Keywords: US Navy 020727-N-3725V-001 Sailors' depths and times are recorded as they dive down to the civil war era ironclad ship USS Monitor.jpg en Off the coast of Cape Hatteras N C Jul 27 2002 --Boatswain s Mate 2nd Class Mark Chase records divers depths and times as they dive 240 ft to the sunken civil war-era ironclad ship USS Monitor Petty Officer Chase is a Diver with Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 MDSU-2 located aboard the Little Creek Amphibious Base in Norfolk Va The divers of MDSU-2 are aiding in the recovering the ship s gun turret 11-inch Dahlgren cannons and other artifacts from the historic vessel The famed warship sank during a storm Dec 31 1862 off Cape Hatteras N C while towed to Beaufort S C Four officers and 12 men were lost with the ship U S Navy photo by Photographer s Mate 1st Class Chadwick Vann RELEASED For more information go to <a href http //monitor nos noaa gov Target _BLANK >http //monitor nos noaa gov</a> 2002-07-27 020727-N-3725V-001 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 2156 U S Navy photo by Photographer s Mate 1st Class Chadwick Vann PD-USGov-Military-Navy Images from US Navy location Off the coast of Cape Hatteras N C July 2002 photographs |