The Diver and the Mermaid: Myers Marine Vintage Dive
Vintage Diving Helmet Underwater Shoot: Josh Myers and the Mermaid Myers Marine Division owner Joshua Myers dove in a restored antique Kirby Morgan helmet during a vintage diving helmet underwater shoot off Santa Catalina Island on October 30, 2021, working beside…
Locating a Dam Discharge Tower in Zero Visibility
Dam Diving at Lake Henshaw: Relocating a Discharge Tower in Black Water A storm tore the marker buoy off the discharge tower at Henshaw Dam, and the mooring line went with it. What was left was a submerged concrete structure at the base of a working dam in San Diego…
Confined-Space Digester Diving at Hyperion
Keeping Hyperion Online: Confined-Space Digester Diving at LA’s Largest Treatment Plant When a wastewater treatment plant the size of the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant loses a digester, the clock starts running immediately. Hyperion, operated by LA Sanitation and…
Lake Jennings Aeration Valve Repair at 100 Feet
Potable Water Reservoir Diving 100 Feet Down in Lake Jennings Most potable water diving happens inside a tank. A diver decontaminates, drops through a hatch, vacuums sediment off the floor of a clearwell or standpipe, and comes out. Lake Jennings is a different…
Queen Mary Propeller Room Commercial Diving
Commercial Diving the Queen Mary Propeller Room: Coin Recovery and Corrosion Survey in Long Beach The RMS Queen Mary arrived in Long Beach, California on December 9, 1967, ending a 39-day final voyage that took her around Cape Horn. She has not moved since. For more…
Emergency Shipping Container Recovery at the Port of Long Beach
Emergency Shipping Container Recovery at the Port of Long Beach When a terminal operator at the Port of Long Beach dropped a shipping container into the water between a 1,000-foot vessel and the dock, Myers Marine Division was on the phone within minutes. By 1:00…
Shark Cage Rigging Los Angeles: Southwest Commercial
Shark Cage Rigging in Los Angeles: Operating the Lift for a Southwest Airlines Commercial at Cabrillo Way Marina When O Positive scheduled a Southwest Airlines commercial shoot at Cabrillo Way Marina in San Pedro, the production brought its own marine coordinator and…
Yacht Salvage Marina del Rey: The Admiral Recovery
Yacht Salvage in Marina del Rey: Recovering The Admiral From Fire, Mud, and a Second Sinking When the 100-foot luxury yacht The Admiral caught fire and sank in Basin A of Marina del Rey on the evening of September 18, 2024, the U.S. Coast Guard activated a Unified…
UC Riverside Water Tank Inspection | Myers Marine
UC Riverside Water Tank Inspection: A Decade-Overdue Survey of the Campus Potable and Fire Supply UC Riverside operates one of the largest research campuses in the University of California system, and that scale brings infrastructure obligations most students never…
Ballona Creek Interceptor: Commercial Dive Support LA
Commercial Diving Support in Los Angeles: Inside the Ballona Creek Interceptor Marine Operations When The Ocean Cleanup deployed Interceptor 007 at the mouth of Ballona Creek in October 2022, it became the first river-plastic capture device of its kind in the United…