Boeing submersible to survey USS Independence (CVL-22)

A unmanned underwater vehicle from Boeing will dive into the waters of San Francisco to examine the former aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22).

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USS Independence“. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

“To get as detailed sense as we can in doing three dimensional sonar mapping the wreck of the biggest deepest shipwreck we have in the National Marine Sanctuary,” said James Delgado, NOAA’s chief scientist for the USS Independence Mission.

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