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Australian Clearance Diver relaxing during missile attack warning.
He is wearing full individual protective equipment in case incoming
missiles contained chemical agent. AUSCDT THREE went to this level
of protection eleven times in first twenty-four hours of the war.
A reduced level of cover, without gloves and mask, was subsequently
worn constantly for a week.
(Date taken: March 2003)
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Petty
Officer Clearance Diver Troy Pudney from Australian Clearance
Diving Team Three probes his way to an item of unexploded ordnance
(in a potential mine danger area) on the Al Faw peninsula, Iraq
April 2003.
(Date
taken: April 2003)
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A
diver checks the radio as his team mate keeps watch.
(Date
taken: April 2003)
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An
Australian Clearance Diver from AUSCDT3 approaching Unexploded Ordnance
with a landmine detector through a potential mine field in the Iraqi
desert, April 2003.
(Date
taken: April 2003)
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Australian
Clearance Divers from AUSCDT3 exit the murky waters of Khawr Az
Zubayr after conducting a wharf search in April 2003.
(Date
taken: April 2003)
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An
Australian Clearance Diving Tactical EOD Patrol watches a MK 82
bomb disposal in the Iraqi Desert, April 2003.
(Date
taken: April 2003)
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Iraqi
Mine Layers, the one on the left carring live mines, alongside Port
of Umm Qasr, Iraq March 2003. It was a vessel similar to this that
Australian Clearance Divers searched for, located and removed mines
from.
(Date
taken: March 2003)
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An
Australian Clearance Diver at Al Basrah Naval Base, April 2003.
(Date
taken: April 2003)
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A
member of AUSCDT3 guards an ammunition cache found during a security
sweep of Al Basrah Naval Base, April 2003.
(Date
taken: April 2003)
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Petty
Officer Clearance Diver Troy Pudney from Australian Clearance Diving
Team Three inspects sea mines in wooden packing cases, Khawr Az
Zubayr helicopter port facility, Iraq April 2003.
(Date
taken: April 2003)
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Petty
Officer Clearance Diver Troy Pudney from Australian Clearance Diving
Team Three inspects sea mines in wooden packing cases, Khawr Az
Zubayr helicopter port facility, Iraq April 2003.
(Date
taken: April 2003)
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Low
visibility water that divers were forced to work in.
(Date
taken: April 2003)
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Clearance
Divers from AUSCDT3 leave the water after a search for mines at
Khawr Az Zubayr, Iraq April 2003. (Able Seaman John Jarvis (on ladder),
Able Seaman John ‘Tug’ Wilson (approaching ladder) as Leading Seaman
Oliver Sattin looks on).
(Date
taken: April 2003)
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Clearance
Divers from Australian Clearance Diving Team Three preparing to
search a wharf in the port of Umm Qasr, Iraq April 2003.
(Date
taken: April 2003)
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Australian
Clearance Divers survey 25 Iraqi LUGM sea mines discovered in a
field near the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr in March 2003.
(Date
taken: March 2003)
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