A Japanese submersible vehicle sent to assist in the salvage of the Japanese fisheries training vessel Ehime Maru, which sank off Hawaii after being struck by a U.S. submarine in February, will search the seabed to recover the personal effects of the crew, the education ministry said.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology said Friday that the unmanned underwater search vehicle, named Kaiko, will conduct the five-day search in early September, after the salvage operation is completed.
The ship is presently lying on the seabed at a depth of about 600 meters. Once it is moved to a shallow shoal off Honolulu, Kaiko will search an area within a radius of 1 km of the collision site over a period of three days, the ministry said.