On 18 September 1989 , the carrier departed Alameda to participate in PACEX ' 89 , the largest peacetime naval exercise since the Second World War . During the exercise '' Carl Vinson '' operated in the Bering Sea and the Aleutian Islands , eventually leading a three-carrier battle group operation in the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean . '' Carl Vinson '' had a port call in Pusan , South Korea , and then returned to her home port of Alameda shortly after the devastating 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
USS Carl Vinson