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Coast Guard, DNER conduct dive operations

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Chief Petty Officer Rich Bassin, a machinery technician from the Coast Guard Atlantic Strike Team, directs Nilda Jimenez and Jorge Gomez, divers with the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, toward sunken vessels needing identification in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, Nov. 9, 2017. The Maria ESF-10 PR Unified Command, consisting of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, U.S. Coast Guard, in conjunction with the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Control Board, Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. and Fish & Wildlife Service, is responding to vessels found to be damaged, displaced, submerged or sunken. Part of the ESF-10 mission is protecting sensitive habitat and threatened and endangered species from the impacts of pollution caused by damaged vessels. The ESF-10 is the framework by which federal support is coordinated with state agencies in response to actual or potential oil spills or hazardous material releases. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Lauren Steenson/Released.

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