Posted on 07/31/2017 1:50:02 PM PDT by NorCoGOP
Norfolk, Va. The Navys search for a possible diver who was trespassing in the waters surrounding the piers at Naval Station, Norfolk, will likely continue for some time, a Navy official said.
They are still searching for the possible diver, said Kelly Wirfel, spokeswoman for Naval Station Norfolk in an email around 2:30 p.m. Monday.
It will most likely take some time until they can clear the entire area, Wirfel said.
Norfolks piers and ships were put on lock down Monday morning after reports of a possible diver in the water.
At 9 a.m. this morning a shipboard watch stander reported a possible diver in the water, said Kelly Wirfel, spokeswoman for Naval Station Norfolk. That sighting was confirmed by multiple other watch standers and the situation is still under investigation.
Wirfel said the Navy Criminal Investigation Service, Navy explosive ordnance disposal, Naval Station Norfolk base security and fire departments are still on scene investigating.
All piers remain on lockdown and ships are in a security alert status, she said.
The base itself is not locked down, only the piers, she said. It remains unclear when the lockdown will be lifted.
Stay tuned to Navy times for further information as it becomes available.
Drug traffickers seem to have no problem evading security. And There are a million places in Hampton Roads to slip into the harbor undetected.
No need for grenades—SONAR at close range will do just fine.
One of the Awan brothers? ;-)
Somebody on this thread mentioned something about that. What you said confirmed what I thought.
I’d be willing to help with the surgery.
Oh man. No joke.
I took the PADI basic open water diving course as a PE course in fall 1976. Our instructor was a USN UDT Viet Nam veteran. FWIIW, he told us that when he went through his Navy UDT training, there was a life-size photo of Bridges in his SCUBA gear with the tag line - "This man failed frogman school." Bridges' Wikipedia entry states that he enlisted and served in the USCG during WWII.
You don’t think it’s some dumbass looking for lobsters?
That's zero nine hundred hours, landlubber!
crabs man, blue crabs in the Chesapeake
Lobsters? Not in that part of the Chesapeake. Crabs, maybe...
Maybe it was Rosie on her way to Canada!!!
one ping, one ping only..........
Isn’t a situation like this what naval dolphins are trained to handle?
Give me one ping and only one ping.
< /Mandelbaum >
If he was willing to put his head underwater in the Elizabeth River, then had to be a kamikazi diver.
In Florida, lobster everywhere
“Navy spokeswoman Kelly Wirfel said several sailors on watch at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia briefly saw the person Monday in the water near the secured piers.”
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