 Having completed her Egyptair Flight 990 work and turned over continued mapping and search operations to U.S. Navy remotely operated vehicles, "Whiting" departed Naval Station Newport on 11 November 1999 to return to her home port at Norfolk, Virginia.In July 2001, NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration asked "Whiting" to search for the wreck of the U.S. Navy submarine , which sank 15 nautical miles (28 km) off Cape May, New Jersey, in September 1920.