SUPSALV's Key Bridge Response 2024

Wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and M/V Dali cargo ship, April 17, 2024. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Theodore C. Lee)

SUPSALV Bridge Response

The Chesapeake, a 1000-ton lift capacity derrick barge, the Ferrell, a 200-ton lift capacity revolving crane barge, and the Oyster Bay, a 150-ton lift capacity crane barge used to remove submerged portions of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd class Hannah Mohr)

Salvage off runway at Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay

Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 1, SUPSALV, and private industry diving and salvage experts use inflatable salvage roller bags to extract the U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon from waters just off the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay.

Capsule Recovery Team

A Navy Dive team from Expeditionary Unit One along with contractors from the 1AF and Neutral Buoyancy Lab recovered the Orion Crew Module after its historic flight around the moon in December of 2022.

Tow of Ex-USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63)

In support of Military Sealift Command and Inactive Fleet, SUPSALV conducted a tow of Ex-USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) from Bremerton, WA to Brownsville, TX for scrapping.

Shippingport being towed from New London

Tow of SHIPPINGPORT (ARDM 4)

Military Sealift Command tasked SUPSALV to tow the drydock, SHIPPINGPORT (ARDM 4) from New London, CT to Norfolk, VA to support the drydock’s maintenance availability.

Robyn McGinn, SUPSALV’s Program Manager for Diving Life Support Systems was the Navy diver who executed a test dive with the DAVD system on 24 Feb.

SUPSALV and NASA Test Advanced Diving System

Robyn McGinn, SUPSALV’s Program Manager for Diving Life Support Systems executed a test dive with the DAVD system on 24 Feb. (Photo by Rory O'Connor)

USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) Island Removal

NAVSEA SUPSALV engineers and contractor, SMIT Americas, tow the fire damaged USS BONHOMME RICHARD (LHD-6) from San Diego through the Panama Canal to the Gulf of Mexico.

SUPSALV Conducts In-Water Bearing Replacement in Pearl Harbor, HI

SEA00C UWSH Specialist, Scott Heineman, lead a team of contract welder divers in the replacement of USS CHAFEE's main shaft bearings.

Dry Habitat used to conduct rudder repairs is hoisted from the water

SUPSALV conducts repairs to USS DONALD COOK's Rudder

SUPSALV’s Underwater Ship Repair specialist, Neil Wolfe teams with Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center Repair Officer, LCDR Ben Hall, and a crew of contract welder-divers to conduct repairs to USS DONALD COOK’s (DDG 75) port rudder in a dry habitat. Pictured is the dry habitat being transferred from the water after repairs. 200909-N-LC447-002

SUPSALV Removes Barge from USNA

NAVSEA salvage engineers took on the challenge of refloating of a Navy Lighterage System pontoon causeway at the United States Naval Academy. Left: the sunken causeway. Middle: NAVSEA Engineering Duty Officer divers and SUPSALV salvage division staff patch, blow air into, and pump water from some of the 45 compartments. Right: the fully floating causeway prepped for tow and removal.

Hub Change out Cofferdam being lowered into the water

SUPSALV Underwater Ship Repair specialists, Russ Mallet, Neil Wolfe, and Jacob Nessel, and a team of Navy divers from MARMC support the removal and replacement of a Controllable Pitch Propeller (CPP) Hub on a DDG Class ship.

Navy Certifies SATFADS System

The U.S. Navy completed 600fsw recertification dives in the Gulf of Mexico marking the completion of the reactivation of the Saturation Flyaway Diving System (SATFADS). The system, which is transportable via sea or air, allows divers to work at depths and duration beyond those achievable with surface supplied diving practices to support critical undersea missions. SATFADS first planned mission is supporting DPAA in recovering remains from the WWII B-24 Heaven Can Wait off Papua New Guinea.

SUPSALV parbuckles NSWC ARD Platform

SUPSALV’s team towed the capsized Experimental Support Platform (ESP), installed pulling levers, assembled pulling winches and holdback anchor legs, and conducted a parbuckle operation.

SUPSALV recovers PACFLT C-2A from Philippine Sea

SUPSALV Team located & recovered the fuselage of a downed C-2A Greyhound aircraft from depth of 18,789 ft using the deep ocean remotely operated vehicle CURV 21.

USAF Ship Debeaching

SUPSALV team and MDSU Two personnel debeach a USAF Missile Retriever vessel which washed ashore during Hurricane Michael.

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10/27/2023 - SUPSALV's CAC enabled website can be found here: https://supsalv.navy.mil

U.S. Navy Efforts Aid in Baltimore Channel Reopening

June 18, 2024 - NEWS | June 12, 2024U.S. Navy Efforts Aid in Baltimore Channel ReopeningBy Naval Sea Systems Command Office of Corporate CommunicationsBALTIMORE -- The U.S. Navy’s Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) led critical...

Emessiene becomes Navy’s newest Heavy Lift Project Officer

Pictured are officers from the Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) Reserve Heavy Lift Team, (Left to right) Cmdr. Manny Sayoc, Capt. Sal Suarez, Lt Cmdr. Bomono “Bones” Emessiene, and Capt. Elmer Roman, after Emessiene qualified as a Heavy Lift Project Officer.

Sept. 13, 2023 - WASHINGTON - Lt. Cmdr. Bomono “Bones” Emessiene, a member of the Naval Sea Systems Command Supervisor of Salvage and Diving’s (SUPSALV) Reserve Unit, qualified last month as Heavy Lift Project Officer (HLPO) after...

NEDU Saturation Dive Team Joins DPAA Recovery Mission

Members of the Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) test the Saturation Fly-Away Diving System prior to a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) underwater recovery mission in the Pacific Ocean, Feb. 25, 2023. DPAA personnel conducted an underwater excavation operation in an effort to find a U.S. aircraft crew lost over Papua New Guinea during World War II.

July 26, 2023 - A team of divers from the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) supported a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) mission off the coast of Papua New Guinea as part of a recovery mission...

Hurricane Ida Salvage Support

Oct. 6, 2021 - U.S. Navy Supervisor of Salvage and Diving has deployed uniformed and civilian salvage engineers along with industry partners in support of USACE to clear waterways impacted by Hurricane Ida. The salvage and dive teams are...

U.S. Navy Recovers MH-60S Helicopter from Record Depth

210318-N-LC447-031 NORTH PACIFIC (March 18, 2021) An MH-60S on deck of contracted salvage vessel off the coast of Yokosuka, Japan on March 18, 2021, having just been pulled from the depth of 19,075 ft by NAVSEA Supervisor of Salvage and Diving, (SUPSALV) at the request of the Navy Safety Center to facilitate accident investigation. This depth, a SUPSALV record, achieved using the ROV CURV 21 (painted yellow in background), deep ocean lift line and heave compensated Fly Away Dive System (red equipment behind helicopter).

March 22, 2021 - NORTH PACIFIC - NAVSEA’s Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) recovered a downed Navy MH-60S helicopter from a depth of 19,075 feet off the coast of Okinawa, Japan Thursday.The helicopter, a twin engine Sikorsky...

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CAPT SAL M. SUAREZ, Commander, Supervisor of Diving & Salvage (00C), Director of Ocean Engineering

CAPT Sal M. Suarez, USN
Commander, Supervisor of Diving & Salvage (00C), Director of Ocean Engineering
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