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Monitor 2001 043

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PhotographerÕs Mate Petty Officer Second Class (DV) Eric Lippmann, of Decatur, MI, an underwater photographer assigned to CINCLANTFLT Det Combat Camera Atlantic, Norfolk, VA., is lowered to the wreck site of the USS Monitor to photographically document salvage operations with a NIKONOS-V underwater camera. The divers are working from the Derrick Barge WOTAN, the main support vessel for Phase II of the Monitor 2001 expedition, the sixth NOAA-Navy expedition to preserve the historic vessel. The ship went down off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC, in 1862 during a severe storm.

Official U.S. Navy photo by PhotographerÕs Mate Chief Petty Officer (DV/SW) Andrew Mckaskle.

CLF. Det Combat Camera Atlantic

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Uploaded on October 16, 2007
Taken on October 15, 2007