03-11-2008, 01:03 PM
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|  Ship to be named after Navy's first black deep-sea diver
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - A new cargo ship will bear the name of the Navy's first black deep-sea diver.
Carl Brashear joined the Navy in 1948 when he was 17 years old. 1 of 6 children born to a sharecropper in Kentucky, he dreamed of becoming a Navy diver. No blacks were Navy divers at the time.
Brashear remained determined and made his way into the service, eventually retiring as a Master Chief Petty Officer in 1979.
He died at age 75 in 2006.
Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. portrayed Brashear in the 2000 film "Men of Honor."
Naval officials say they will name a Military Sealift Command dry cargo ship after the pioneer.
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