HONOLULU -- The search for the last missing crew member who went down with the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru officially ended Thursday when Japanese divers completed their last dive in the sunken ship.

Divers from the Japanese Government had been spending the past week surveying the ship after U.S. Navy divers spent three weeks looking for the nine men and boys who were lost when the Ehime Maru was struck by the submarine USS Greeneville on Feb. 9.

The Navy found eight bodies. Divers said they are confident the body of Takeshi Mizuguchi, 17, is not on board.

Navy crews are preparing the Ehime Maru to be towed to its final resting place 12 miles south of Barbers Point (see map, below), where it will rest in 6,000 feet of water. A fuel tank must be emptied before the vessel can be moved.