https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umn70pVyPgU
As the world brace for a possible nucleus nuclear meltdown in Japan ’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station , the U.S. Navy kept its helicopter flying to furnish earthquake and tsunami relief .
The Navy ’s Pacific - based Seventh Fleet announced on its Facebook page that the aircraft carrier in situation , the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan , had been moved slimly forth from the Fukushima Daiichi plant after find out “ grim level ” radioactive pollution “ in the air and on its aircraft operating in the expanse . ” But the Navy said that operation to provide disaster relief hadalready resumed northerly of Sendai .
Most important to those easing elbow grease : helicopters . As describe in the video above , released by the Navy on Sunday , Navy helicopters like the Reagan ’s SH-60 Seahawks are delivering “ body of water , blankets and food ” and scouring the stricken country for survivors . Ten operations already launch today , despite the repositioning .
And it was the copter crews that wing into the “ low degree ” radiation sickness expanse . accord to the New York Times , the whirlybird were 60 miles from the plant , “ suggesting widening environmental taint . ”
The contaminant may be spreading . But so is the Navy ’s aid role in the easing try . Seventh Fleet said it expects the U.S.S. Tortuga to arrive on Tuesday at the eastern glide of Hokkaido , carrying two profound - ski lift MH-53 helicopters . It ’ll pick up Japanese flock and vehicles and send off them on to Aomori , in northern Honshu . Four more ships are expected to arrive begin on Wednesday : the Blue Ridge , the Essex , the Harpers Ferry and the Germantown .
Retired Capt . Jan van Tol , who commanded the Essex during the 2005 tsunami relief missions in Indonesia , explained that laboured - lift eggbeater are needed “ afford the likely scathe to coastal transit infrastructure and the rugged Nipponese terrain . ” He told Politico , “ Essex is on her way up from Malaysia ( means a week away … ) , and other big deck will no doubt be assigned . They ’re the real plus for this afford their heavy helo raising capacity , though the carriers will no doubt get the headlines with their SH-60s . ( Remember that operate the cloggy helos is not merely a matter of the deck space ( of which the CVNs obviously have a lot more ) , but also of the aircraft sustentation capability needed to keep the helos operating ( and I have a bun in the oven they ’ll be form very heavily ) . ”
The enormous human and environmental damage of Friday ’s quake and tsunami have yet to be in full tallied . But as of Monday , the Japan Meteorological Agency registered at least three aftershocks “ larger than magnitude 7.0 ” and some 44 aftershocks great than 6.0 .
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