Keywords: US Navy 020727-N-3725V-002 Sailors breathe oxygen after returning from diving on the USS Monitor.jpg en Off the coast of Cape Hatteras N C Jul 27 2002 -- Hospital Corpsman 1st Class David Keener left and Chief Hull Technician Brad Flemming breathe oxygen in a decompression chamber after returning from a 240 ft dive operation conducted on the sunken civil war-era ironclad ship USS Monitor The famed warship sank during a storm Dec 31 1862 off Cape Hatteras N C while being 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 2002-07-27 020727-N-3725V-002 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 2157 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 Keener family Decompression chambers Built in breathing systems 2002 in North Carolina July 2002 photographs July 2002 in the United States Military people in 2002 27 July Personality rights |