US Navy Damage Controlman 1ST Class John Frush assists a diver into his suite during preparations for Surface Decompression on Oxygen dives, at the TWA Flight 800 crash site 120 feet below. Although Frush is not a diver, everyone on the Navys salvage rescue ship USS GRASP (ARS 51) assists in the safe "dressing" of divers and the handling of their "umbilicals" as they move about the ocean floor. The boots weigh less than 10 pounds each; most of the diver's weights are carried in his Integrated Diving Vest (IDV), which also holds emergency air, referred to as "come home bottle". TWA flight 800 crahed in the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, New York, on July 17, 1996
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: USS Grasp (ARS 51)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Glen J. Hurd, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
26/07/1996
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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