CAF Story | Keeping the Waters Safe: Clearance Divers

Discover the unique experience and excitement of being a Clearance Diver with the Canadian Armed Forces! “I was descending, it was pitch black, I made bottom… I swam on top of it and my GPS navigator was telling me that I was right on top of it, but I couldn't see anything. So, I turned on my light and there it was, just a huge old sea mine that was waiting there a hundred years for me.” Says LS Dustin Perry, clearance diver with Fleet Diving Unit Pacific, of discovering a sea mine found as part of Operation OPEN SPIRIT.

[cycleSCUBA]

Good diver. A credit to the Canadian Navy.

[TheShiraz]

Jolly good . Bravo zulu komrades .very dangerous job though

[Jmpnb]

An interesting footnote to thisstory would be the follow up story on missing nuclear weapons in Canadian territory. The one that comes to mind is a B-36 that crashed in BC during the early 1950’s. One H-bomb was recovered from the peak it impacted on, the other remains missing after being jettisoned over coastal islands. There remain others, but that is the most obvious.

[brent]

Do reservists have the opportunity to engage in this kind of operations

[veekslo]

if engaging on commercial diver which military program is suit for me

[dylanforward]

Lower the vision standards they're higher than the US infantry the New Zealand infantry and the U.K. Infantry. Our soldiers aren't any more or less trained than that of the U.K. Or the US I doubt yet here I am waiting for a months for replies from our government. Swell very swell.