Ocean Engineering, Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV)

SUPSALV diver repairing USS Preble bearing

Pearl Harbor, HI. (27 December 2018) – Responding to a CNSP/PHNSY request, SUPSALV tasked Phoenix International with removing and replacing port and stbd main bearings on USS PREBLE (DDG 88). Phoenix diver pictured is Tyler Makepeace, using NAVSEA hydraulic impact wrench IW12. 181227-N-LC447-022

Habitat being lowered into the water to support repairs to USS CARNEY

ROTA SPAIN, (Jan 15 2019) SUPSALV Underwater Ship Repair specialist, Russ Mallet, along with a team of contract welder-divers are supporting Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center Rota by repairing damage to USS CARNEY’s (DDG 64) port rudder. Pictured above is the dry habitat being lowered into the water to support rudder plate repairs. 190113-N-LC447-001

181214-F-XK019-1002 - Tyndall AFB, FL - 14 DEC 2018. Salvage Engineers from NAVSEA Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) team with MDSU Two personnel to debeach a USAF Missile Retriever vessel which washed ashore during Hurricane Michael. In this image, the second day of salvage operations, the vessel is being pulled by the barge toward deep water with large roller bags under the keel easing it’s slide across the seabed.

180930-N-LC447-003. View of PRINZ EUGEN’s propellers extending above the surface while the U.S. Navy team conducts oil removal operations aboard USNS SALVOR and T/V HUMBER moored over the bow of the wreck. During the Aug – Oct 2018 operation, the joint Navy / Army team removed over 228K gallons of oil from the submerged hull.

SAN JUAN, PR. 11 JULY 2018 - Responding to a FEMA and USACE request, SUPSALV tasked their east coast salvage contractor, DONJON Marine, to install temporary pumping systems in 10 locations in Puerto Rico. This image, shows a segment of the Malaria installation (eastern San Juan) where 7 pumps are installed to ready to respond to flooding brought on by 2018 hurricanes.

EX-USS SHADWELL Disposal - Wreck in Place

MOBILE, AL (13 January 2018). Ex-USS SHADWELL decommissioned and used as a fire test ship by Naval Research Lab since 1988 shown as its hull had been pulled up onto the beach on Little Sand Island, Mobile AL. SUPSALV representative in foreground, responsible for disposing of the vessel, observing progress. The SUPSALV team completed the project on 19 February having removed 305 cubic yards (CY) of trash, 180 CY of asbestos, 75 tons of PCB containing material, and 4,556 tons of steel structure. 180113-N-LC447-004

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) sits on deck of heavy lift transport MV Treasure, Oct. 07, 2017. Crews are conducting sea fastening in preparation for Treasure's departure on October 11 for Fleet Activities Yokosuka for repairs.

USS JOHN S McCAIN ON DECK (Oct. 6, 2017)

The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) is loaded on heavy lift transport MV Treasure. Treasure, on hire through SEA 00C’s Western Pacific Salvage contract with SMIT International N.V. will transport McCain to Fleet Activities Yokosuka for repairs. (U.S. Navy Photo - 171006-N-OU129-128 - by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua Fulton/Released)

SUPSALV Supports SWRMC with USS THE SULLIVANS Rudder Repairs

MAYPORT, Fl. (31 January 2017) Southeast Regional Maintenance Center (SERMC) requested the Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (NAVSEA 00C), also known as SUPSALV, to provide welding repairs to the port and starboard rudders of USS THE SULLIVANS (DDG 68) which is home ported at Mayport Naval Station. To conduct these repairs, SUPSALV barged its full rudder cofferdam set from Norfolk, VA to Mayport, FL the week of 10 January 2017. 170117-N-LC447-001

SUPSALV Supports Removal of Display Ship Barry

WASHINGTON (May 7, 2016) Display Ship Barry is pulled by tug boats to transport the ship from the Washington Navy Yard to the Inactive Shipyard in Philadelphia. Barry was commissioned Sept. 7, 1956 and became a display ship in 1984. 160507-N-217SW-975 (U.S. Navy photo by Scott Adam Webb/Released)

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Navy diving equipment tested by astronauts for space exploration missions

David Coan, extra vehicular activity lead for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center dives at the Aquarius Reef Base underwater habitat.donning a Kirby Morgan-37 helmet equipped with the Divers Augmented Vision Device Generation 1.0 heads-up display during the 23rd NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations in June 2019.

July 16, 2019 - Scientists, engineers and key partners of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division

Joint U.S. Navy/Army Team Removes Oil from Sunken WWII Ship

View of PRINZ EUGEN’s propellers extending above the surface while the U.S. Navy team conducts oil removal operations aboard USNS SALVOR and T/V HUMBER moored over the bow of the wreck. During the Aug – Oct 2018 operation, the joint Navy / Army team removed over 228K gallons of oil from the submerged hull.

Nov. 2, 2018 - This October, a joint U.S. Navy and Army team successfully completed a historic oil removal operation on the sunken World War II vessel ex-USS PRINZ EUGEN located in Kwajalein Atoll.

SUPSALV delivers temporary pumping capacity to Puerto Rico for Hurricane Season

Donjon's barge loaded with piping, CONEX boxes, pumps and spare parts prior to sailing from Morgan City, LA

July 11, 2018 - Under a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) response request the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has tasked the Naval Sea System Command, Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV), US Navy, with providing temporary pumping capability to Puerto Rico for the hurricane season.

EX‐USS SHADWELL Disposal – Wreck in Place

EX‐USS SHADWELL in her mooring on Little Sand Island where NRL used her as a full scale R&D platform for conducting firefighting tests.

Feb. 20, 2018 - EX USS SHADWELL, a decommissioned CASA GRANDE Class Dock Landing Ship has had a long history supporting the US Navy. She was built by Newport News Shipbuilding in 1944, and served as a commissioned vessel thru 1970. NRL took custody and began using her for testing firefighting equipment, procedures and testing fire resistance of materials beginning 1988. After decades of testing, she was retired from NRL service in October 2016.

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