Everything starts as a dream.  We were attending a funeral of a diver shipmate at Miramar National Cemetery about three years ago.  The deceased had been a member of Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit ONE Reserve Detachment 419 San Diego.  Although the unit was disbanded in 2007, many of the former members still stayed close.  As we passed the three monuments that were at the cemetery (Navy Nurses, SEABEES, and Jewish Servicemen) one member said, “There should be a monument to Navy Divers here.”

That is how the idea came about.  We soon learned that monuments do not grow out of the ground themselves.  We learned that one must Make things happen… but being Navy Divers, we knew we could make anything happen.