Episodes

Master Chief Master Diver Robert Carmichael served in the United States Navy from June 30, 1978, to October 30, 2000. Bob entered the Navy just after turning 17 years of age. He went to SCUBA dive school winter of 1981 through the holidays and into 1982, followed by attending Navy 2nd Class Dive School. He had to repeat the SCUBA phase all over again. Bob went to 1st Class Dive School in 1986 and qualified Master Diver in 1991. Bob Carmichael talks about great team efforts while he served on the...

Master Chief Master Diver Steve Wiggins joined the U.S. Navy in November 1978 and retired from active duty in October 2005. He served in the fleet for five years as a Yeoman before he attended Navy 2nd Class Dive School in 1984 at Coronado, California. Steve attended 1st Class Dive School from 1987 over the holiday to 1988. In 1995, Steve earned his Navy Master Diver Qualification. Master Diver Wiggins' most memorable dive commands were the USS Kittiwake (ASR-13), from 1988 to 1991, where he qua...

Richard (Rick) Armstrong joined the Navy in August 1975. He qualified Navy Master Diver in 1991 and was selected and commissioned into the Navy's Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) Diving Technician program. Chief Warrant Officer Grade 5 Rick Armstrong retired from the Navy in April 2009. Rick recalled the names of his mentors that inspired his successful career. His father, Richard Armstrong Sr., Master Chief Master Diver Robert "Bobby" Cave, Master Chief Master Diver George "Gunner" Powel, Master Chi...

Master Chief Master Diver Mark Leet first enlisted into the U.S. Navy in September of 1978. Mark explains how he went to Navy 2nd Class Dive School twice in 1980 and again in 1984. He went to First class dive school in 1986 and then qualified as a Navy Master Diver in February 1999. The commands that MDV Leet served at were; USS Papago ATF-160, USS Petrel ASR-14, Harbor Clearance Unit Two, Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit TWO, USS Conserver ARS-39, Naval Experimental Dive Unit, USS Ortolan ASR-22,...

Ed Delanoy started his Navy career in the 1970s at the end of the Vietnam era until July 2000. He recalls the most influential people in his life and career, his father, Billie LeRoy Delanoy, his Uncle Edmond Bennett, and Dave Sullivan, Engineering Officer at the Navy Diving and Salvage Training Center (NDSTC). Ed compares his fun with friends in his Deep-Sea Stories to movies about the Navy and the television series McHale's Navy. During his tour of duty at Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet (CIN...

Master Diver Steve Mulholland is currently the Man In the Sea Museum president. Steve speaks to his ongoing efforts to advance the Man In the Sea Museum into full integration with Panama City and Bay County, Florida. He counts on re-exciting the community of Navy Divers to engage with and make the Man In the Sea Museum a part of Panama City, Florida culture like the Navy Dive School is the center of Military Diving. Master Diver Mulholland talks about his time at the Navy Diving and Salvage Trai...

Two U.S. Navy Diving and Salvage historical missions highlight Captain Bobbie Scholley's 24-year distinguished career. In 2000, Captain Scholley was the officer in charge of the dive team that conducted the recovery and emergent battle damage repair mission following the bombing of the USS Cole DDG 67 in Yemen. Captain Scholley was Commanding Officer at Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit Two during the salvage of the ironclad civil war era USS Monitor's steam engine and gun turret in 2001 and 2002 o...

Master Chief Master Diver Kyle Gaillard talks about repairing America's ships and submarines during the height of the cold war while stationed onboard the USS Dixon AS-37, USS McKee AS-41, and Consolidated Divers Unit in San Diego, California. Kyle talks about his time at the Navy Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City, Florida, filling Command Master Chief leadership roles at Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One and CENTCOM 56.1. Kyle mentioned these names that influenced him to be a N...

Master Diver Ralph Bowdish takes us back to the Vietnam era of diving and salvage near Saigon. He talks about tunneling in the rivers, rigging for a Bolster lift, and parbuckling using the MK5 and Jack Brown dive rigs. Master Diver Bowdish served on board the USS Florikan ASR-9, USS Tringa ASR-16, and USS Sunbird ASR-15. He also served with Master Diver Sam Adams, Master Diver Sam Sangrey, Master Diver Jerry Whitmer, Guennie Vendeto, Diving Officer/Master Diver Red Thomas, and Master Diver Bob M...

Pepper Shirley talks about his Navy Dive friends Mike Cox, Ralph Bonnen, and Shawn Fannin. Pepper and his friends moved the propellers from in front of the Navy Diving and Salvage Training Center to the Navy Experimental Dive Unit commanding officers parking lot as a practical joke. Pepper also talks about conducting Battle Damage repairs to Navy Ships while stationed on the USS Jason. He supported the mini-subs Alvin and Mystic. He also talks about supporting saturation dives in the Gulf of Mex...

Master Diver Sam Sangrey tells us great Deep-Sea Stories from his time at Harbor Clearance Unit One, USS Sperry AS 12, USS Cape Code AD 43, USS McKee AS 41, and USS Coucal ASR 8. Master Sangrey talks about conducting Battle Damage Repairs on the SS Robinhood in Vietnam. Master Diver Sangrey also remembers great Deep-Sea Divers he served with; Charlie Gross, Robert "Rotten" Moore, Lee Reinhardt, MDV Bill "Blacky" Ensenor, MDV Jim Kerr, MDV Donald McKenzie, MDV R.C. Hall, MDV Ortiz, MDV Frank Bosk...

Navy Diver Dave Guerra and I talk about Navy Divers and Sailors we served with on the USS Reclaimer ARS 42. Our Deep-Sea Stories covers 7 years of USS Reclaimer history from 1988 up to USS Reclaimer decommissioning in 1994.