A team of highly specialized divers from CFB Esquimalt is travelling to South Korea for a training mission.
The clearance divers with Fleet Diving Unit Pacific find and dispose of underwater mines.
Military bomb disposal technicians were dispatched to Victoria this week after the organizers of a residential estate sale uncovered a Canadian Army rocket launcher inside the home.
“To provide High-Readiness Clearance Diving teams responsible for delivering Mine Countermeasures Diving, Maritime Explosive Ordnance Disposal and in-water maintenance and repair support worldwide on behalf of the CAF.”This is the mission statement of Fleet Diving Unit Pacific (FDU(P)), where for ten months, the candidates of Clearance Diver Course 0018 and Clearance Diving Officer Course 0020 have been pursuing the ultimate goal of becoming qualified Clearance Divers.
A navy explosives team was called to a national historic site on southern Vancouver Island on Sunday after a Second World War-era mortar was discovered.