Japanese government officials said the incident resulted in minor injuries and damage to the antenna mast and communications equipment as a result of the incident. The crew was forced to use a mobile phone to report the accident.
Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said the clash outside Kochi prefecture was “extremely regrettable.” The crew of the submarine, which participated in the exercise, saw the vessel through the periscope, but could not maneuver in time, the minister said.
Reference. Soryu is a diesel-electric submarine that has been in service with Japan since 2009. Its length is 84 m, and its underwater displacement is 4100 tons.
According to Japanese officials, the damage was minor and the sub was able to continue sailing on its own. However, former US Navy captain Bradley Martin, who was approached by the British agency for comment, said he “would not call the damage minor – the submarine cannot dive and cannot communicate.”
The commercial vessel, according to the chief secretary of the Japanese Cabinet of Ministers Katsunobu Kato, was not damaged by the collision.
The Japan Times reports that the submarine’s crew was unable to report the incident for more than three hours.
According to sources in the Coast Guard, the commercial vessel is a Hong Kong-flagged dry cargo vessel Ocean Artemis, on board of which there are about 20 crew members from the PRC.
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