No. As I understand it, Bloomer was ship's company on that boat (but I could be wrong, the assignment of people within 'special projects' was not blabbed around much). Likely, he was a 'support' diver -- one of the guys who worked the hangar and got the combat swimmers and projects guys and their gear in and out.
As to the picture: It was a practice for diver's of the period to ware 'greens'. Lots of green on the pier. I assume a mix of ships company and, 'riders'.
Before all that, when we were on the YOSEMITE, Bloomer and me worked on some modeling projects together (he did the metal turning, I did the woodwork). We were the terrors of the pattern and machine shops on that tender. Though not a diver at that point, Bloomer was attached to the dive-locker where he worked as our boat engineer. God, we were so frig'n young! He came to us after submitting a request to attend dive-school -- he was dumped in our lap to find out how serious he was about it. We kicked him around a bit, and he just kept on asking for more. He was the real deal, as it turned out. A good man.
M
As to the picture: It was a practice for diver's of the period to ware 'greens'. Lots of green on the pier. I assume a mix of ships company and, 'riders'.
Before all that, when we were on the YOSEMITE, Bloomer and me worked on some modeling projects together (he did the metal turning, I did the woodwork). We were the terrors of the pattern and machine shops on that tender. Though not a diver at that point, Bloomer was attached to the dive-locker where he worked as our boat engineer. God, we were so frig'n young! He came to us after submitting a request to attend dive-school -- he was dumped in our lap to find out how serious he was about it. We kicked him around a bit, and he just kept on asking for more. He was the real deal, as it turned out. A good man.
M
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