MV Carolyn Chouest
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MV Carolyn Chouest is a chartered submarine support ship for the U.S. Navy
assigned to the Special Missions Program to support the NR-1 Deep Submergence Craft
. She tows the NR-1 between work areas, serves as a floating supply warehouse and provides quarters for the extra crewmembers.
airplane crash 60 miles south of Nantucket, MA
. She provided underwater mapping of the debris field using the side-scan sonar and recorded underwater video of the site with the ROV Magnum.
February 2002, the Navy's special purpose research submarine NR-1 and Carolyn Chouest helped archeologists to chart the , the Navy's first ironclad warship, as she rest 250' below the sea.
October 2004, Carolyn Chouest helped tow HMCS Chicoutimi
back to Faslane
, after a fire on board the Canadian submarine killed one crewman and injured two, 100 miles off Ireland
.
December 2006, the fast-attack submarine, resurfaced during sea trials after a 25-year-old Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
employee began having neurological problems. He was safely transferred to Carolyn Chouest and continued to receive treatment by Pittsburgh's corpsman until medevaced by a Coast Guard
helicopter.
March 2007, NR-1 and Carolyn Chouest under the direction of oceanographer Robert Ballard
began mapping the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary
to help scientists determine where early Americans might have lived when, at the height of the last ice age, sea levels were nearly 400 feet lower than they are today.
United States Navy
The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
assigned to the Special Missions Program to support the NR-1 Deep Submergence Craft
NR-1 Deep Submergence Craft
The Deep Submergence Vessel NR-1 was a unique United States Navy nuclear-powered ocean engineering and research submarine. It was built by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics at Groton, Connecticut. It was launched on January 25, 1969, completed its initial sea trials August 19, 1969,...
. She tows the NR-1 between work areas, serves as a floating supply warehouse and provides quarters for the extra crewmembers.
Operational history
November 1999, Carolyn Chouest assisted recovery efforts after the EgyptAir Flight 990EgyptAir Flight 990
EgyptAir Flight 990 was a regularly scheduled flight from Los Angeles International Airport, California to Cairo International Airport, Egypt, with a stop at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York...
airplane crash 60 miles south of Nantucket, MA
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Nantucket is an island south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the United States. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the town of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the coterminous Nantucket County, which are consolidated. Part of the town is designated the Nantucket...
. She provided underwater mapping of the debris field using the side-scan sonar and recorded underwater video of the site with the ROV Magnum.
February 2002, the Navy's special purpose research submarine NR-1 and Carolyn Chouest helped archeologists to chart the , the Navy's first ironclad warship, as she rest 250' below the sea.
October 2004, Carolyn Chouest helped tow HMCS Chicoutimi
HMCS Chicoutimi (SSK 879)
HMCS Chicoutimi is a Victoria-class long-range hunter-killer submarine of the Royal Canadian Navy, originally built and operated by the Royal Navy as HMS Upholder....
back to Faslane
HMNB Clyde
Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy...
, after a fire on board the Canadian submarine killed one crewman and injured two, 100 miles off Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
.
December 2006, the fast-attack submarine, resurfaced during sea trials after a 25-year-old Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard , often called the Portsmouth Navy Yard, is a United States Navy shipyard located in Kittery on the southern boundary of Maine near the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is used for remodeling and repairing the Navy's ships...
employee began having neurological problems. He was safely transferred to Carolyn Chouest and continued to receive treatment by Pittsburgh's corpsman until medevaced by a Coast Guard
Coast guard
A coast guard or coastguard is a national organization responsible for various services at sea. However the term implies widely different responsibilities in different countries, from being a heavily armed military force with customs and security duties to being a volunteer organization tasked with...
helicopter.
March 2007, NR-1 and Carolyn Chouest under the direction of oceanographer Robert Ballard
Robert Ballard
Robert Duane Ballard is a former United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology. He is most famous for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989,...
began mapping the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary
Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary
The Flower Garden Banks is a U.S. National Marine Sanctuary in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, located roughly 105 miles south of Sabine Pass, Texas....
to help scientists determine where early Americans might have lived when, at the height of the last ice age, sea levels were nearly 400 feet lower than they are today.
