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Source: http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/News/today/10/08/0901.htm
The IDF Underwater Missions Unit
(Israel Defense Forces) The Israeli Navy has released photographs of the work of its Underwater Missions Unit. The unit is mobilized to disable explosive devices discovered at sea, repair the external parts of ships in the water, and clean up after maritime accidents. "Our level of diving today is among the best in the world," claims unit commander Maj. Oren, whose duties include the controlled explosion of explosive material left in the sea from the 1940s. "If our enemies plant mines in the water, we have to clean it up." At the beginning of the year, the unit was called to deal with barrels of explosives launched from Gaza, and in April the unit pulled a Grad rocket out of the Gulf of Eilat. "In the Dead Sea we found ourselves dealing with anti-personnel blast mines that remain from the War of Independence and were revealed with the receding of the sea," explained Maj. Oren.