The Shenandoah Dive Locker

Diving on the USS Iowa (BB-61) on January 2nd, 1986

  The bow of the Iowa - she's a big mother.

 

  Cooksie (in another state of inner frustration).

 

  Cooksie, me, and Zee during pre-dive brief.

 

  Just prior to entry.  Oh what did I forget...?

 

  Zee performing final checks with me.

 

  What a classic photo!!!  This is my topside crew that dreaded morning.  There's Hess, Cooksie on stand-by, Mr. LaChance sitting back there, Tosh, and Red.  Check out the snow on the deck!

 

            Tending alongside the Iowa (and bent!).  After I got out, Cooksie got to go in...

 

  ...and Sugar got to be stand-by diver.  I have written on the back of this photo, "...captured exclusively while at a stabilized sugar level."  (To provide you a background of his nickname.)

 

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