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FIGURE O . I 



U. S. S. ARGO (ARS-27) 



'^.i E auxiliary rescue and sal-^ac''e ship, 

 has been extensi'vely altered by the 

 Puget Sound ^idE;p and Drvdock Ccmpany, 

 under contract with the Office of NaTral 

 Research, Operated by the Tiniversity of 

 California's Scripps Trstitution of 

 Oceanot'raphy, the 2,000 ton AKGO is 213 

 feet long and their largest. She 

 carries a six-ton crane, a 45,COO-foot 

 step-down cable, and 25,000 feet of 

 half-inch cable, and was the first 

 research ship sqiilpped with scanning 

 type search sonar, precision depth 

 recorder, and a deepwater echo sounder. 



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