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NORFOLK, Va. (Tribune News Service) — A team of  Little Creek-based Navy Seabee divers is back from a three-week mission in  Tunisia — the first joint operation with Tunisian divers since before the Arab Spring brought democracy to that North African nation. The dozen sailors from Underwater Construction Team One worked with 12  Tunisian Navy divers, introducing them to operating with diving gear supplied from the surface as well as underwater welding and metal-cutting. The divers a...

Divers from Tunisian, U.S. navies conduct first joint exercise in a decade By (0) Divers from the U.S. and Tunisian navies on March 11 conducted their first bilateral dive engagement together in nearly a decade in Bizerte, Tunisia, the Pentagon officials said on Tuesday. Photo courtesy U.S. Navy April 6 (UPI) -- Divers from the U.S. and Tunisian navies recently completed the first bilateral dive engagement between the two countries in nearly a decade, the U.S. Navy announced Tuesday. The enga...

The bilateral dive engagement featured surface supplied diving, underwater welding, recompression chamber operations, hydrographic survey techniques and maritime infrastructure assessments.  “The activities focused on combined diving operations and subject matter expert exchanges that enabled both navies to improve their proficiency as well as be ready to work together in the future,” said LTJG William Pelger, UCT 1 officer in charge. The maritime infrastructure assessments ...