U.S. Army Divers with the 7th Engineer Dive Detachment, 84th Engineer Battalion, 130th Engineer Brigade, conduct preventive maintenance and checks on some of the U.S. Navy’s underwater cables at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, August 09, 2019. The mission allowed the divers to inspect, repair, and extend the life cycle of the cables and showed how divers sustain the joint force.

(U.S. Army video by Staff Sgt. Kevin Martin and Spc. Geordan Tyquiengco)

Transcript

[Connor] Here at the Pacific Missile Range Facility we’re doing inspections, preventative maintenance, and minor repairs on PMRF’s massive network of underwater communications cables and hydrophones.

[Nicholas] I like how it pushes you to be better than yourself the last day prior so you wake up in the morning and you know, you decide I want to go to work, but you’re gonna go to work with a goal in mind to beat that guy that beat you yesterday, to clock in the most bottom time that you can. It’s just all about bettering yourself every single day.

[Connor] The Seventh Dive Detachment is the only Army Dive Detachment in the Pacific AOR, so we’re a theater level asset and we’re so small and we’re trained in such a broad spectrum of operations. We can get a team on the ground and accomplishing the mission extremely quickly.