IRMDS, United States Coast Guard photo
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Lieutenant Chad Naefken of Maritime Operations Group 4, Maritime Forces Pacific, Esquimalt, British Columbia, describes the capabilities and equipment aboard the Dorado, a 30-ft, 7 ton Interim Remote Mine Hunting and Detection System (IRMDS) used for detecting man-made objects up to 700-feet below the surface of the water, to members of New Hampshire media at 10 a.m., today.The annual maritime homeland security exercise, Frontier Sentinel, is taking place in the Northwestern Atlantic. The interagency exercise involves the Canadian and U.S. Naives and the United States Coast Guard, as well as numerous other federal, state and local agencies in the detection, assessment and response to a maritime security threat.U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Seth Johnson
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