Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board and a preliminary inquiry by a Navy commander have found that the presence of the civilians, including two who occupied control positions when the Greeneville surfaced abruptly, proved a distraction to the crew.
In a statement released on Friday, the safety board reported that the Greeneville remained at periscope depth for only 90 seconds before submerging to a depth of 405 feet and surfacing abruptly by filling its ballast tanks with air.
Investigators testifying before a rare court of inquiry at Pearl Harbor Naval Station over the last week outlined a series of errors by the captain and crew in the moments before the submarine surfaced abruptly and collided with a Japanese trawler called the Ehime Maru.
In parallel efforts to untangle Friday's naval accident off the coast of Hawaii, Navy and civilian investigators spent today debriefing crew members and reviewing logs from the Navy submarine that surfaced abruptly as part of a drill and caused the sinking of a Japanese fishing vessel.
As their lawyers cross-examined Admiral Griffiths on Wednesday and again today, it was clear that their strategy was to identify circumstances that would explain why the officers were not aware that a fishing trawler was nearby when the Greeneville surfaced abruptly in a maneuver called an emergency main ballast blow.
Beyond this, the land surface drops abruptly to a lower terrace where a shallow pond and small streams occur.
Planosols, characterised by a bleached, silt-textured surface horizon abruptly overlying a dense, clayey subsoil, are a very common soil type in Ethiopia.
When the fungal mycelia is grown in culture on a petri dish, the colonies are white, odorless, and typically have a central patch of congested aerial hyphae that grow upward from the colony surface, which abruptly become flattened to submerged, and occasionally form faint zone lines.
The day after the couple's meeting, a video surfaced that abruptly replaced Hadiya in the national mind.
