Capt Jim Wyatt
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After spending a few days with NetDoc and Mselenaous on Key Largo they convinced me I should do some blogging about my diving and share some photos. It sounds like a fun task.
Starting out are some old photos of me
The first photo is of me and some of my shipmates on the Spiegel Grove. That is me on the far right. I served as Gunnery Officer on the SG for a couple of years.
The next image is of the sea state on the dive site of the Spiegel Grove on 2/15/14. I always love diving the Grove.
A couple of things to clear up on the Spiegel Grove -- On the ship there is a little room overlooking the well deck and where the flight deck used to be. It has a flag flying from it. This room also has a birds eye view of the cranes.
This little room was called Pri-Fly, or Primary Flight control. The officer who directed the one or two helicopters landing was stationed in that room. This room was not used for crane operations.
The Spiegel Grove was also used as a training platform for Delta force commandos in response to the 1985 hijacking of the MS Achille Lauro. It was very cool watching the helicopters fly in on the deck of the sea, pop up and dump commandos on deck within a VERY FEW seconds after we heard them approach.
This image is of me in a US Navy Mk 14 surface supplied dive rig. I had a blast going through the four month long Navy Basic Diving Officer school in Panama City Beach, Florida.
Ensign Wyatt in 1983.
For those of you that know me I am more into cave diving these days, but that interest is not more important to me than nice reefs and wrecks. I am looking forward to getting more reef and wreck diving in in the future.
Starting out are some old photos of me
The first photo is of me and some of my shipmates on the Spiegel Grove. That is me on the far right. I served as Gunnery Officer on the SG for a couple of years.
The next image is of the sea state on the dive site of the Spiegel Grove on 2/15/14. I always love diving the Grove.
A couple of things to clear up on the Spiegel Grove -- On the ship there is a little room overlooking the well deck and where the flight deck used to be. It has a flag flying from it. This room also has a birds eye view of the cranes.
This little room was called Pri-Fly, or Primary Flight control. The officer who directed the one or two helicopters landing was stationed in that room. This room was not used for crane operations.
The Spiegel Grove was also used as a training platform for Delta force commandos in response to the 1985 hijacking of the MS Achille Lauro. It was very cool watching the helicopters fly in on the deck of the sea, pop up and dump commandos on deck within a VERY FEW seconds after we heard them approach.
This image is of me in a US Navy Mk 14 surface supplied dive rig. I had a blast going through the four month long Navy Basic Diving Officer school in Panama City Beach, Florida.
Ensign Wyatt in 1983.
For those of you that know me I am more into cave diving these days, but that interest is not more important to me than nice reefs and wrecks. I am looking forward to getting more reef and wreck diving in in the future.