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10/27/2023 - SUPSALV's CAC enabled website can be found here: https://supsalv.navy.mil
Emessiene becomes Navy’s newest Heavy Lift Project Officer
Pictured are officers from the Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) Reserve Heavy Lift Team, (Left to right) Cmdr. Manny Sayoc, Capt. Sal Suarez, Lt Cmdr. Bomono “Bones” Emessiene, and Capt. Elmer Roman, after Emessiene qualified as a Heavy Lift Project Officer.
Sept. 13, 2023 - WASHINGTON - Lt. Cmdr. Bomono “Bones” Emessiene, a member of the Naval Sea Systems Command Supervisor of Salvage and Diving’s (SUPSALV) Reserve Unit, qualified last month as Heavy Lift Project Officer (HLPO) after...

NEDU Saturation Dive Team Joins DPAA Recovery Mission
Members of the Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) test the Saturation Fly-Away Diving System prior to a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) underwater recovery mission in the Pacific Ocean, Feb. 25, 2023. DPAA personnel conducted an underwater excavation operation in an effort to find a U.S. aircraft crew lost over Papua New Guinea during World War II.
July 26, 2023 - A team of divers from the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) supported a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) mission off the coast of Papua New Guinea as part of a recovery mission...

Hurricane Ida Salvage Support
Oct. 6, 2021 - U.S. Navy Supervisor of Salvage and Diving has deployed uniformed and civilian salvage engineers along with industry partners in support of USACE to clear waterways impacted by Hurricane Ida.   The salvage and dive teams are...

U.S. Navy Recovers MH-60S Helicopter from Record Depth
210318-N-LC447-031 NORTH PACIFIC (March 18, 2021) An MH-60S on deck of contracted salvage vessel off the coast of Yokosuka, Japan on March 18, 2021, having just been pulled from the depth of 19,075 ft by NAVSEA Supervisor of Salvage and Diving, (SUPSALV) at the request of the Navy Safety Center to facilitate accident investigation. This depth, a SUPSALV record, achieved using the ROV CURV 21 (painted yellow in background), deep ocean lift line and heave compensated Fly Away Dive System (red equipment behind helicopter).
March 22, 2021 - NORTH PACIFIC - NAVSEA’s Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) recovered a downed Navy MH-60S helicopter from a depth of 19,075 feet off the coast of Okinawa, Japan Thursday.The helicopter, a twin engine Sikorsky...

SUPSALV supports NATO missions by clearing sunken dredge barge from the Port of Alexandroupoli, Greece
This 4th section of Dredge Barge Olga was cut and lifted on 22 August and loaded on a trailer to be taken to the processing site. SUPSALV is supporting future NATO missions by clearing sunken barge in the port of Alexandroupoli, Greece.
Sept. 4, 2019 - Responding to a request from U.S. Naval Forces Europe and U.S. Army Europe to remove a sunken dredge barge from the port of Alexandroupoli, Greece, NAVSEA Supervisor of Salvage and Diving, SEA 00C, has developed a plan and...

SUPSALV Leadership

CAPT SAL M. SUAREZ, Commander, Supervisor of Diving & Salvage (00C), Director of Ocean Engineering
CAPT Sal M. Suarez, USN
Commander, Supervisor of Diving & Salvage (00C), Director of Ocean Engineering
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