An aerial port beam view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS PINTADO (SSN 672) underway while conducting submarine operations off the coast of San Diego. Mounted near the stern is the deep submergence rescue vehicle (DSRV-1) "Mystic", which can provide world-wide, rapid-deployment, all-weather capability for the rescue of survivors of a disabled submarine
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 A. Legare
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Beginning in ancient times, humans sought to operate under the water. The legendary origins of the submarine stretch back to 332 BC with a tale about Alexander the Great being lowered into the sea in a glass barrel to study fish. The submarine concept was thereafter consigned to the backwaters of history for some 1,800 years. This collection presents various submarines: from small and simple to nuclear-powered underwater behemoths.
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Date
28/03/1977
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Source
The U.S. National Archives
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