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February 10, 2001
HONOLULU (AP) — A Navy submarine collided with a commercial boat nine miles off Honolulu Harbor on Friday, and 10 people on the boat were missing. A Navy spokeswoman said a search was being conducted for 10 of the 35 people aboard the boat who were missing. The others had been plucked from the water. The USS Greeneville was on routine operations south of Oahu when it surfaced about 1:45 p.m. and its stern collided with a commercial boat, said Lt. Cmdr. Jane Campbell, spokeswoman for Commander Navy Base, Pearl Harbor. The boat sank after the collision and there were life rafts in the water, Campbell said. There was no visible damage to the submarine, she said. It was not immediately known how many crew were aboard the Greeneville, a Pearl Harbor-based nuclear-powered attack submarine. It was remaining on scene to help in the search for survivors, she said. The survivors were being taken to the Coast Guard station at Honolulu Harbor's Sand Island. In Washington, Navy spokeswoman Lt. Cmdr. Cate Mueller said the U.S. nuclear attack submarine collided with a Japanese vessel while on routine patrol. The Japanese boat sank, she said, but the submarine was not damaged. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said President Bush was told about the incident. Public television NHK in Japan reported that the ship was a training vessel belonging to a vocational fisheries high school in southwestern Japan. The 35 people on board included 15 second-year high school students from the Uwajima Fisheries High School in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Ehime, NHK said. The Greeneville was commissioned in February 1996 and its home port is Pearl Harbor. A Los Angeles-class sub, the Greeneville is 360 feet long, has a diameter of 33 feet and displaces 6,900 tons submerged. It is equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles. |