{"id":88815,"date":"2017-02-10T02:35:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T07:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88815"},"modified":"2017-02-10T02:35:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T07:35:37","slug":"9-killed-when-us-sub-hit-japanese-fishing-ship-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/10\/9-killed-when-us-sub-hit-japanese-fishing-ship-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"9 killed when US sub hit Japanese fishing ship remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_88816\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88816\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ISS-43_Honolulu_Hawaii.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88816\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ISS-43_Honolulu_Hawaii.jpg\" alt=\"Families and friends of nine people killed when a U.S. Navy submarine accidentally rammed into a Japanese fishing ship off Hawaii 16 years ago remembered their loved ones at a ceremony Thursday. (Photo by NASA\/Scott Kelly [Public domain],)\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ISS-43_Honolulu_Hawaii.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ISS-43_Honolulu_Hawaii-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ISS-43_Honolulu_Hawaii-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families and friends of nine people killed when a U.S. Navy submarine accidentally rammed into a Japanese fishing ship off Hawaii 16 years ago remembered their loved ones at a ceremony Thursday. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AISS-43_Honolulu%2C_Hawaii.jpg\">NASA\/Scott Kelly [Public domain],<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>HONOLULU\u2014Families and friends of nine people killed when a U.S. Navy submarine accidentally rammed into a Japanese fishing ship off Hawaii 16 years ago remembered their loved ones at a ceremony Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Those killed were on board the Ehime Maru, a training vessel for fisheries students from Ehime, Japan. The submarine&#8217;s rudder sliced into the ship&#8217;s hull some 6 miles offshore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom critical sadness Ehime and Hawaii united to form a special bond, with a commitment to work towards the beneficial exchanges of goodwill, friendship and understanding,\u201d Hawaii Gov. David Ige told more than 100 people gathered for the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s ceremony carried special significance under Buddhist custom because it marked the start of the 17th year since the deaths\u2014a special time for healing and remembrance.<\/p>\n<p>Buddhist tradition counts the moment of death as the first year of passing.<\/p>\n<p>A Navy investigation found the USS Greenville&#8217;s captain had rushed through mandatory safety procedures while demonstrating an emergency surfacing drill for the benefit of civilians touring the submarine.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the captain didn&#8217;t want the submarine to be late returning to Pearl Harbor with the 16 guests.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy uses the Ehime Maru accident as a case study to teach prospective submarine officers what not to do.<\/p>\n<p>It prompted the service to change the way squadron commanders monitor their submarines with the hope that supervision will prevent future collisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU\u2014Families and friends of nine people killed when a U.S. Navy submarine accidentally rammed into a Japanese fishing ship off &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":88816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[15006],"class_list":["post-88815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-japanese-fishing-ship","mauthors-audrey-mcavoy","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}