Dive History

Question 1

Mk V designer?

Answer 1

Bureau of construction and repai

Question 2

Spitcock?

Answer 2

A supplementary relief valve added to left side of helmet allowed to clear the mask with water

Question 3

How long was MK V in use and what replaced it?

Answer 3

Till 1980, replaces by MK 12, Was used for salvage operations for the USS S-51 and the USS S-4 in the mid-1920s

Question 4

Caissons?

Answer 4

Dry chambers, a French word meaning big boxes. Were designed to provide ready access from the surface by using an air lock, The pressure inside can be maintained by manner materials could be passed in and out

Question 5

Caissons disease

Answer 5

Divers would be struck by dizzy spells, breathing difficulties or sharp pains in the joints or abdomen. “Bends”

Question 6

Paul Bert

Answer 6

Studied the cause of Kasons disease, decompression sickness in 1878, Bert recommended workers gradually decompressed and return slowly to surface

Question 7

William badder

Answer 7

Navy cross for extreme heroism during salvage USS S-51

Mdv April 1931, M.O.H recipient for heroism during rescue of Squalous survivors

Question 8

Thomas Eddie

Answer 8

Gm, became diver, part of ISS S-51, S -4, receive navy cross for each operation
M.O.H recipient for rescuing fellow diver during S-4

Question 9

Frank Criley

Answer 9

USS s-4, M.o.h recipient for saving fouled diver during s-4, commanded USS Salvor,
Helped in USS S-51, USS Mayflower, squalous

Question 10

Orson Crandall

Answer 10

MOH for mdv during salvages USS sailfish, buried in Arlington national Cemetery

Question 11

James Macdonald

Answer 11

MOH for salvage of USS sailfish, made mdv oct 1934, involved in USS squalous, served with James Macdonald, William badder, John mihalowski, orson Crandall all moh recipients for squalous

Question 12

John mihalowski

Answer 12

MOH , worked as EDU, USS sailfish (squalous),

Question 13

Francis Hamerburg

Answer 13

MOH recipient for salving two trapped divers during rescue efforts in Pearl Harbor, dies feb 17 1945,

Question 14

Robert Stethum

Answer 14

Seabea Diver,murdered by hezbullah fighters in hijacking of commercial plane June 15, 1985

Question 15

George f Bond

Answer 15

Bonds saturation theory, Theorized the tissues of the body would eventually become saturated with another gas if expose long enough. Initiated the Genesis project a test theory of saturation.

Question 16

Genesis project

Answer 16

Tested the theory of saturation diving a series of experiments on humans and animals that prove that saturated divers needed extensions of bottom time which would require no decompression time

Question 17

Sea lab program

Answer 17

The best known U.S. Navy experiment in sat diving

Question 18

Sealab I and II

Answer 18

Sealab I constructed in pcb,
- 4 man, 10 days at 192fsw
Sealab II
-3 teams of 10 men, 205fsw, each spend 15 days at depth, astronaut Scott carpenter spent 30 days

Question 19

Sealab III

Answer 19

First time man had been saturated at 1000fsw, proved work can be done at that depth and can return home without harm,
Aquanot Berry Canon died at 600fsw, convulsed and drowned,

Question 20

USS F-4

Answer 20

Submarine sink near Honolulu Hawaii 305fsw

• 21 men died
• divers had :10 BT used at at that depth only
• navy dive Manuel and school grew from this salvage

Question 21

USS S-51

Answer 21

Rammed by passenger liner and sunk in Rhode Island

• 132fsw
• salvage took 10 months
• dive school was reinstated and in following years air deco tables came because of this salvage

Question 22

USS S-4

Answer 22

Collided with Coast Guard Cutter

• 102fsw, took 22 hours for divers to get on scene
• made contact with Men Alice in sub but couldn’t save them in time
• Lt. CB Momsen developed escape lung

Question 23

USS squalous (sailfish)

Answer 23

Navy developed rescue chamber, McCannon Erickson rescue chamber was -33 saved out of 50 from 243fsw
- first use of HeO2 in salvage diving

Question 24

USS Thresher

Answer 24

Nuclear attack sub
Sank in 8,400 fsw, deeper then anything could reach at time
Piping system failure
Deep Submergence Review Group (DSRG) developed

Question 25

USS Lafayette

Answer 25

Caught fire in New York city pier and capsize that her birth.
Navy used site to develop salvage school

Question 26

Carl Brashere

Answer 26

First African American to attend dive school
First African American MDV
Navy and Marine Corps medal for recovering B-28 nuclear bomb

Question 27

USS Greyback

Answer 27

Sub tank by Japanese, it’s sunk 14 ships, and was found in East China after being missing for 75 years

Question 28

USS Indiana

Answer 28

Transported a little boy the first nuclear weapon, sing by Japan and left 890 man stranded at sea and 316 survived

Question 29

USS Missouri

Answer 29

Site of surrender by Japan was at the battle of Iwo Jima Okinawa and decommissioned in 1992. Iowa class destroyer

Question 30

USS Turtle

Answer 30

First submersible vessel, concept was to attach bombs to enemy ships but never worked

Question 31

Thomas Henry Turpin

Answer 31

One of first African American Chiefs in navy
Assisted in USS S-4, first African American MDV?? Before brashere
Helped develop underwater cutting torch

Question 32

John Paul Jones

Answer 32

“Father of the Navy”,
First well know Naval commander in American Revolutionary War
“I have not yet begun to fight”