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Description

Diving Officers are the Navy’s commissioned technical leadership authority in manned and unmanned diving and hyperbaric operations. Serving as technical experts who lead complex peacetime and combat-related diving missions at sea and ashore, they oversee underwater ship husbandry, salvage, special warfare, and undersea research and development missions in support of type and unified command requirements while utilizing significant operational and technical experience to safely execute high-risk dive-enabled operations. Diving Officers are proficient in the maintenance, repair, transportation, administration, operation, and supervision of all hyperbaric systems and diving methods employed by the joint force. Command Diving Officers manage all administrative facets of the command's diving program, including life-support system maintenance, repair, and certification. Qualified Watch Station Diving Officers provide critical onsite operational risk management, ensure verbatim-procedural compliance, and maintain clear command, control, and communication throughout the course of a specified diving operation. Strategically, Diving Officers manage and advise key dimensions of force generation, manpower allocation, operational requirements, equipment resourcing, and policy alignment. Technical expertise and proficiency in a given mission area are of the utmost importance in Diving Officer detailing and placement. Wherever practicable, detailing and placement business practices must permit Diving Officer specialization in mobile diving and salvage, special warfare, or underwater ship husbandry. While highly repetitive, technically specialized assignment is desired, non-specialized detours are available to qualified officers in the areas of training, special programs, submarine escape and rescue, saturation, program management, research, and experimentation.