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MV ''Carolyn Chouest'' is a chartered submarine support ship for the United States Navy assigned to the Special Missions Program to support ''NR-1'', the deep submergence craft. She towed ''NR-1'' between work areas, served as a floating supply warehouse and provided quarters for extra crew until the ''NR-1'' was removed from service in 2008. ==Operational history== In 1995, Dr. Robert Ballard used the ''Carolyn Chouest'' and its sub the ''NR-1'', to explore the wreck of , the sister ship of , which sank off the coast of Greece while serving as a hospital ship during World War I. November 1999, ''Carolyn Chouest'' assisted recovery efforts after the EgyptAir Flight 990 airplane crash south of Nantucket, Massachusetts. She provided underwater mapping of the debris field using the side-scan sonar and recorded underwater video of the site with the ROV ''Magnum''. February 2002, ''NR-1'' and ''Carolyn Chouest'' helped archeologists to chart the , the Navy's first ironclad warship, as she rests below the sea.〔 〕 October 2004, ''Carolyn Chouest'' helped tow back to Faslane, after a fire on board the Canadian submarine killed one crewman and injured two, off Ireland.〔 〕 December 2006, the fast-attack submarine, resurfaced during sea trials after a 25-year-old Portsmouth Naval Shipyard employee began having neurological problems. He was safely transferred to ''Carolyn Chouest'' and continued to receive treatment from ''Pittsburgh''s corpsman until evacuated by a Coast Guard helicopter.〔 〕 March 2007, ''NR-1'' and ''Carolyn Chouest'' under the direction of oceanographer Robert Ballard began mapping the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary to help scientists determine where early Americans might have lived when, at the height of the last ice age, sea levels were nearly lower than they are today. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「MV Carolyn Chouest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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