Sapporo – Preparations to salvage a tour boat that sank off Hokkaido last month, leaving 14 dead and 12 people missing, were completed Saturday.
The raising of the 19-ton Kazu I will take place early next week. The boat, which currently sits on the seabed some 120 meters below the surface, went missing off the Shiretoko Peninsula on April 23.
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