Fleet Week at The New York Aquarium Includes Navy Underwater Events

Barbara Russo -

The Wildlife Conservation Society’s New York Aquarium is the place to be this Memorial Day weekend as Navy Divers make a splash in celebration of Fleet Week.

Navy divers who support Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) will hold an exciting and educational diving exhibition at the aquarium Friday through Sunday, May 27 – 29.

Aquarium-goers are invited to watch as these expert divers show off unique Navy diving capabilities that keep America safe. Learn about open-circuit SCUBA and closed-circuit MK-16 re-breather diving systems, both commonly used by Navy EOD divers for fleet operations. All demonstrations will be narrated, and Navy officials will be available to answer questions from the public. The demonstrations will take place near the aquarium plaza.

Between each exhibition, visitors can stop by the new Conservation Hall and Glover’s Reef exhibits, home to beautiful, exotic animals native to the waters of Belize, African freshwater lakes, the Pacific Ocean’s coral triangle, and the Amazonian rain forests of Brazil.

U.S. Navy EOD is the world’s premier combat force for countering IEDs, weapons of mass destruction, and mine countermeasures. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technicians render safe all types of ordnance, both conventional and unconventional, improvised, chemical, biological, and nuclear to include Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). They perform on land and underwater to locate, identify, render-safe, and recover (or dispose) of foreign and domestic ordnance.

Divers in the U.S. Navy are members of the community in the Navy who are qualified in underwater open/closed circuit breathing apparatus, deep sea type diving apparatus and saturation (surface supplied) diving. Navy Divers are the foremost experts in all types of diving operations in the U.S. military and serve as the single resource managers for diving technical knowledge and training across the entire Department of Defense (DOD).

Navy EOD and divers are part of Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC). NECC serves as the Navy’s headquarters for all Navy expeditionary capabilities to include: EOD, Seabees, Riverine, Mobile Diving and Salvage, and other expeditionary support capabilities. NECC forces are deployed around the globe in support of a wide range of missions from majot combat operations to humanitarian assistance response.

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