Families, U.S. Settle Sub Collision Claims
From Times Wire Reports
Lawyers for the families of 33 teachers and students who were on a Japanese boat sunk by a U.S. submarine off Hawaii signed a compensation deal with the U.S. Navy today in Tokyo.
The Navy will pay $13 million, local media reports said. Negotiations between the Navy and two other families continue.
Nine men and teenage boys died when the Greeneville surfaced beneath the Ehime Maru on Feb. 9, 2001, sinking it. The trawler was on a training expedition for a fisheries high school.
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