udt/seal 



UDT 



Diving Officer - General 



Diving Officer - Deep Sea He02 



Diving Officer - Salvage 



Ship Salvage Operations Officer 



SCUBA Diver 



Marine Recon 



]ffiC TITLE 



5321 UDT Swimmer 



5322 UDT Swimmer/EOD Technician 

 5332 EOD Technician 



5314.1 Master Diver 



5314.2 Diver First Class 



5314.3 Diver Second Class 



53l|-I(- Diver- Salvage (Mobilization only) 



53I+5 SCUBA Diver 



8136 Underwater Photographer 



8285 Helicopter Rescue Crewman 



8I4-92 Hospital Corpsman - UDT/SEAL 



8kS3 Hospital Corpsman - Diving Technician 



Damage Control Diver - Shallow 



Marine Recon 



In addition to these officer and enlisted Man-in- the-Ocean classifica- 

 tions, there are also at least two civilian diver categories in the Navy -- 

 the diver, general, and the SCUBA diver. Most of the diver scientists and 

 engineers are strictly SCUBA divers, leaving the general diving to non- 

 professional personnel (per-diem employees) such as shipyard "hard hat" 

 divers . 



Space does not permit a description of the depth or equipment capabil- 

 ities of all the NOC/NEC. Note merely that, with the exception of the 

 Damage Control Diver, all are SCUBA qualified. That is to say, open cir- 

 cuit SCUBA qualified. This implies the use of the famous "Aqua-Lung". We 

 should be reminded that this is a specific brand name -- "Aqua-Lung" being 

 to open-circuit SCUBA what "Frigidalre" was to refrigerators. Aside from 

 having other brand names of approved open-circuit SCUBA, we even have a 

 miniature open-circuit apparatus called LUBA -- "Limited Underwater Breath- 

 ing Apparatus" — which is used by the Helicopter Rescue Crewmen. 



The classification titles which' include the word "diver" are all 

 qualified in surface supplied equipment of one type or another and, of 

 course, their diver's depth limitation is a function of the equipment he 



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