for anyone who is courious as to what depering looks like-

Question 1 which carrier is that? 2) Is depering like dredging? 3) Where is Lambert' point?

It's the USS Ronald Reagan - Lambert's point is in Norfolk in the Elizabeth River -deperming is a magnetic treatment for metal to reduce the signature for Magnetic Anamoly Detection. I was stationed there for 2 years

Thanks for that - is 'De-perming' the same as 'De-Gaussing'?..Jim

Hi John!

Deperming:
The deperming process is intended to remove irregular, permanently magnetized areas along a ship’s hull. Usually deperming, in concert with an onboard degaussing system, can achieve an 80% magnetic signature reduction, substantially reducing the ship’s susceptibility to mines. Onboard degaussing systems are designed with the assumption that post-construction deperming will be accomplished, and if a ship does not go through deperming, irregular magnetized areas may exist outside the physical design area of the degaussing coils, increasing the risk that influence mines may be triggered by these magnetized areas. Since almost all new ships constructed in the last 50 years had been depermed, and those that were not depermed had not been measured in different locations, the Navy had no data to indicate how much the operation of the onboard degaussing system would be degraded if the ship did not get depermed.

From Wavelenghts online
Division Supports NAVSEA in Exercise of Technical Authority

Skipper

Skipper beat me to it...There's a bit more but it's classified- I dont even know what they did -civilian contractors did it after we wrapped the ships with the cables.