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Mar 30 12 tweets 12 min read
Divers are amongst the most elite of all sailors and soldiers. A tough selection process and tougher day to day environment? Which are the different diving units in India?

#IndianNavy #IndianArmy #IndianCoastGuard

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[01] Unsurprisingly the Indian Navy has the largest, most experienced and well equipped diving cadre in the country. Navy divers are also the talent pool for MARCOS special forces.

Navy divers, and in fact divers across all services are graduates of the elite Diving School at Kochi.
Indian Navy maintains Command Clearance Diving Teams (CCDT) in all commands. Aside from clearance diving divers also perform EOD and Mine Clearance.
[02] #IndianCoastGuard too has divers - primarily for clearance diving
[03] #IndianArmy divers - found in the special forces for sabotage and counter terrorism.
[04] National Security Guard (NSG) - Combat Diving Team

#Blackcats
[05] CAPFs - CISF, BSF and especially NDRF have recently has started sending batches of trainees to Diving School.
High Altitude (!) Diving Course by Navy. Wonder how forces in the world have this type of training.

Most CAPFs have a fairly large "marine" component as well. Cited in this thread here:

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2. Action was only to signal capability (stated reason)

3. Both

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3. No anecdotes from history

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