Carl Brashear
Carl "Maxie" Brashear
Staying down was not an option in the eyes of Carl "Maxie" Brashear. There was too much to accomplish.
T-AKE 7
USNS Carl Brashear
The seventh Lewis and Clark class Auxiliary Dry Cargo ship was given the name of Carl Brashear.
Challenge Coin
New Commemorative Coin
This commemorative coin has been released to honor the extraordinary life of this American Hero.
Navy Salvage School
A sharecropper's son with minimal formal schooling, Mr. Brashear joined the Navy in 1948 and endured years of racial taunts, even death threats, as he pushed ahead for what he hoped would be a glamorous diving career.
While on an aircraft carrier in 1950, he saw a mission to salvage a fighter plane that had fallen overboard.
"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."
Links
Links to several press releases, blog reports, and interviews given by the Brashear family
News & Events
- Naval Support Activity Speech
CW4 Phillip Brashear was invited to speak at the Naval Support Activity in Panama City, Florida for the annual Black History Celebration for the Naval Surface Warfare Center on February 5, 2013.
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- VA Medical Center Donation
On October 4th 2012, the Carl Brashear Foundation presented a donation in the amount of $1000 to the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond Va.
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- Men of Honor Screening
On February 10th, 2012 the Pentagon in Washington D.C. honored the late Master Chief and Master Diver Carl Brashear with a movie viewing of 'Men of Honor' in the Pentagon auditorium.
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