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U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John Ricker fights the clock and spraying water while trying to apply a marlin wrap to a ruptured pipe in the pipe patching event at the Damage Control Olympics aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, at port near the Navy's Farrier Fire Fighting School in Norfolk, Va., June 28, 2008.

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U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John Ricker fights the clock and spraying water while trying to apply a marlin wrap to a ruptured pipe in the pipe patching event at the Damage Control Olympics aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, at port near the Navy's Farrier Fire Fighting School in Norfolk, Va., June 28, 2008.

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