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  2. USS Scorpion (SSN-589) - Wikipedia

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    USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear-powered submarine that served in the United States Navy, and the sixth vessel, and second submarine, of the U.S. Navy to carry that name. Scorpion was believed to have sunk on 27 May 1968. She is one of two nuclear submarines the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being USS Thresher. [4]

  3. DSV Alvin - Wikipedia

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    6,500 m (21,300 ft) Capacity. 680 kg (1,500 lb) payload. Crew. 3 (1 pilot, 2 scientific observers) Alvin (DSV-2) is a crewed deep-ocean research submersible owned by the United States Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The original vehicle was built by General Mills ' Electronics ...

  4. Glomar Explorer - Wikipedia

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    Glomar Explorer. GSF Explorer, formerly USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193), was a deep-sea drillship platform built for Project Azorian, the secret 1974 effort by the United States Central Intelligence Agency 's Special Activities Division to recover the Soviet submarine K-129. [3][4]

  5. USS Scorpion (SS-278) - Wikipedia

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    10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. 6 forward, 4 aft. 24 torpedoes [6] 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun [6] Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. USS Scorpion (SS-278) – a Gato -class submarine – was the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the scorpion. [1]

  6. Bayesian search theory - Wikipedia

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    Bayesian search theory is the application of Bayesian statistics to the search for lost objects. It has been used several times to find lost sea vessels, for example USS Scorpion, and has played a key role in the recovery of the flight recorders in the Air France Flight 447 disaster of 2009. It has also been used in the attempts to locate the ...

  7. Category:United States submarine accidents - Wikipedia

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    USS Tautog (SSN-639) USS Thomas A. Edison. USS Thresher (SSN-593) USS Tucson (SSN-770) USS Tullibee (SS-284) Categories: Submarine accidents. Submarines of the United States Navy. Maritime incidents in the United States.

  8. Silent Steel - Wikipedia

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    Silent Steel is a 1995 submarine simulator computer game by Tsunami Games.It was created during the influx of interactive movies during the 1990s. The game is composed almost entirely of live-action full motion video, with sparse computer-generated graphics depicting external shots of the boat during torpedo attacks and atmospheric fly-bys.

  9. Robert Ballard - Wikipedia

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    Robert Duane Ballard (born June 30, 1942) is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is noted for his work in underwater archaeology (maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks) and marine geology. He is best known by the general public for the discoveries of the wrecks of ...