This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO – John Spence, a diver often ...

As the sun rises over the Port of Long Beach, two hard-hat divers step off the edge of a harbor patrol dive boat and splash into the murky waters a half-mile offshore. Their mission: to investigate ...

Donna Tobias personified bravery, whether she was a Navy hard-hat diver deep beneath the sea, or battling chronic illnesses, both physical and mental. She was born May 22, 1952, and grew up in ...

The perception at the time was that hard-hat divers of the 1930s and 1940s had a glamorous job, walking the floor of Monterey Bay in watertight diving suits and bronze helmets, breathing air pumped ...