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04/30/10
Some Naval Academy midshipmen had a chance this week to visit a Navy oceanographic ship. In the process, they got a chance to view some eye-popping technology that can tell skippers whether the water is deep and clear, or shallow and filled with debris and mines. 
Joshua McKerrow - The Capital
Marty Ammond of the Naval Oceanographic Office, shown aboard the USNS Sumner, explains a submersible data collecting device the Navy uses. Most crew members and scientists aboard the Navy’s oceanographic survey ships are either Department of the Navy civilians or defense contractors. The USNS Sumner, one the Navy's seven oceanographic survey ships, is toured by midshipmen as the ship is anchored in the Chesapeake Bay.
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The USNS Sumner is an oceanographic survey ship that carries small boats and individual personal watercraft, which can be used to gather information on landing conditions for Marines and Navy SEALs. Other equipment aboard the ship can tell where enemy submarines may be hiding in deep valleys on the ocean floor. "We are not a research vessel. We...
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