off O'ahu early today. The Pearl Harbor-based submarine struck and sank the 174-foot Japanese high school training vessel with 35 people aboard yesterday after-noon. See SUBMARINE, A2 GREG TAYLOR. STEPHEN DOWNES The Honolulu Advertiser Damaged ship sank within 10 minutes By Mike Gordon and Jennifer (filler Advertiser Staff Writers A Pearl Harbor-based nuclear submarine surfacing off O'ahu yesterday sliced through the hull of a Japanese high school training ship with 35 people aboard, sinking the vessel within minutes. Nine people from the training ship were missing and presumed dead last night.

The collision, one of the worst peacetime U.S. submarine accidents in recent history, elicited an immediate statement of regret from the U.S. Navy and promises of a full investigation. Rescue teams from the Navy and the Coast Guard said they would search through the night and today for the nine people missing after the 1:45 p.m. collision between the 360-foot USS Greeneville and the Ehime Maru, a 174-foot fishing vessel.

They were searching a 300-squ are-mile area into the night. "As long as there's a chance survivors are out there, we will continue to search," Coast Guard commander Dee Norton said. "The ships will remain out all night." Norton said the three-deck training ship sank in 18,000 feet of water about nine miles south of Diamond Head. Crew members said they heard a thud and felt a shudder pass through the See SINK, A3 On the Web: For video of the Coast Guard rescue effort in the sinking of the Ehime Maru, visit: www.honoluluadvertiser.com air conditioner on the ship had sped up their plans. This wasn't the way it was supposed to turn out.

Children in a Japanese orphanage had sent good luck letters to one student on the ship, a boy named Daisuke Shinoto who had been raised See WAIT, A2 -Jj i J-k mmm. Ship sinks The Ehime Maru, taking on water evenly, sinks straight down in 10 minutes. 1 parents of those on the ship and called to tell them what he knew: that it had been struck by a U.S. Navy submarine. He also told them what he didn't know: whether their children were alive or dead.

Then he made plans to fly to Hawai'i to find out for himself. Thirteen of his students half of the school's second- By Jennifer Killer Advertiser Staff Writer In the frantic final moments of the Ehime Maru, crew members heard a loud thump and felt a shudder move through the hull. The power was lost, the lights went out and water poured into the ship, nine miles off Diamond Head. Rushing water swept one person from the deck. Soaked in diesel fuel, they struggled off the vessel and clung to six life rafts set adrift in 6- to 8-foot seas.

Within minutes, their ship was gone. year ocean engineering class of 16- and 17-year-olds had been on board the 174-foot Ehime Maru. They left Japan on Jan. 10 from the Misaki port in Kana-gawa prefecture to do research on fishing tuna, swordfish and shark. They had practiced fishing techniques and throwing nets in U.S.

Coast Guard photo A U.S. Coast Guardsman, left, keeps watch on three survivors of the Ehime Maru as the USS Greeneville, background, continues to search for other survivors of the collision. Classified Dll-20 Comics G6 Crosswords C2 Movie ads f-5 Obituaries B2 Stocks Bf TV listings C4 school anxiously awaits news of students on boat Japanese By Tanya Bricking Advertiser Staff Writer Phones lit up as the weekend began at a school board office in Japan with callers frantic to find out who was among the missing. At Uwajima Fisheries High School in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Ehime, the waters south of the Hawaiian Islands. By Tuesday they made it to port at Pier 9 in Honolulu Harbor, next to Aloha Tower, where they stopped for four days of sightseeing and shopping.

Yesterday was to be the day they headed home. They were ahead of their original schedule. A problem with an all they could do was wait. Four 17-year-old students, two teachers and three crew members were counted among the missing from the Ehime Maru longline training vessel that sank yesterday off the coast of O'ahu. At the school of 200 students, Principal Ietaka Horita went down the phone list of 0 A Gannett Newspaper I 4 fa.