At 1.5 mi long, the Hood Canal Bridge is the longest floating bridge ... variable wind conditions and marine traffic, including U.S. Navy submarines. The project spanned almost seven years and ...

Navy submarines, including the Trident nuclear missile boats, must pass through the bridge while traveling between the sub base at Bangor on Hood Canal and the Pacific Ocean. When completed ...

The Navy has agreed to pay DNR $342,000, which is the appraised market value, to secure a 55-year easement for 32 miles of shoreline that runs south from the Hood Canal Bridge to Kitsap ...

The problem has not disrupted vehicular traffic over the bridge. The bridge’s closure did not affect submarine traffic south on Hood Canal to Naval Sub Base Bangor in Kitsap County, said Lt. Kellie ...

OLYMPIA — Submarines ... Navy in a shoreline-easement agreement to protect priorities for each organization. The easement, a 32-mile sliver of underwater bedlands along the eastern side of Hood ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The state Department of Transportation will receive more than $51 million in federal funds to repair the Hood ... The bridge also crosses a channel used by U.S. Navy ...

The Navy has agreed to pay DNR $342,000, which is the appraised market value, to secure a 55-year easement for 32 miles of shoreline that runs south from the Hood Canal Bridge to Kitsap County's ...

The Washington State Department of Transportation will receive $51,125,917 in federal funds to repair the Hood Canal ... And if the bridge’s retractable span were to fail, submarines and other ...

But since the base became home to nuclear submarines in 1977, Kitsap County has doubled to some 250,000 residents. Over time, the Navy considered ... of the Hood Canal Bridge, where 20-ton barges ...

It spans the waterway for submarines heading from the Navy’s Bangor ... increased following the terrorist attacks a year ago. The U.S. Navy has been guarding the floating Hood Canal Bridge since the ...

PORT GAMBLE — The new Hood ... the bridge and Big Valley Road, but that’s many years and $25 million away. Rolfes wants to talk to the Navy to see if there’s any way it can limit submarine ...