Since we still had plenty of metal in the engines and other parts we also ran with degaussers to help create a more neutral magnetic field in case we ran into the mag influenced detonators.
She was finally decommisioned in 1989. The large odd cage near the bulkhead on the bow covers a large cable feed. We had a sea well in the bottom with a tethered sonar array to hunt for mines on the ocean bottom. I slept right next to the sea well hole one deck up from the bottom. It is not shown in this photo but we also had a large remote submersible to use in cable cutting and to help in removing mines. We were in a storm once heading to Fort Lauderdale and actully had boards ripped off the side from the wind and waves torquing the hull.