HMS Brocklesby (M33)
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HMS Brocklesby is a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel of the British Royal Navy, her primary purpose is to find and neutralise sea mines using a combination of; Sonar, Mine Clearance Divers and t
HMS Brocklesby in Portsmouth, October 2008
Stern view of Brocklesby off Bahrain in 2021
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.