Japan: Submarine crew phone for help after crash

As a career submarine sailor, I can assure you all that if standard protocols for submerging and surfacing are followed, this can not happen. The only exception would be an serious casualty occurred and an emergency surface was required to save the boat.

This has happened to us when the USS Greenville hit the Ehime Maru and killed the 9 fisherman onboard the Maru.

They found the blind spot --