Divers Spot First Body in Sunken Japanese Ship
From Times Wire Reports
Navy divers saw the first body inside the sunken hull of a Japanese fishing vessel that was rammed eight months ago by a U.S. submarine, officials in Honolulu said.
The remains were seen by divers using cameras to survey the Ehime Maru; they had not entered the vessel.
They hoped to recover the body later, said Lt. Commander Gregg Baumann, spokesman for the operation to recover the bodies of nine men and boys who went down with the ship.
Baumann gave few details about the discovery.
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