Media Category: Viet Nam

Images from my service or visits in or to Viet Nam. I may use images from other sources also.

26 Diving in the Tropics

26 Diving in the Tropics

After the job was done, HCU-1 had left, we were charged to make sure nothing is sticking out of the Danang River mud over a certain depth. We used C4 to do the job, and the Hospital Ship Helgoland was clear to shift from Saigon to Danang. This German American helped.

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25 Diving in the Tropics

25 Diving in the Tropics

The guy at left is me, yours truly. This is one of eight images of a salvage job of a WWII sunk ship on the left bank of the Danang River, down-town Danang in 1967. It was conducted by the Harbor Clearance Unit One (HCU-1). Our Naval Support Activity Danang Diving Barge and crew helped. […]

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24 Diving in the Tropics

24 Diving in the Tropics

This is one of eight images of a salvage job of a WWII sunk ship on the left bank of the Danang River, down-town Danang in 1967. It was conducted by the Harbor Clearance Unit One (HCU-1). Our Naval Support Activity Danang Diving Barge and crew helped. The purpose was to clear this mooring site […]

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23 Diving in the Tropics

23 Diving in the Tropics

This is one of eight images of a salvage job of a WWII sunk ship on the left bank of the Danang River, down-town Danang in 1967. It was conducted by the Harbor Clearance Unit One (HCU-1). Our Naval Support Activity Danang Diving Barge and crew helped. The purpose was to clear this mooring site […]

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22 Diving in the Tropics

22 Diving in the Tropics

This is one of eight images of a salvage job of a WWII sunk ship on the left bank of the Danang River, down-town Danang in 1967. It was conducted by the Harbor Clearance Unit One (HCU-1). Our Naval Support Activity Danang Diving Barge and crew helped. The purpose was to clear this mooring site […]

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21 Diving in the Tropics

21 Diving in the Tropics

This is one of eight images of a salvage job of a WWII sunk ship on the left bank of the Danang River, down-town Danang in 1967. It was conducted by the Harbor Clearance Unit One (HCU-1). Our Naval Support Activity Danang Diving Barge and crew helped. The purpose was to clear this mooring site […]

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20 Diving in the Tropics

20 Diving in the Tropics

This is one of eight images of a salvage job of a WWII sunk ship on the left bank of the Danang River, down-town Danang in 1967. It was conducted by the Harbor Clearance Unit One (HCU-1). Our Naval Support Activity Danang Diving Barge and crew helped. The purpose was to clear this mooring site […]

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19 Diving in the Tropics

19 Diving in the Tropics

This is one of eight images of a salvage job of a WWII sunk ship on the left bank of the Danang River, down-town Danang in 1967. It was conducted by the Harbor Clearance Unit One (HCU-1). Our Naval Support Activity Danang Diving Barge and crew helped. The purpose was to clear this mooring site […]

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18 Diving in the Tropics

18 Diving in the Tropics

Our diving barge, the HCU-1 Lift Craft LL3 and in the distance we see the famous or infamous Marble Mountains. This is one of eight images of a salvage job of a WWII sunk ship on the left bank of the Danang River, down-town Danang in 1967. It was conducted by the Harbor Clearance Unit […]

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17 Diving in the Tropics

17 Diving in the Tropics

This is a diving introduction dive for a diving school student candidate and it is conducted on the front of the Danang Naval Support Activity Diving Barge at Danang Bay in 1966. The diving tender is John T Brady; he was a First Class Diver and our leader.

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