Clearance diver
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A clearance diver was originally a specialist naval diver who used explosives underwater to remove obstructions to make harbours and shipping channels safe to navigate, but the term "clearance diver"
A US Navy work diver is lowered to the sea bed during a dive from the USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) off the coast of St. Kitts.
Preparing to raise a mine from the seabed
US Navy explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) divers
Lionel 'Buster' Crabb, using the DSEA at Gibraltar, April 1944.
Bomb disposal
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Bomb disposal is an explosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are disabled or otherwise rendered safe. Bomb disposal is an all-encompassing term to descr
Clearance diver
…suspected unexploded ordnance around the UK coast after the war and became based at HMS Vernon, Portsmouth. The first units were Royal Navy Mine and Bomb Disposal Units. They were succeeded by the "Port Clearance Parties" (P Parties). The first operations by P Parties included clearing away the debris of unexploded…
Pittsburgh Police using a bomb disposal robot to examine a potential bomb during the 2010 Pittsburgh Marathon
A British NCO preparing to dispose of an unexploded bomb during the First World War
A bomb disposal team in 1940
"The long walk": A British Army ATO approaches a suspect device in Northern Ireland.