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A sailor kneels on ice in front of a submarine.

Submarine Sounds

Hector Castillo, a Navy Arctic Submarine Laboratory technician, sets up a hydrophone to communicate with submarines prior to their surfacing through the ice during the multinational maritime Ice Exercise in the Beaufort Sea, March 21, 2018.

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