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Inspection of Japanese Ship Sunk by U.S. Sub Continues

Aired February 19, 2001 - 10:17 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: We check now the latest on the collision between a U.S. Navy submarine and a Japanese fishing vessel. A second unmanned robot is now inspecting the wreckage of the trawler, which lies under 2,000 feet of water, off the coast of Hawaii.

Let's get more now, from Honolulu, CNN national correspondent Marty Savidge, standing by there.

Good morning, Marty.

MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Morning to you, Leon. Daylight here is about an hour away.

Meanwhile, the Navy is continuing to work on some small technical problems it has with one of its submersibles, that being the Scorpio II. The problem primarily is in the area of the tether. It tore a bladder that is used to support that tether in deep-sea diving. And also, it may have some damage to a thruster. You may remember the Scorpio II is the first submersible from the Navy that was able to bring us the images of the Ehime Maru as it sits on the ocean floor 2,000 feet below, some of the most dramatic pictures that you might see and think of in this particular investigation.

While they make those repairs -- and they hope to have them done today -- there is another submersible that is out there. It is the Deep Drone. It's actually a larger and technically more capable submersible. It has been working through the night. In conjunction out there, they are using a side-scan sonar. And the way this two- -- two-party system sort of works out there is that they use the sonar to scan the area around the vessel, looking for debris or other items and then they send the submersible down to investigate if they find them, keeping in mind, of course, that there are nine crew members from that Japanese training vessel that are still unaccounted for.

So they hope to have both submersibles in operation later today -- Leon.

HARRIS: All right, thanks much, Martin Savidge reporting live this morning from Honolulu.

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