The Westchester, New York, native was the only Black person and the only woman among eight soldiers, and more than 20 others, in her 1982 class at the U.S. Navy Deep Sea Diving and Salvage ...

New York City — In 1982, now retired Master Sgt. Andrea Motley Crabtree became the U.S. Army's first female deep-sea diver, and the first Black female deep-sea diver across all U.S. military ...

Carl Brashear joined the Navy in 1948, and became the service’s first black deep sea diver in 1953. Members of the crew, which is experiencing shipyard life while the Iwo Jima undergoes a ...