A federal judge on Friday dismissed without prejudice the latest class action filed by hundreds of U.S. sailors exposed to radiation in the Fukushima, Japan, nuclear disaster, finding a San Diego courtroom isn’t the right place for the case. The class attorney said that since the vast majority of the sailor-plaintiffs were stationed in San Diego and GE designed the
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RV Atlantis, operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, departs today on a mission to locate and recover the Argentine submarine, ARA San Juan, which went missing Nov. 15 with 44 crew members aboard. Atlantis was equipped this week with the U.S. Navy’s cable-operated underwater recovery vehicle (CURV), a 6,400-pound ROV that is equipped with high-resolution camera systems and sonar to detect targets in
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RV Atlantis, operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), was diverted Nov. 21 to help search for the missing Argentine submarine, ARG San Juan, which went missing Nov. 15 while traveling from the port of Ushuaia to the city of Mar del Plata, with 44 crew members aboard. Atlantis was en route to a planned oceanographic mission in the South Atlantic
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The U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) continue search and rescue efforts in the Philippine Sea after a C2-A Greyhound aircraft crashed 500 nmi southeast of Okinawa today. Eight personnel have been recovered from the crash. Eleven total personnel were onboard the aircraft, which was carrying cargo from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni to USS Ronald Reagan, which
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The Unmanned Maritime Systems Program Office is testing as many unmanned vehicles as possible to gain insight into future uses of advanced marine vehicles for operations such as ship-to-shore maneuver, amphibious command and control, communications, amphibious information warfare and more. For example, the Ship-to-Shore Maneuver Exploration and Experimentation Advanced Naval Technology Exercise held in April 2017 showcased Navy and Marine
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The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Newport Division has invited industry and academic institutions to use its virtual submarine (VSUB) to advance submarine technologies in partnership with the U.S. Navy. VSUB is described as “a set of submarine non-propulsion electronic systems including combat control, radio room, periscopes, antennas, sonar, and other systems as well as launchers, weapons, and unmanned vehicles
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