The former skipper of the Greeneville, the U.S. Navy submarine that struck and sank the Ehime Maru off Hawaii in February, believes he was made a scapegoat over the incident, according to a translated first-person account published in a Japanese weekly magazine.
In the Shukan Shincho that hit newsstands Tuesday, former Cmdr. Scott Waddle said he and his crew did everything they were meant to do until the moments leading up to the Feb. 9 collision with the fisheries training vessel and afterward.
Waddle said he had believed that the U.S. Navy would understand this and would strive to protect him and his crew in the aftermath of the incident, in which nine people died.