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USNS Capable (T-AGOS-16)
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USNS Capable (T-AGOS-16) was a Stalwart class Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship of the United States Navy
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...
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Stalwart class ships were originally designed to collect underwater acoustical data in support of Cold war
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
anti-submarine warfare
Anti-submarine warfare
Anti-submarine warfare is a branch of naval warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, or other submarines to find, track and deter, damage or destroy enemy submarines....
operations in the 1980s. Ex-USNS Capable is now NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer
Okeanos Explorer
NOAAS Okeanos Explorer is a converted United States Navy ship , now an exploratory vessel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , and will officially launch in 2010. Meanwhile, it is engaging in trial voyages before its maiden voyage planned for the Pacific Ocean, near Indonesia...
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External links
- NVR
- NavSource
- NOAA
- TED Talks Robert Ballard: Exploring the ocean's hidden worlds (video) TED (conference)TED (conference)TED is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading"....
Filmed February 2008 Posted May 2008 18 minutes