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Monitor 2001 059

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Signalman Petty Officer First Class (DV) Ronald Fontes of assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit-ONE, Pearl Harbor, HI, stops at one of the many decompression stops that divers must make while conducting salvage dives both too and from the wreck site of the USS Monitor 240 feet below the ocean surface off the coast of Hatteras, NC. 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 Photographer's Mate Chief Petty Officer (SW/DV) Andrew Mckaskle.

CLF. Det Combat Camera Atlantic.

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