 On 11 February, during an "extremely emotional exchange", the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Thomas B. Fargo, personally apologized to families of the "Ehime Maru" victims, who had arrived in Hawaii the day before.Several of the family members asked that "Ehime Maru" be raised from the ocean floor.Waddle had asked to accompany Fargo to apologize to the victims' families as well, but the COMSUBPAC public affairs office told him that he could not.