The sailors have since been identified as Dakota Kyle Rigsby, Shingo Alexander Douglass, Ngoc T Truong Huynh, Noe Hernandez, Carlos Victor Ganzon Sibayan, Gary Leo Rehm Jr., and Alec Martin.
"As search and rescue crews gained access to the spaces that were damaged during the collision this morning, the missing Sailors were located in the flooded berthing compartments", the Navy said in a statement Sunday morning local time.
ACX Crystal, the Philippine-flagged merchant vessel that was damaged after colliding with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald, is seen at a port in Yokohama, Japan in this photo taken by Kyodo on June 19, 2017.
Standing before the severely damaged USS Fitzgerald at the vessel's home port in Yokosuka, Japan on June 18, 7th Fleet commander Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin praised the vessel's crew for their heroic and swift action in response to the destroyer's collision with a commercial ship last week.
Sykes says her son told her that the men sleeping on bunks above and below him died, while three died in the berth above his.
She said the family moved to CT was Huynh was in eighth-grade. "You have to realize majority are 18, 19 and 20-year-olds living with guilt".
Acting Secretary of the Navy Sean Stackley promised a full investigation into the collision.
Other investigations could come from the Japanese and Philippine authorities because of where the accident took place and the Philippine registry of the container ship. The collision tore a gash under the warship's waterline, and should have foundered or even sunk but for the crew's desperate efforts to save the ship, he said.
According to the 3rd Regional Coast Guard Headquarters in Yokohama, each day some 400 vessels go through the area and there are a lot of accidents there. Bryce Benson, who was transferred to the hospital in Yokosuka "and is reportedly in stable condition", the 7th Fleet said in a statement.
The cargo ship is about four times heavier than the Fitzgerald. "They are known as the "Fighting Fitz", and the crew lived up to that name", the admiral added.
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"We hope all United States warships in the West Pacific should draw a lesson from the incident, not only for their own safety, but also for the peace of the sea passages in the region", it said in its editorial on 19 June.
Two other sailors were also evacuated and treated for lacerations and bruises, while crew were still assessing the other injured.
"You can't see most of the damage", he explained.
Some ship trackers showed the container ship making a U-turn before the collision, a move that has raised questions about what happened.
There are now multiple investigations into the accident, from both the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard as well as the Japan's Coast Guard and its Transport Safety Board.
Japanese coastguard investigators will be interviewing the Filipino crew of the Japanese-owned container ship, although the USA has primary jurisdiction in investigating accidents involving military.
NYK and the ship's owner are cooperating with a Japan coast guard investigation into the collision, the shipping firm said.
Initially, five sailors were reported injured and seven sailors were reported missing, though the remains of those sailors have since been found.
"I express my heartfelt solidarity to America at this hard time", Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday in response to the accident at sea. "We are struck by deep sorrow", Abe said in the message.
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