The U.S. Navy said Monday that it had recovered the remains of all 10 sailors missing from the collision between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker near Singapore last week.
The U.S. Navy's Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture-based 7th Fleet said in a statement that navy and marine corps divers had recovered the remains. The divers had been searching flooded compartments in the damaged destroyer since it arrived at a Singapore naval base in the city-state.
The crash of the McCain and the deaths of 10 sailors have shaken the U.S. Navy to its core. It came less than three months after the destroyer USS Fitzgerald's June 17 collision with a Philippine-flagged freighter in the middle of the night off the Izu Peninsula south of Tokyo. Seven U.S. sailors were killed in that accident.