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At sea aboard USS Guardian (MCM 5) Jan. 28, 2002 -- A crew member prepares to give the order for a Side Scanning Sonar "fish" to be lowered into the ocean off the coast of Japan.  The "Fish" is a portable device, which provides ships the ability to conduct precision bottom mapping operations of ports and the ocean floors, critical when planning mine countermeasure operations.  USS Guardian is an "Avenger" class mine countermeasures ship designed as mine hunter-killers capable of finding, classifying and destroying a wide variety of deployed mines. Guardian is forward deployed to Sasebo, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Journalist Seaman Wes Eplen (RELEASED)
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Photo description

Photo Date
 January 28, 2002
Photographer
 Journalist Seaman Wes Eplen
Caption Writer
 Mr. C. J. Madden Dir.ector, NVNS
Copyright Status
 Public domain / free use
Service Branch
 US Navy
Primary Equipment
 MCM 5
Other Visible Equipment
 Not available
Plane Number
 Not available
Base
 Not available
Tail Code
 Not available
Squadron
 Not available
Comments/Notes
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