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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 efforts in support of the Unified Command in clearing the Port of Baltimore’s Fort McHenry Federal Channel, following the M/V... MORE

Emessiene becomes Navy’s newest Heavy Lift Project Officer
September 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 successfully completing an oral board chaired by Capt. Sal Suarez, director for SUPSALV and Ocean Engineering. The achievement marked... MORE

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.

NEDU Saturation Dive Team Joins DPAA Recovery Mission
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 for service members lost in World War II.The team of approximately 15 divers from NEDU’s Saturation Detachment (NSD),... MORE

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.

Hurricane Ida Salvage Support
October 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 clearing vessels and debris in Bayou LaFourche, Bayou Rigaud, and along the Mississippi River. Additionally, they are... MORE

U.S. Navy Recovers MH-60S Helicopter from Record Depth
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 Seahawk, crashed into the Pacific Ocean last year while operating from the amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19). The air... MORE

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.

SUPSALV supports NATO missions by clearing sunken dredge barge from the Port of Alexandroupoli, Greece
September 4, 2019 — Responding to a request from U.S. Naval Forces Europe and U.S. Army Europe to remove a sunken dredge barge from the port of Alexandroupoli, Greece, NAVSEA Supervisor of Salvage and Diving, SEA 00C, has developed a plan and assembled a team to remove the barge and restore access to the pier for future NATO missions.The dredge barge, Olga, which has... MORE

Navy diving equipment tested by astronauts for space exploration missions
July 16, 2019 — Scientists, engineers and key partners of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) are collaborating by taking an NSWC PCD technology, originally designed for diving, from seabed to space.The Diver Augmented Vision Device (DAVD) team from NSWC PCD and partners recently joined forces with the National Aeronautics and Space... MORE

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.

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

SUPSALV delivers temporary pumping capacity to Puerto Rico for Hurricane Season
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... MORE

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

EX‐USS SHADWELL Disposal – Wreck in Place
February 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. ... MORE

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