USNS Apache TPL Retrieved and Redeployed in the Bahamas

BAHAMAS

10.24.2015

Video by John Kotara 

U.S. Navy           

Contractors from Phoenix International Incorporated and U.S. military members retrieve and redeploy the tow ping locator (TPL 25) aboard USNS Apache (T-ATF 172). USNS Apache departed Norfolk, Va., on Oct. 19 to begin searching for wreckage from the missing U.S. Flagged merchant vessel El Faro. The ship is equipped with several pieces of underwater search equipment, including a voyage data recorder locator, side-scan sonar and an underwater remote operated vehicle. The Navy’s mission will be to first locate the ship and, if possible, to retrieve the voyage data recorder – commonly known as a black box. Produced by MC2 John Paul Kotara II.

• Date Taken: 10.24.2015
• Date Posted: 10.25.2015 18:26
• Category: B-Roll
• Video ID: 430048
• VIRIN: 151024-N-RZ218-001
• Filename: DOD_102826777
• Length: 00:01:47
• Location: BS