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Page 22. MAINE COASTAL NEWS March 2017 U S N N


Irene Franke, wife of former Secretary of the Navy William B. Franke. The ship was put to sea in 1961 and safely steamed more than 1 million nautical miles on nuclear power over its entire career of more than 50 years. Key-note speaker Rear Adm. Bruce


Lindsey, commander, Naval Air Force, Atlantic, used his own experiences aboard Enterprise to emphasize the unmatched adaptability and capability of not just this ship but of all nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.


Though Enterprise’s history is long and


fi lled with numerous successful deploy- ments, Beltz off ered highlights from a letter written by Adm. James Holloway III, En- terprise’s third commanding offi cer, which looked toward the future of the namesake in the proposed construction of the ninth Enterprise, CVN 80. “As this ship retires,” Beltz recited,


“we know the memory will live beyond her and we--the Sailors, the shipbuilders, the supporters of Enterprise--we are that link to the next Enterprise.”


Future USS Rafael Peralta Delivered to the Navy


From Team Ships Public Aff airs


BATH, Maine (NNS) -- The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of future guided-missile destroyer USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115) during a ceremony Feb. 3. Rafael Peralta is the fi rst Arleigh Burke-


PANAMA CITY, Fla. (Jan. 23, 2017) Chief Warrant Offi cer 5 Ray Schubert, command diving offi cer at the Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU), stows his belongings into the Ocean Simulation Facility where he will be one of six Sailors being compressed to a depth of 500 feet for the fi rst saturation dive in 10 years. The saturation dive will accomplish two goals: the


fi rst is to evaluate, test, and certify the new HELICOM Matrix which is a system that returns speech patterns to normal after the breathing of helium to enable better communication after breathing mixed gasses, and the second will be a training scenario to maintain qualifi cations for saturation diving.


(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Fred Gray IV/Released)


class destroyer constructed at the General Dynamics-Bath Iron Works shipyard since the program was restarted in 2010. DDG 115 is the second restart ship to deliver to the Navy, following delivery of future USS John Finn (DDG 113) from Huntington Ingalls Industries in December 2016. The Navy accepted delivery of Rafael


Peralta following a series of at-sea and pierside trials which demonstrated the ship’s operational readiness. “Arleigh Burke-class destroyers con-


tinue to provide the most critical warfi ghting technologies to our Sailors, equipping them with the capabilities they require to meet our missions at sea,” said Capt. Casey Moton, DDG 51 class program manager, Program Executive Offi ce (PEO) Ships. “As the 65th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to join the fl eet, Rafael Peralta will continue the proud legacy of this class.” Rafael Peralta is equipped with the


DISCOUNT POWER TOOLS CORDED POWER TOOLS CORDLESS POWER TOOLS FUELED POWER TOOLS PNEUMATIC POWER TOOLS FASTENERS HAND TOOLS


MATERIAL HANDLING


POWER TOOL ACCESSORIES SAFETY SUPPLIES WELDING SUPPLIES


Aegis Baseline 9 Combat System, which includes an integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) capability incorporating Ballistic Missile Defense 5.0 Capability Upgrade and Naval Integrated Fire Con- trol-Counter Air. The ship’s IAMD radar will provide increased computing power and radar upgrades which improve detection and reaction capabilities against modern air warfare threats. The Aegis Combat System will enable the ship to link radars with other ships and aircraft to provide a composite picture of the battle space and eff ectively increase the theater space. The destroyer honors Sgt. Rafael Per-


alta, one of the most heralded Marines from 2004’s Battle of Fallujah. In November 2010, Peralta pulled a grenade tossed by insurgents towards himself and absorbed most of the blast with his body, thus saving the lives of two fellow marines. He was mortally wounded from the grenade blast. Future USS Rafael Peralta will offi cially join the fl eet during a commissioning ceremony in San Diego later this year. As one of the Defense Department’s


largest acquisition organizations, PEO Ships is responsible for executing the develop- ment and procurement of all destroyers, am- phibious ships, special mission and support ships, and boats and craft.


Navy Experimental Diving Unit Sailors Test New Equipment at 500 Feet By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Fred Gray IV, Naval Support Activi- ty Panama City Public Aff airs


PANAMA CITY, Fla. (NNS) -- Six Sailors assigned to the Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) at Naval Support Activity Panama City (NSAPC) “resurfaced” Feb. 2 after completing an 11-day simulated dive in the Ocean Simulation Facility (OSF) by being compressed to the equivalent of a depth of 500 feet. The NEDU Sailors were decompressed


and released from the OSF after 11 days of training and testing the HeliCom Matrix, a new communications system designed to compensate for helium-infl uenced speech during saturation dives. “The importance of this dive was two-


fold,” said Cmdr. Jay Young, commanding offi cer of NEDU. “First was to test new equipment that we will use in future [satu- ration] dives and validate its operation, and second was to use this scenario as a training opportunity to maintain our profi ciency for our watch teams and our divers to continue our saturation mission here at NEDU. This ensures we are prepared in the event we are called upon to support saturation diving operations in the fl eet.”


NEDU is currently the only U.S. Navy


command capable of conducting saturation diving. Its Sailors use the OSF for testing and evaluation of equipment and procedures used in diving worldwide. While at depth inside the OSF, the


Sailors were breathing a pre-made mixture of 94 percent helium and 6 percent oxygen because normal air becomes toxic at high pressures. The HeliCom Matrix works by


de-scrambling the diver’s voice, which sounds altered while breathing the helium in the mixed gasses used for saturation diving, said Chief Navy Diver Teague Mangiaraci- na.


The gas mixture was made in house


by NEDU personnel three weeks prior to the saturation dive, said Senior Chief Navy Diver Eric Wilson, master diver and team leader of the saturation dive. Pre-planning and pre-mixing allows for hominization and a mixing accuracy within .5 percent. “NEDU is the world’s home for satura-


tion diving,” said Young. “Saturation diving is one of our nation’s critical missions, and to maintain saturation diving capability it’s not just the equipment, it’s the people.”


US Navy Completes Review of Initial Survey Data from World War II Cruiser Wreck Site


From Naval History and Heritage Com- mand, Communication and Outreach Division


WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Naval Histo- ry and Heritage Command has completed a review of initial data acquired from a multi- beam sonar survey of the wreck of World War II cruiser USS Houston (CA 30), Navy offi cials announced Feb. 13. In December, the Australian National


Maritime Museum (ANMM) and the Na- tional Research Centre of Archaeology In- donesia/Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi Nasion- al (ARKENAS) conducted a remote-sensing survey of the wreck sites of Royal Australian navy light cruiser HMAS Perth (D29) and Houston. Both ships were lost in battle during


World War II at Sunda Strait, March 1, 1942, immediately following the Java Sea Campaign. They sunk in what is now Indonesian


waters -- Houston with almost 650 Sailors and Marines, Perth with 353 Sailors.


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