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Three men on the back of a boat lower an autonomous underwater vehicle into water.

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Naval Academy Midshipman 1st Class Nolan Brandon, left, Ken Haulsee, center, a graduate student at the University of Delaware, and Peter Barron, a laboratory technician at the University of Delaware, lower an autonomous underwater vehicle into the water off the coast of Long Island, N.Y., to take sonar data on the wreck of the World War I-era armored cruiser USS San Diego, Sept. 11, 2017.

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