Bereaved relatives, students, teachers and others gathered to mark 25 years since an incident in which a Japanese fisheries high school training vessel was struck by a U.S. nuclear submarine off Hawaii in 2001. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/10/japan/ehime-maru-tragedy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ehimemaru #ehime #highschools #us #hawaii
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@thejapantimes submarines always surface blind. They can hear an engine if it is running but if there is no engine, they have no idea what’s on the surface until they hit it.
That’s why sailing yachts sometimes disappear completely in “submarine exercise areas”