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Article: Navy heads for shallower waters off Honolulu Airport after raising Ehime Maru

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October 13, 2001
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Buoyed by its success in raising the battered Japanese vessel Ehime Maru, the Navy appears confident that it should be in calmer waters near the Honolulu Airport's reef runway sometime this weekend.

This could mean that unless there are other problems, 60 Navy and several Japanese civilian divers could undertake a search of the Ehime Maru sometime next week for the remains of four teenage boys, two of their teachers and three crewmen missing for the past eight months.

Lt. Cmdr. Gregg Baumann, the Navy's relocation manager, yesterday didn't want to pinpoint exactly when the Rockwater 2 would complete its 16-mile journey to the shallow-water recovery site one mile south of the reef runway. ...

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