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Newport's Underwater Operations

TROV S-4 onboard MV Kilsyth during Mediterranean operations, 1978  
Ixtoc I blowout burns on surface in Gulf of Campeche, 1980
   TREC ROV Ixtoc I operations onboard MV Arctic Seal in 1980
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Nekton Alpha manned submersible in Gulf of Mexico 1978  
C. Newport (left), Russ Austin (center), and Glen Tillman (right), in berthing during Taiwan coral harvesting job with SCORPIO I, 1977
  
Fan jet engine from TWA flight 800 being recovered from Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, 1996
         
A better method of maintaining TREC ROVs, 1980  
Space Shuttle Challenger burn through piece on Stena Workhorse, 1986 (note unburned solid rocket fuel on surface of wreckage)
  
         
Tail section of F-16 fighter recovered from 1,500 feet underwater off Japan, 1987  
TWA Flight 800's right wing being lifted aboard USS Grasp, 1996
  
US Navy personnel with main landing gear assembly of TWA Flight 800, 1996
         
Damaged TWA Flight 800 luggage container, 1996  
Navy diver being helped towards surface decompression chamber on TWA Flight 800 salvage operations, 1996
  
HH-60 helicopter being dragged over the side of the USS Grasp in 1998
         
Salvage team posing in front of recovered US Navy Seahawk helicopter, 1998  
Magellan 725 ROV being recovered after diving on the RMS Titanic in 1998
  
Williamson and Associates S/M 30 side scan sonar being launched during the search for the sunken USS Indianapolis, 2000
         
Woody James (left) and Mike Kuryla (right) both survivors of the USS Indianapolis, checking out a model of their ship in 2000  
The view of the beach from the Guam Hilton Hotel during the search for the Indy, 2000
  
Williamson's Donna Johnson processing sonar data on board the MV June T in 2000
         
Oceaneering crew working off Haifa, Israel with the Pinger Locator System (PLS)  
CURV III ROV during HH-60 Seahawk salvage operations off Cape Hatteras in 1998
  
Sea Tractor cable burial vehicle being recovered on board the USNS Zeus, 1997
         
SCARAB II ROV being tested in Shimonoseki, Japan in 1982  
Search personnel hard at work on Williamson's broken cable reel during USS Indianapolis search operations in 2000
  
Phoenix II ROV mobilization in Singapore, 1996
     
The bow of the Atlantic Target wooden sailing ship as seen from Mir 1 at 4,800 meters depth in 2001  
Atlantic Target as it appears on a Simrad scanning sonar, 2001
  
A hydraulic manipulator from Mir I carefully recovers a wooden sextant from the stern of the unidentified sailing ship, 2001
         
Dr. Anatoly Sagalevitch pilots Mir I at 4,800 meters in 2001   C. Newport inside Mir I brandishing the Explorer's Club flag in 2001  
A fragment of the newspaper, "St. James's Workhouse," dated 1809 and recovered in 2001 after almost 200 years underwater

 

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