This is what certified the Navy adventure...The Shenandoah Dive Locker
April 1985 - October 1986
(Go ahead and "click" on pictures! - Under Construction)
This is what certified the Navy adventure...
October 1985 - Master Diver, Red, me, Zee (in Mk XV gear), Sugar
(holding Zee's helmet), and Richard D.
02 January 1986 - Getting ready to take a morning dive beneath
the battleship "Iowa." It was snowing that morning, and when I got out of the water
one-hour and :15
later, I was bent (for the first of two times)!
For more pictures of this dive, click
here.
11 January 1986 - This is a picture of my Shenandoah dive buddies on our
way out of the Norfolk Harbor: (left back to forward): Cujo,
Master Diver Bowdish, Cooksie; (middle back to forward): Richard D, Red, and
Zee; (right back to forward): Hess, Sugarman, and me. Where's Chief
Forrester? Missing: Tosh
When we got to Europe, it was time to work. Here I am
standing-by to enter the water in the Bay of Naples. Sugar is tending my
line and it looks like Cooksie was the Dive Sup that day.
Never been to Europe...? Let me
take you there now.
On
a recreational dive, we caught dinner and had Italians who
owned a restaurant we
frequented cook it up for us. Want to take a
quick trip to Italy? I'll show you around...
Rarely in life do you make as good as friends as I did in this
ship's dive locker. Red is certainly one of them...come
hang out with us in the dive locker. (Red put together a reunion for
most of us when I took my newlywed wife on our first trip to the East Coast in
Autumn of 1998 - 12 years after I left the ship. Thanks again Red...)
When
we got back to the States, US Naval history was made when a crew of Navy Divers
switched out a multi-ton propeller completely underwater (I think it was the USS
Detroit). For more
miscellaneous pictures, click here.
Navy Diving & Salvage career interest you...? Here's a starting point: CLICK HERE.