Diving Tour Carried Out Despite Forecast of Bad Weather; 50-Year-Old Captain Referred to Prosecution for Suspected of Running Ship Aground

On the 16th, the Naha Coast Guard sent documents to the Naha District Public Prosecutors Office on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in endangerment of traffic, following the grounding of a diving boat off the coast of Kuroshima in the Kerama Islands in December last year. The captain has admitted to the charges. According to the Naha Coast Guard, the captain was conducting a diving boat tour off the coast of Kuroshima in the Kerama…