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NAVSEA Assists with Hurricane Recovery
October 19, 2017 — WASHINGTON - NAVSEA assists hurricane-ravaged areas by executing Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SEA 00C ) contracts for diving and salvage teams to help clear harbors of debris and derelict vessels in the Port of Ponce and at Naval Air Station Key West... MORE

Image: Boat on a crane lift being maneuvered near Naval Air Station Key West after hurricane Irma.

Lehnhardt Relieves Baumann as SUPSALV Director
May 18, 2016 — WASHINGTON - Capt. Keith Lehnhardt relieved Capt. Gregg Baumann as the Director of Ocean Engineering, Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV), May 18... MORE

Navy Scientists and Engineers Develop Dive Buddy to Assist Divers
April 20, 2016 — Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division’s (NSWC PCD) scientists and engineers collaborated with the Naval Post Graduate School and developed a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) as a tool to aid U.S. Navy divers in navigation, communication, search and transportation... MORE

SUPSALV Validates LCS APU Removal/Installation Procedures
March 17, 2016 — WASHINGTON - The Naval Sea Systems Command's Office of the Director of Ocean Engineering, Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) has responded to a PEO LCS request to establish underwater maintenance and repair processes and procedures for the Retracting Azimuthing Thruster (RAT) for INDEPENDENCE variant Littoral Combat Ships. SUPSALV's Underwater Ship Husbandry Division (UWSH) that develops waterborne repair procedures for the fleet was assigned the task... MORE

Team Searches for Vanished U.S. - Flagged Vessel: Joint team searches for El Faro
March 14, 2016 — Working around the clock, an ad hoc civilian-military team goes to great lengths, and depths to find the sunken merchant vessel El Faro... MORE

El Faro, a U.S.-flagged vessel, and its 33 crewmen vanished in the seas of Hurricane Joaquin off the coast of the Bahamas Oct. 1.

SUPSALV Supports CSS Georgia Recovery Operations
July 23, 2015 — WASHINGTON - The U.S. Navy's Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) is providing vital salvage assistance to recover historical artifacts from the wreckage of the Civil War-era CSS Georgia in Savannah, Georgia harbor, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) announced July 23... MORE

SAVANAH, GA. -- The U.S. Navy's Supervisor of Salvage and Diving provided salvage assistance to recover the first cannon from the Civil War-era Confederate States Ship Georgia on July 21. The cannon was rigged by U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal divers in Savannah, Georgia harbor and deposited in a wet storage container for transport ashore and conservation.

SUPSALV clears Fort Pierce Channel of sunken barge
April 23, 2015 — FORT PIERCE, Florida - The Navy's Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) removed a barge that sank in the Fort Pierce ship channel, 100 yards inside the end of the ocean jetties, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) announced April 23... MORE

150423-N-IJ355-001 FORT PIERCE, Florida (April 13, 2015) - The wheel house of the sunken barge rises out of the Ft. Pierce Inlet waters barge where it had been blocking safe operations in the channel. Salvage task managed by Naval Sea Systems Command's Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) and conducted by SUPSALV's East Coast salvage contractor, DONJON Marine.

Navy's Oldest Ship Receives Hull Cleaning
April 16, 2015 — BOSTON - USS Constitution "Old Ironsides" received a waterborne underwater hull cleaning and comprehensive inspection in Boston Harbor, April 6-7 in preparation for its upcoming May 19 dry-docking... MORE

150416-N-IJ355-002 BOSTON (April 16, 2015) - A diver from Supervisor of Salvage and Diving performs hull cleaning on USS Constitution, the U.S. Navy's oldest active ship.

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