“A Navy diver with helmet and diving suit was sent out to the ship and went down about 50 feet to attach lines to the plane,” Mr. Brashear once told a Norfolk reporter. “Everyone on ship was looking at him. No one had ever paid much attention to me. I immediately thought that diving was something I wanted to do.”

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