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Article: Snag hits salvage of Ehime Maru

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August 23, 2001
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HITTING A SNAG, the Navy has been forced to change the way it will rig the Ehime Maru, sitting in 2,000 feet of water off Diamond Head, before trying to move it closer to shore to search for nine missing Japanese men and boys.

The salvage ship Rockwater 2 returned to port yesterday morning to prepare for a new strategy after attempts to drill under the ship to place lifting plates failed.

Now the Navy plans to lift the stern of the 830-ton Ehime Maru just a few feet to place the rigging necessary to support a specially devised cradle -- a more stressful operation.

The Ehime Maru was struck by the nuclear attack submarine USS Greeneville Feb. 9 as the sub demonstrated a rapid-ascent exercise ...

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