Stardate 20010909.0827 (On Screen): the Navy said last week it was more confident than ever that it would be able to recover the 830-ton wreck from a muddy hole 2,000 feet below the waves. (Referring to the Ehime Maru, the Japanese fishing boat which was sunk by a surfacing US submarine.) Why are they doing this? What is the point of salvaging this ship? Yes, it's bad that a lot of people died on that ship, but raising this hulk won't bring them back.
Apparently the point is to recover bodies and personal effects for the relatives of the dead. I'm sorry folks; I'm trying to be sympathetic here, but the mechanistic atheist in me says that this is superstitious nonsense. A lot of people have died at sea over the years and centuries. It's how things are when you live with the sea. Sometimes nothing returns. (discuss)
