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  • USS San Jacinto Improves Navigational Safety in Persian Gulf

    11/28/2005 4:47:13 PM PST · by SandRat · 2 replies · 263+ views
    Navy NewsStand ^ | Nov 28, 2005 | Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Curt Cooper
    ABOARD USS SAN JANCINTO (NNS) -- USS San Jacinto (CG 56) Sailors improved the navigational safety of the Northern Persian Gulf when they mounted two seven-inch, solar-powered strobe lights on a sunken oil tanker and its marker buoy Nov. 20. The tanker, believed to have sunk during the early 1990s in the first Gulf War, created a significant navigation hazard for small boats and coalition vessels conducting maritime security operations (MSO) in the North Persian Gulf, near the Iraqi Al Basra oil terminal (ABOT). Chief Damage Controlman Frank Ferrantelli, a native of Staten Island, N.Y., and Hull Repair Technician 1st...