Clearance Diving Team

A Clearance Diving Team is a type of naval diving group. See:-

  • Clearance Diving Team (RAN) for Australian naval divers.
  • Clearance Diver for British naval work divers.
  • Frogman for naval divers in general.

They are so called because their first job was clearing mines and wreckage from harbors after World War II.

Famous quotes containing the words diving and/or team:

    “all the fine
    Points of diving feet together toes pointed hands shaped right
    To insert her into water like a needle”
    —James Dickey (b. 1923)

    “I doubt if men ever made a trade of heroism. In the days of Achilles, even, they delighted in big barns, and perchance in pressed hay, and he who possessed the most valuable team was the best fellow.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)