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SUPSALV Conducts Change of Office and Retirement Ceremony

Navy NewsStand

Story Number: NNS081005-09
Release Date: 10/5/2008 5:31:00 PM

From Naval Sea Systems Command Public Affairs

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The U.S. Navy's Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV), a Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) directorate, held a change of office and retirement ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard Sept. 29.

Capt. Patrick J. Keenan relieved Capt. Richard Hooper. Hooper retired after 28 years of naval service.

NAVSEA's Commander, Vice Adm. Kevin McCoy, gave the ceremony's keynote address. McCoy recognized Hooper's exemplary service and recent accomplishments, including diving and salvage support for the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis and post-Hurricane Ike debris removal from the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near Galveston, Texas.

Hooper thanked his colleagues and family who helped him during the course of his career and complimented the men and women of the office of the Supervisor of Salvage Diving for their talent and esprit de corps noting that, "SUPSALV provides direct technical support to 10 percent of the fleet on any given day."

Keenan also acknowledged Hooper's years of service to SUPSALV and the U.S. Navy.

Keenan previously served as the director of the Naval Construction and Engineering Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Other duty stations included officer in charge, U.S. Navy Ship Repair Unit Bahrain; commanding officer, Navy Experimental Diving Unit; and 7th Fleet salvage officer.

For more news from Naval Sea Systems Command, visit www.navy.mil/local/navsea/.