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| A crew member on the American nuclear submarine which rammed and sank a Japanese trawler has said he was not able to track nearby ships because civilian guests were crowding the control room. The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that the nuclear-powered submarine had actually detected the Japanese fishing vessel 71 minutes before the collision off the coast of Hawaii. The BBC's Nick Childs reports:
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