While their families got sick from contaminated water, these Navy divers were tasked with fixing it

TL;DR - After nearly 20,000 gallons of fuel leaked into the Navy’s water supply in Hawaii, Navy divers were tasked with finding the problem they saw coming out of their water faucets at home.

Divers with Pearl Harbor’s Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One (MDSU1) became “unlikely first-responders” to the November fuel leak at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, according to a report from the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. But this assignment was different. They were seeing the impacts of the problem they were trying to fix in their own homes, where some of the their family members were seeing symptoms of exposure.

August 10, 2022: While their families got sick from contaminated water, these Navy divers were tasked with fixing it, Task & Purpose