USS Jimmy Carter, SSN-23 at the Commissioning Ceremony by Tom Dougherty
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Emergency blow test conducted in the Thames River in front of Electric Boat piers.  High pressure air is being forced through the bottom ballast tank grates, forming large geysers of water alongside the submarine.  Note scaffolding still in place around the sail.

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