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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