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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97578

USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11)


"...... Bottom view of the towed sled used by the Navy research ship Mizar in the search for the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589). Various types of search and detection equipment can be mounted on this vehicle. Mizar yesterday located objects identified as portions of the hull of the Scorpion at a depth of more than 10,000 feet, about 400 miles southwest of the Azores."
Quoted from the original caption, released with this photograph under date of 31 October 1968.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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30 March 2001