Media Category: Navy Diving
Mu U.S. Navy Diving Pictures
Zc147
Zc147. Navy Diver School, Second Class, San Diego 1963, we used a converted cargo barge as a classroom and platform for surface supplied diving training. We started out in a swimming pool, and then we dove of this amphibious pontoon causeway, alongside our diving barge, to give us open water swims and SCUBA diving.
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Zc146
Zc146. Navy Diver School, Second Class, San Diego 1963, the next 7 images are about our SCUBA training. This is my shipmate DC2 Auman he asked me to volunteer with him for diver training in order to fill vacant diving billets on our ship USS Belle Grove LSD-2. Thank you very much, Petty Officer Auman and Buddy!!!!!!! I met him again later as a CPO and EOD diver.
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Zc152
Zc150. Navy Diver School, Second Class, San Diego 1963; we are doing open sea dives, offshore from Point Loma in San Diego. We assemble at the descent line and start our descent together as a team. The diving training was a great experience and channeled my next many duty stations, during 30 years of service, always to a diving command or a command with diving billets.
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Zc150
Zc150. Navy Diver School, Second Class, San Diego 1963; we are doing open sea dives, offshore from Point Loma in San Diego. We used the 90 cubic feet aluminum tanks and the double hose nonmagnetic regulators. That gear was designed for the EOD divers. The bottles were heavy and the hoses often leaked water into the air supply hose.
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