Petty Officer 1st Class Juan Lopez runs a fire hose to the finish line in a hose relay race against sailors from the Dominican Republic during a subject matter expert exchange in damage control aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge. Kearsarge is supporting the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise 2008, an equal-partnership humanitarian/civic assistance mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, France, Nicaragua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.