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PACIFIC OCEAN (Oct. 25, 2017) Sailors help Zeus, one of twos dogs who were accompanying two mariners who were aided by the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48). Ashland, operating in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region on a routine deployment, rescued two American mariners who had been in distress for several months after their sailboat had a motor failure and had strayed well off its original course while traversing the Pacific Ocean.