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Navy divers from Mobile Diving Salvage Unit Two are raised to the deck of the USS Grapple.
After completing 40 minutes of recovery work on the ocean floor U.S. Navy divers from Mobile Diving Salvage Unit Two are raised to the deck of the USS Grapple (ARS 53) at the crash site of Swissair Flight 111 off the coast of Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, on Sept. 13, 1998. U.S. and Canadian forces are working together in the retrieval of victims and aircraft debris from the crash site. Grapple is the U.S. Navy's newest rescue and salvage vessel and can deploy Mobile Underwater Debris Survey System technology, Synthetic Aperture Sonar, and the Laser Electro-Optics Identification System to provide detailed images of the ocean floor.

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