The second class divers are recent graduates of the ... gives the approval on whether a diver earns the salvage diver badge. Prater said divers are ready when they start showing competency in ...

U.S. Navy diver Engineering Aide Second Class Samson Baker reenlisted for four more years of service while fully submerged ...

On Oct. 20, the latest class of graduates were the first group to earn the new badge. The design puts a diver wearing goggles and a scuba mask in front of a crossed lightning bolt and sword.

Crabtree was one of only two soldiers and nine sailors to earn the coveted diver badge. It had been less than a decade since Donna Tobias became the Navy’s first ... of the Wasp-class amphibious ...