1 CER Dive Section
circa late 70's
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| Members of 1 Combat Engineer Regiment, dive section (and other members of Cdn units) heading out with SEAL's on a rec dive. We're just passing under the bridge between San Diego and Coronado |
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| This tall structure at Coranado contains 50' of water where we practiced holding our breath. The SEAL instructor demonstrated, jumped in the water, gave a brief talk and without taking a deep breath slipped slowly under and down 50' to the bottom where he tied off a piece of string to a rope running across the tank, returned without haste back to the surface. It looked easy, but that's all. Somebody check that guy for gills. |
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| Some of the boys at Camp Kerry in the desert east of San Diego where we got some awesome training from the SEAL's. Snowball (on the immediate left) remustered a number of years later to be a Clearance Diver, where he died in a diving accident off of Victoria. As I recall they didn't recover the body. |
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| Here's a shot of an ice dive in the Chilcotin training area in central British Columbia. As I recall some SEAL's were there getting some diving in also. |
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| The unique thing about ice diving is that you can't just surface anywhere unless you're prepared to hack through the ice. Getting lost isn't a problem, being tied in to a tender on the surface ready to haul you back. Signal: mutliple pulls, if you're in a real serious hurry. |
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| Back in the desert at Camp Kerry, we got some SEAL training on building home made claymore mines, we're just setting everything up for the big bang, it's your basic can of nut and bolts. Yep, it works. |
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| After doing some weapons training at Camp Kerry, it's time to clean them up. |
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| Not much diving happening here in Yakama Washington. The tactical function of the Artillery is to support the other arms by establishing such fire supremacy in the battle area the enemy can neither interfere with our operations nor develope their own effectively. |
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| Here's a shot of the parking lot behind Carpiquet Barracks at CFB Chilliwack. That summer I practiced a combat role in my Cougar. Yesss, that's 1/4 in plywood for a back window, I later cut a hole in it and bolted in some tinted plexiglass. One the first vehicles in town/country with tinted windows. |
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