Tokyo ? The families of 33 people who were aboard a Japanese fishing trawler sunk by a U.S. submarine off Hawaii agreed Thursday to a reported $13 million compensation package from the U.S. Navy.

Lawyers representing the families and the U.S. government signed the deal at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. Negotiations between the Navy and two other families are continuing separately.

The U.S. Navy will make a total payment of 1.6 billion yen, or $13 million, according to local media reports. Lawyers’ offices and a U.S. Navy spokesman refused to confirm the amount, citing the relatives’ privacy.

But families said the reconciliation package did little to ease their pain.

“Even if we were to seek and receive large amounts of compensation, we cannot change the fact that we will never see our precious son again,” said parents of victim Takeshi Mizuguchi in a statement released by their lawyer.

Nine men and teen-age boys died when the nuclear-powered USS Greeneville surfaced beneath the trawler Ehime Maru on Feb. 9, 2001, sinking it off the coast of Oahu. The fishing vessel was on a training expedition for students and teachers from Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime state in southwestern Japan.