A Scottish clearance diver has been awarded an MBE in the King’s New Year Honours.
Leading Seaman (Diver) Rory Cartwright-Taylor is part of the Royal Navy’s Diving & Threat Exploitation Group (DTXG), based at Faslane on Scotland’s west coast. The DTXG consists of small, specialist mission teams that carry out tasks ranging from explosive disposal of historic ordnance around the UK to sea mine-clearance in other parts of the world, as well as carrying out emergency underwater maintenance on surface warships and submarines.
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Source: DiverNet