A number of sailors' bodies that were missing from the collision between USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) and a merchant ship have been found.
A Halethorpe man is among the seven sailors who died when their destroyer collided with a container ship off Japan on Saturday, the U.S. Navy said Sunday.
"Divers were able to access the space and found a number of bodies", the Seventh Fleet said in a statement.
"They did what they were trained to do", said Sykes, who said she hopes her son, from Herrin, Illinois, can come home to be with family as he works through what happened.
Seven U.S. sailors went missing after the USS Fitzgerald collided with a Philippine-flagged container ship early Saturday off Japan's coast.
Three people were medically evacuated to the U.S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka after the collision, including the ship's commanding officer, Bryce Benson, who was reported to be in stable condition, the Navy said. It was questioning crew members of the ACX Crystal, which is operated by the Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen K.K., and was treating the incident as a case of possible professional negligence, said Masayuki Obara, a regional coast guard official.
A significant portion of the crew was asleep at the time of the collision, Aucoin said. The destroyer is salvageable, but repairs probably will take months, he said.
Most of the damage occurred below the waterline in the form of a huge gash to the hull near the ship's keel, which led to a "tremendous" amount of water rushing into two berthing cabins and a machinery room, he said.
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The 154-metre (500-foot) Fitzgerald - commissioned in 1995 and deployed in the Iraq war in 2003 - was pulled by a tugboat back to its base on Saturday in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo.
The US Navy on Monday (June 19) identified all seven sailors killed after their destroyer collided with a container ship off Japan's coast at the weekend, confirming their deaths for the first time. Two other crew members suffered cuts and bruises and were also flown out by helicopter. However, a U.S. Navy spokeswoman said not all of the missing bodies were recovered.
Aucoin was asked if damage on the starboard side indicated the US ship could have been at fault, but he declined to speculate on the cause of the collision.
Trump posted a message Saturday on Twitter expressing his concern for the sailors and his appreciation to Japan for its assistance.
The container ship's left bow was dented and scraped, and accident investigators from the Japanese transport ministry found further damage below its waterline.
The waterways approaching Tokyo Bay are busy with commercial vessels sailing to and from Japan's two biggest container ports in Tokyo and Yokohama.
Naval historians recall possibly the last time a warship was hit by a larger vessel in peacetime was in 1964 off the coast of Australia's New South Wales.
"We are struck by deep sorrow", expressing condolences and sympathy "straight from my heart" to the victims and the injured, Abe said in the statement.
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