Of course we still entertain hopes that there may be some information pertaining to the sonar system that may have been archived by the computer system.

I want to assure all Americans and the people of Japan that the National Transportation Safety Board will conduct a thorough investigation to determine how this accident occurred so that another such tragedy will never, hopefully, occur again.

We're of course interested in their whereabouts, where they were, what they were doing, if they were doing anything.

In fact, they reported two loud noises. At the time of the second loud noise, all the power in the vessel went off and the vessel began to take on water.