Cape Cod (AD 43) - Naval Cruise Book

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So you want to be a diver? WOG Day is nothing to laugh about

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RD - REPAIR DIVERS Division iff- l LTJG E. ILMANEN MM3 HANER MM2 GREER Diving Officer The Diving Division of the Repair Department represents a bit of an enigma to those permanently attached and always on board USS CAPE COD. While CAPE COD is in homeport San Diego, the Diving Division is sent TAD to the Consolidated Divers Unit where they work in support of San Diego based PACFLT units as tasked by Readiness Support Group, San Diego. While attached to CDU, the divers have been called upon to perform a wide variety of demanding IMA ships husbandry jobs, emergent repairs and salvage work including screw and blade changes, salvaging downed aircraft, and placing underwater habitats on shafts to facilitate repairs. When CAPE COD deploys, the divers join her and provide preventive and corrective maintenance on all units assigned to availabilities with CAPE COD. The broad category of IMA underwater ships husbandry encompasses the maintenance necessary on vessels below the waterline, including but not limited to underwater hull inspections, sonar dome inspections qwith pictures taken documenting any damagel, PMS on bow thrusters, cutting and welding operations, patching and plugging suctions and overboard discharges, HS well as inspecting and clearing fouled screws. Due to the serious nature of diving operations, many time consuming precautions must be observed by following the guidelines of the diving safety check-off sheet in order to preclude the possibility of any safety violations occurring. During the 1987-88 WESTPAC depl0ylTl9nt, the divers performed 81 dives with a combined total of 43 hours and 39 minutes of accident-free hours underwater. 1 .Y 1 1 X-Tm

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