{"id":100,"date":"2017-12-13T13:35:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2017\/?p=100"},"modified":"2018-01-12T15:12:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:12:49","slug":"last-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2017\/toc\/last-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Last Passage<\/h1>\n<p>USS <em>Independence<\/em> (CV\/CVA-62) was the US Navy\u2019s most battle-experienced vessel when decommissioned in 1998, having served from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Iraq War. But few would have predicted the 1,070-ft, 60,000-ton carrier\u2019s last voyage from Washington State around South America via the Strait of Magellan to Texas (where she is being scrapped), 16,086 nautical miles, would be among the most epic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBox\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GEOK5O6d7Vg?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"videoCaption\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">View a rollicking time-lapse of the trip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Josh Shaw &#8217;12 served as Chief Mate with Edison Chouest Offshore aboard AHTS <em>Dino Chouest<\/em>, which towed <em>Independence<\/em> in record time of 80 days to her last anchorage. The 348-ft. <em>Dino Chouest<\/em>, powered by two 10,880 hp diesel engines, towed the carrier using 2,000 ft. of wire with four shots of surge gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Passage<\/p>\n<p>USS <em>Independence<\/em> (CV\/CVA-62) was the US Navy\u2019s most battle-experienced vessel when decommissioned in 1998, having served from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Iraq War. But few would have predicted the 1,070-ft, 60,000-ton carrier\u2019s last voyage from Washington State around South America via the Strait of Magellan to Texas (where she is being scrapped), 16,086 nautical miles, would be among the most epic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">View a rollicking time-lapse of the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Shaw &#8217;12 served as Chief Mate with Edison Chouest Offshore aboard AHTS <em>Dino Chouest<\/em>, which towed <em>Independence<\/em> in record time of 80 days to her last anchorage. The 348-ft. <em>Dino Chouest<\/em>, powered by two 10,880 hp diesel engines, towed the carrier using 2,000 ft. of wire with four shots of surge gear.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2017\/toc\/last-passage\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}