The U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry into the Feb. 9 collision between a Japanese fisheries training ship and a U.S. submarine off Hawaii will submit a final report to the commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet on Saturday, navy sources said Tuesday.
Vice Adm. John Nathman, president of the court, is scheduled to submit the report to Adm. Thomas Fargo after talks with him at a U.S. Navy base in San Diego, the sources said.
The report will recommend whether Cmdr. Scott Waddle, captain of the sub USS Greeneville at the time of the accident, and two other officers should be court-martialed over the collision with the Ehime Maru. Nine people aboard the Japanese vessel were lost at sea.
In addition to Nathman, Rear Adm. Paul Sullivan and Rear Adm. David Stone, who are members of the court, as well as adviser and nonvoting member Rear Adm. Isamu Ozawa of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, will also meet with Fargo on Saturday, sources close to the U.S. Department of Defense said.