Lost Navy Divers

 

Please Check out the requests below. If you know of the whereabouts of any of the people being sought, please contact directly the person looking for them.

 

03-07-2010 --Dianne Whitfield from Western Australia is trying to obtain a photograph of JOSEPH ARENA who was a
Bosun's Mate 2nd Class - US Navy - Hard Hat Diver;  his Military Service between 1942 and 1946.

 

He was born 24 September 1921, Providence, RI and passed away 2 September 1998 - Oceanside, CA. She believes he is buried at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, CA - Plot CBD, 1, 596. (Ed. Note - I will check on this and see if I can find his resting place as I only live a couple of miles from Fort Rosecrans.)

 

Anyone knowing anything about BM2/DV ARENA, please contact Dianne at whitty_1@bigpond.com and copy me.

 

01-01-2010 -- Andy Adams is trying to locate an old diving shipmate William Chalk. I last saw him in 1967 at the diving school in Subic bay. At the time he was a 1st class Enginman. Check your  Files and ask all your contacts if they know of his whereabouts
   thanks  R/S Andy Adams SCPO. Master Diver aadamsjr@cableone.net

 

12-31-2009 -- My name is Michael White, I am an English Director living and working out of Vienna Austria and have recently produced the documentary film Azorian the Raising of the K-129. www.projectjennifer.at

 

I am now writing a book over the whole story of Project Azorian together with Norman Polmar the well respected American Cold War Naval historian analyst and author which will be published by the USN Institute press in the fall of 2010. Expanding on areas I could  not get into the film. One of the reasons I made the film was to try to put an end to all the B.S. articles, books and conspiracy stories that exist on this project and before it is lost to history for ever.

 

I am looking for any of the ex Hughes Glomar Explorer Divers for a phone call or some email exchanges of information over their role on the project. One I believe had the sir-name Beckman! and another Tony Asaro I see sadly in your passed away column, but I know there to be others onboard.

 

Is there some way I could put a posting regards a chance of being able to make contact with any of these still living Divers.

 

Regards 

michael white director/producer

michael white films
zirkusgasse 13/4
a-1020 vienna
austria

phone/ +43.1.890 32 69
cell/ +43.1.699 108 12 413
mail/ michael@white.at

www.white.at
www.projectjennifer.at
www.onawindandaprayer.com  

 

12-29-09 -- Doug Coggeshall sent the following  --  My father (Charles M. Coggeshall, Master Diver, EOD) was on the diving teams of both Sea Lab Two and Three. I'm attempting to contact his fellow U.S. Navy Diver colleagues to invite them to attend my dad's eightyth birthday this coming February 2010.
Can you help me get in contact with his former diving friends and colleagues? Thanks (in advance) for anything that you might be able to do.
Doug Coggeshall, Mechanical Engineering Manager, Ocean Optics, Inc.
830 Douglas Avenue
Dunedin, FL  34698
Office Telephone: (727) 450-6880
Office Fax:  (727) 733-3962

Cell Phone: (727) 485-6220

Doug.Coggeshall@OceanOptics.com

 

12-26-09 -- CWO4 Ret Rick Vermillion is looking for MDV Richard Wiebe. Please contact Rick at either 614-424-3230 or rickvermillion@earthlink.net if you have info on MDV Wiebe.

 

02-19-09 -- Lavern "Vern" E. Miller, Jr, the son of Departed Navy Diver Miller, who was killed (along with Navy Diver Sprinkle) in a diving accident on the USS Skylark in 1967, wrote me. Vern is serving with the Army Special Forces in Iraq and would like to find Hyrum Mullikan and John Francis Breslan.

 

Vern would also like to get in touch with anyone who served on Skylark with his dad. His email address is vernaciousd@gmail.com. If someone out there can help out, please do.

 

02-15-09 -- EN1/DV Robert Manley usnavydiver0922@yahoo.com is looking for Mark Hibbits. He was stationed with him in Scotland sometime between 1981 and 1989. Also Dave Taylor who he was stationed with at SIMA Dive Locker in Mayporrt, FL, also in the '81 to '89 time frame.

 

02-04-09 -- CWO4 Tom Hodgins (ret) tom_hodgins@hotmail.com requests assistance in locating MDV Roland Bissonnette. Any contact info will be appreciated. Tom Hodgins 360-792-1111

 

12-21-08 -- Jim "Ernie" Ernst jru9909@gmail.com (540) 891-5288 is looking for ML1/DV1 M. Marshall and/or HT1/DV1 Elden Ashley. He was stationed with them at DSDS 1968 - 69.

 

12-20-08 -- John Ackerman jackerman@neo.rr.com is looking for Bud Kilbury. They served together on USS Florikan

 

12-20-08 -- Chaplain Ed Skiba chapedskiba@yahoo.com is looking for QMC Wally Bent. Bent was an instructor at NSDS in May 1966.

 

12-20-08 -- Bernie Campoli flafrog@bellsouth.net is looking for Doctor Bill Cunningham and his wife Dolly. They were stationed at NDSTC in the 1980s.

 

9-27-08 -- Chuck Erickson, USS Proteus Diver, guppieone@msn.com is looking for "Smokey" Seals and Chris Brewer. See messages.

 

9-24-08 -- Donald M. Laurin donald.laurin-02@pope.af.mil is looking for Joe Bradshaw. Don was a HTC/DV1 and Joe was a SWC/DV1 when they were stationed together 1975 - 1977 onboard USS Tringa (ASR-16). Joe was a SeaBee and may have gone to Port Hueneme, CA to retire. Anyone knowing of Joe's whereabouts - please contact Don at email above.