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High schoolers compete in all things engineering, including submarine races
June 28, 2019 — This Dover Area High School team of engineer wannabes has competed in events like Punkin Chunkin, a pumpkin-throwing contest, and Battle of the Rockets, but this is their first time at the International Human-Powered Submarine Races at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland. Dover Area High School is in Dover,... MORE

Dover Area High School team from Pennsylvania (from left) Caleb Helbert, Tyler Sengia, Braden Hilbert, Jakub Becker and Skyler Sinclair pose around their submarine, the Cormorant, at the 15th International Submarine Races at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Md., on June 25, 2019.

History and future on display at Carderock during sub races
June 27, 2019 — WEST BETHESDA, Maryland -- This week’s 15th International Human Submarine Races (ISR), held at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, has welcomed teams from all over the world, and here to remind them “where the fleet began” is the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC).Featured at NHHC’s table were posters and displays all detailing... MORE

Eric Ritter, Naval History and Heritage Command

Inside the Chinook II, a University of Victoria human-powered submarine
June 27, 2019 — WEST BETHESDA, Maryland -- Jaryd Middleton, pilot and president of Canada’s University of Victoria’s Submarine Racing Club from British Columbia, Canada, was once a part of a submarine team populated with senior students when he was just entering college. Many of them have now graduated, ushering in a new era of young science, technology,... MORE

University of Victoria Submarine Racing Club team members

Meet the Team – Texas A&M University
June 27, 2019 — WEST BETHESDA, Maryland -- Nearly 100 years ago, the story of the Texas A&M University’s “12th Man” was born. The long-respected tradition for college sports fans across the nation is a way of life in College Station, Texas, that has made its way to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland.Texas A&M returns to... MORE

Members of Texas A&M University’s submarine team work on 12th Manatee

Kids into Discovering Science bring a taste of Maryland to Carderock
June 27, 2019 — WEST BETHESDA, Maryland -- The Kids into Discovering Science (KIDS) team from Accokeek, Maryland, is handing out packets of Old Bay Seasoning to anyone who stopped to take a picture in their photo booth at the 15th International Human-Powered Submarine Races at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland. The... MORE

Team members from the Kids into Discovering Science program in Maryland pose with their handmade props for the photo booth under their tent at the 15th International Human-Powered Submarine Races on June 25, 2019.

Carderock engineer’s daughter races for Virginia Tech
June 27, 2019 — WEST BETHESDA, Maryland -- Dads sometimes leave work a little early to go watch their children compete in a race, but in David Heller’s case, the race came to him. His daughter, Clara Hellersund, is a support diver for the Virginia Tech team, which has two submarines entered in the International Human-Powered Submarine Races happening at Naval... MORE

Clara Hellersund (right), a junior at Virginia Tech and a support diver for the school’s submarine racing team, prepares to be lowered into the water with the team’s submarine Phantom 8 into the David Taylor Model Basin in West Bethesda, Md., on June 25

US Navy Divers Keep Students Safe at Carderock During International Human-Powered Submarine Races
June 29, 2017 — WEST BETHESDA, Md. (NNS) -- Every other year, hundreds of college and high school students come from around the world to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD), to race human-powered submarines they designed and built themselves in the command's David Taylor Model Basin (DTMB)... MORE

Sailors assigned to Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) stand by to assist in the David Taylor Model Basin during the 14th International Human-Powered Submarine Races (ISR) at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Md., June 28, 2017. NEDU and supporting dive-qualified Sailors in the National Capital Region are helping ensure a safe competition between the students at Carderock racing human-powered submersibles they designed and built for the biennial event, which is sponsored by the Foundation for Underwater Research and Education and is considered the capstone event for science, technology, engineering and mathematics outreach at Carderock.

Navy tests variable depth sonar's hydrodynamic behavior in tow
November 3, 2016 — The Navy has improved its ability to pinpoint mines following a series of sonar tests at Carderock's David Taylor Model Basin in Bethesda, Md., Navy officials announced Nov. 3... MORE

Carderock Division engineers upgrade Test Model Servicing Device capability
April 2, 2015 — WEST BETHESDA, Md. - The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock, is upgrading the portion of David Taylor Model Basin designed to allow engineers to repair or adjust small-scale ship models without needing to completely remove them from the basin, the Navy announced April 2... MORE

150326-N-AP853-054 WEST BETHESDA, Maryland - The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock, is upgrading the portion of David Taylor Model Basin designed to allow engineers to repair or adjust small-scale ship models without needing to completely remove them from the basin, the Navy announced April 2.

NAVSEA contributions to procedures, hardware make for successful Orion recovery
December 11, 2014 — WASHINGTON - When USS Anchorage (LPD 23) successfully recovered thereusable, unmanned NASA capsule Orion in the Pacific Ocean Dec. 5, it marked theculmination of nearly three years of testing, evaluating, and platformintegration performed by Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). NAVSEA's Surface Ship Program Management organization... MORE

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