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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Diving</title>
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		<title>Va. Beach NECC unit nabs Sloan Award</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/02/04/va-beach-necc-unit-nabs-sloan-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Diving and Salvage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The top 20 percent. That&#8217;s where Explosive Ordnance Disposal Training and Evaluation Unit 2 now finds itself in terms of public AND private employers in terms of programs, policies and culture for creating an effective and flexible workplace. EODTEU 2, located in Virginia Beach, Va., received the 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The left of boom</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/29/the-left-of-boom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Former President Bill Clinton didn&#8217;t just say &#8220;they&#8221; need to blow up the still-gushing Deepwater Horizon well, or that &#8220;we&#8221; should &#8212; he said &#8220;the Navy&#8221; would have to do it. All right. Fortunately it&#8217;s got just the guys for this job, guys with high-speed dive gear and cool tattoos who belong to the Mobile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Career advice from a Navy legend</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/13/career-advice-from-a-navy-legend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diving]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck spent an awesome morning with retired Capt. (Dr.) Don Walsh, pilot of the bathyscaphe Trieste, which recorded the deepest dive any man has made. He and Jacques Piccard on Jan. 23, 1960 dove 35,797 feet (6.8 miles) into the deepest known part of any ocean, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. (Navy Times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The coolest business card ever</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/13/the-coolest-business-card-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/13/the-coolest-business-card-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck has seen many titles on business cards &#8212; commander, director, secretary, chairman &#8230; but never one as good as the one we received today: Scoop Deck spent an awesome morning with retired Capt. (Dr.) Don Walsh, pilot of the bathyscaphe Trieste, which recorded (by far) the deepest dive any man has made. More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A long way to go</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/15/a-long-way-to-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a look at what the Navy and the Army are up against in rebuilding the earthquake-damaged pier in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The pilings are barely there. The repair work could take months to complete.]]></description>
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		<title>The only way to travel</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/09/the-only-way-to-travel/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/09/the-only-way-to-travel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shore duty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician 2nd Class Edwin Sharpe has come up with an elegant solution to a problem that has plagued military rear ends since 1957, when the C-130 Hercules made its debut with the U.S. military. Sure, it&#8217;s a useful aircraft, but it can be less than&#8230; ah&#8230; comfortable to sit on a mesh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Spru-can chops into Davy Jones&#8217; AOR</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/20/another-spru-can-chops-into-davy-jones-aor/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/20/another-spru-can-chops-into-davy-jones-aor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naval Sea Systems Command announced Thursday it&#8217;s transferring one of the fleet&#8217;s best-known Spruance-class destroyers to the state of Delaware so it can be turned into an artificial reef. It&#8217;s the beginning of the end for the destroyer Arthur W. Radford, also known as &#8220;The Finger.&#8221; Although final details for the transfer still must be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What lurks beneath?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/21/what-lurks-beneath/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/21/what-lurks-beneath/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diving]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local fishermen in search of some record large-mouth bass in a San Diego-area lake last winter found something else on their electronic fish finder: A World War II carrier bomber. A cursory look determined the airplane is a Curtiss SBC2 Helldiver, a daring dive-bomber that apparently had made an emergency landing into Lower Otay Reservoir, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yer welcome, fishies</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/03/yer-welcome-fishies/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/03/yer-welcome-fishies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diving]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So ye need a cruiser pulled off the reef, do ye? Yer lookin&#8217; fer downed World War II aircraft, eh? And now ye got some fish doors what needs closed? Here&#8217;s yer answer: Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 1 Just when ye thought ye&#8217;d seen Navy divers pitching in for some of the unlikeliest jobs [...]]]></description>
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