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	Carl Brashear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carl Maxie Brashear (January 19, 1931 – July 25, 2006) was the first African American to become a U.S. Navy Master Diver in the early 1950s.
		Brashear was born in Tonieville, Larue County, Kentucky, the child of sharecroppers.
		Brashear retired from the U.S. Navy in 1979 as a Master Chief Petty Officer (E-9) and Master Diver.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carl_Brashear (590 words)

	Deep Sea Diving Locker. Information for and about U.S. Navy Deep Sea Divers.
		Brashear's struggle to convince the Naval Bureau of Medicine and Surgery to allow him to continue diving is an integral part of the story.
		Carl Brashear was born in rural Kentucky in 1931.
		Brashear attained the rank of Chief Petty Officer E7 and worked successfully, but relatively uneventfully, until March 26, 1966, when the determination that he had originally called upon to help him become a Navy diver would seem almost feeble in comparison to the tenacity that he would need in order to stay a Navy diver.
	divinglocker.tripod.com /carlbrashear.htm (2434 words)

	Louisville Scene \| Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Brashear's quest to become a master diver has also been featured on two old TV shows: "To Tell the Truth" in 1978 and "Comeback," a 1980 program that also featured stories about such stars as John Wayne and Brashear's fellow Kentuckian Rosemary Clooney.
		Brashear, 69, is retired and living in Virginia Beach, Va. He served as an adviser on the film, along with two other retired Navy divers.
		Brashear's relatives are eagerly awaiting the movie that will establish their brother as a Navy hero for all to see.
	www.courier-journal.com /scene/movies/features/f20000520brashear.html (2389 words)

	men of Honor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		CARL BRASHEAR's inspiring life story and indomitable spirit are legendary in Navy circles.
		Carl Brashear’s battle to join the unique corps of Navy deep-sea divers and achieve its highest rank was a personal one.
		Brashear went on to a notable career as a Navy Diver.
	www.foxhome.com /menofhonor/carlbrashear/carlbrashear_content.htm (300 words)

	2001 Honorees - Carl M. Brashear
		Brashear was the Navy’s first African-American master diver and the first fl deep-sea diver.
		Brashear’s journey was challenging and fulfilling but filled with racial tension.
		Brashear sacrificed his own health and well being to save the lives of several other sailors by pushing them out of the way of a heavy metal pipe.
	www.dom.com /about/education/strong/2001/carlbrashear.jsp (352 words)

	Carl M. Brashear
		Carl is second from the rigt in the top row.
		Carl clung to life for 6 hours, the time it took to get him to the nearest military hospital.
		Carl had to show that he could still climb a ladder with the weight equivalent to two scuba tanks strapped to his back.
	www.divingheritage.com /brshearkern.htm (1048 words)

	Carl Brashear - Men of Honor
		No, Carl Brashear was not dragged by an enemy sub, nor was there one underwater at all when he was working to recover the bomb.
		They didn't work very well at first because Brashear was in such good physical condition and his leg was such a mass of muscle, a corpsman said later in an interview.
		Carl Brashear had to pass a variety of strenuous physical examinations.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /reelfaces/menofhonor.php (1056 words)

	Men Of Honor
		Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) was born to a poor share cropping family in the Deep South.
		The inspiring biography of Carl Brashear is made in the tradition of John Ford's 1957 movie "The Wings of Eagles" with John Wayne.
		Carl Brashear is a true hero and I'm glad his story is told.
	www.reelingreviews.com /menofhonor.htm (1181 words)

	Carl M. Brashear; Diver Persevered After Amputation
		Carl M. Brashear, 75, the Navy's first fl master deep-sea diver and who later successfully fought to continue his undersea career after he became an amputee, died July 25 at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Va. He had respiratory and heart ailments.
		Brashear joined the Navy in 1948 and endured years of racial taunts, even death threats, as he pushed ahead for what he hoped would be a glamorous diving career.
		Carl Maxie Brashear was born Jan. 19, 1931, in Tonieville, Ky. One of eight children, he left school after the seventh grade to help in his family's tobacco, corn and wheat fields.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/27/AR2006072701715.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries (647 words)

	HAMPTON ROADS Schools
		Brashear talks of the Navy as if it were a lifelong friend.
		Carl dropped out of high school after the seventh grade and, at age 16, was working in a service station in Sonora, Ky. ''I had always wanted to be a military man,'' he recalled.He went first to Fort Knox, intending to enlist in the Army.
		Brashear spent the next three years mastering the math, physics and chemistry needed - receiving his high school equivalency and going beyond.Returning to the school, Carl Brashear graduated third in his class.
	www.hamptonroads.com /schoolzone/bhmbrashear.html (1896 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Men of Honor
		Carl is immediately brandished an outcast by the rest of the trainees (who are all white).
		Carl Brashear is the type of historical figure most children will not learn about in school.
		Brashear is the type of man who is not bitter at his circumstances.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/menofhonor.php (1666 words)

	Men of Honor
		Carl is a dreamer, and he letâs nothing stand in the way of those dreams.
		Carl is able to repay the act of courage later in the story by winning back the recruitâs spot on the team.
		Carl saves the life of a fellow trainee, and is silent when a coward accepts the medal for it (though everyone else knows who the real hero is).
	www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0000296.cfm (873 words)

	Vanderbilt University: The Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center: Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Brashear explained how a common man was able to demonstrated uncommon valor and leadership within a newly desegregated United States Navy after World War II.
		Brashear taught those that attended the lecture that good leadership is learned from good role models, and credits his mother and father with modeling the strength of character that is the basis for his current fame.
		Brashear added that leadership is also the presence of mind and triumph of spirit that comes from a commitment to a cause or higher calling.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /bcc/events/2001/brashear.html (210 words)

	ARTICLE: Pioneering Navy diver Carl Brashear dies in Portsmouth (The Virginian-Pilot - HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com)
		Carl Brashear was the Navy’s first fl deep sea diver, the first fl man to attain master diver and the first amputee to be restored to active duty.
		Brashear’s son Phillip took emergency leave from his duties as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot serving in Iraq to be with his father at the end.
		Brashear was awarded the Navy-Marine Corps Medal for heroism for shoving the sailor out of the way of the pipe aboard the Hoist — one of almost a dozen decorations and medals he received in his career.
	home.hamptonroads.com /stories/story.cfm?story=108110&ran=175615&tref=po (2082 words)

	DVD Review - Men of Honor: Special Edition
		Brashear grew up in the '30s and '40s, part of a family of crop sharers who had a history of poor education and poverty.
		Because Brashear's one ambition as a child was to become a Master Chief Diver in the Navy, at the age of 17 he left home to pursue his dreams.
		Brashear's persistence and bravery was born from the idea that everybody around him told him he could never achieve his dreams.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews2/menofhonor.html (1213 words)

	DVD Review - Men Of Honor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		But racism is rampant even among these elite and Carl must hold his own against his fellow trainees, Master Chief Sunday, and even the base commander who is out to sabotage his training at every available opportunity.
		Carl goes on to become a senior diver and, in the film’s most exciting sequence, must recover a nuclear bomb dropped into the Mediterranean Sea by a wounded B-52.
		During this daring mission, Brashear comes to the rescue of his fellow divers and suffers a serious injury as a result of his heroic actions.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/men_of_honor.shtml (1283 words)

	The Movie Review Section:'Honor'-able and inspirational 11/10/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Brashear's test is rigged to make it almost impossible to pass.
		The ugliest opponent of Brashear's dream is "Mister Pappy" (Hal Holbrook), the commanding officer of the group, who seems like a cross between Ahab and Queeg.
		The secret of Carl Brashear's success is not complicated: He won't give up, he won't go away, and eventually his very presence shames Navy men who cannot deny his ability.
	www.polkonline.com /entertainment/stories/111000/mov_men-of-honor.html (711 words)

	Temple University Ambler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Carl Brashear has a piece of advice for anyone facing life’s challenges.
		Brashear left Sonara, Kentucky, at the age of 17 and joined the Navy in 1948 — the same year President Harry Truman desegregated the U.S. military.
		Brashear graduated and moved on to study with the deep-sea diving aparatus, the Mark V, which could weigh up to 290 pounds.
	www.temple.edu /ambler/news/0203releases/81--springncsummary.htm (1211 words)

	Carl M. Brashear, 75, Navy diver - Obituary - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Brashear was tasked with recovering a hydrogen bomb that dropped into waters off Spain when two U.S. Air Force planes collided.
		Brashear was struck below his left knee by a pipe that the crew was using to hoist the bomb out of the water.
		Brashear was airlifted to a naval hospital, where the bottom of his left leg was amputated to avoid gangrene.
	washingtontimes.com /obituary/20060727-103429-9071r.htm (463 words)

	All Hands - February 2000 - The Unlikeliest Hero
		Brashear had come a long way to even be aboard Hoist that terrible day.
		Educated in small, segregated, rural Kentucky schools of the 1940s, Brashear left behind his roots and a future of plowing the soil for a life at sea in 1948.
		In another scene that goes back to his childhood, Brashear was shocked with a trip back in time during a visit to the set where the crew recreated his old home on the farm.
	www.mediacen.navy.mil /pubs/allhands/feb00/pg22.htm (1423 words)

	Men of Honor - Movie Preview
		“I follow Carl’s life and career, but my goal was to be true to his spirit, not his shirt size,” explains Smith, giving some hint of the humour he has brought to bear on a tale of struggle and heroism.
		In Smith’s ‘elevated’ version, Brashear (played in the movie by Cuba Gooding Jr), starts out as the son of a Tennessee dirt farmer, whose major piece of advice to his son is “Never quit: be the best”.
		Brashear - an extremely strong swimmer with the ability to hold his breath for over four minutes - is determined that deep-sea diving is where his career is headed.
	www.preview-online.com /march_april2001/feature_articles/menofhonor/index.html (681 words)

	NPR : Pioneering Navy Diver Carl Brashear Dies at 75
		In 2001, Carl Brashear attended a ceremony related to the film Men of Honor aboard the USS Bunker Hill.
		Brashear's story about battling racism in the newly desegregated U.S. military of the late 1940s was told in the 2000 film Men of Honor.
		Brashear died of heart failure at a Navy Medical Center in Portsmouth Virginia.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5585788 (229 words)

	men of Honor
		As a diver, Brashear's universe was 300 feet underwater, where he breathed a mixture of gasses, connected to the surface by a fragile hose.
		While much of his screenplay is inspired by true incidents in Brashear's life, Smith did invent the character of Billy Sunday, whom he calls "a memorable opponent" representing a composite of various Navy men whom Brashear met during his career.
		When Carl marries Jo, they struggle to hold their family unit together, while he strives to be a Navy Diver, and she a doctor.
	www.foxhome.com /menofhonor/castcrew/synopsis_content.htm (1600 words)

	Men of Honor
		Brashear (Carl Lumbly) is a sharecropper, which on the surface means that you share the profits of working the land owned by someone else.
		Young Carl Brashear likes to swim when he is not studying, or working the farm with his father.
		Here, when Carl is looking for a US nuclear bomb on the ocean floor, a "finders keepers" search along with the Russians, he finds a Coke can, which we not only have to look at but hear it incorporated into the script!
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /2000/id150.htm (979 words)

	1966 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January 17 - Carl Brashear, the first African American United States Navy diver, is involved in an accident on a routine mission which amputates his leg.
		June 8 - An XB-70 Valkyrie prototype is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot.
		NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and USAF test pilot Carl Cross are both killed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1966 (5511 words)

	Post-Hollywood Carl Brashear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Brashear became the first fl Master Diver in the Navy and the first amputee retained on active duty.
		Brashear is one of nine children whose devoted parents were Kentucky sharecroppers, which seems an unlikely background for a diver.
		Brashear joined the Navy in 1948 and completed his GED around 1954.
	www-tradoc.army.mil /casemate/stack/020704brasher.htm (1492 words)

	Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Man Of Honor
		Brashear died at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth of respiratory and heart failure, the medical center said.
		In 1966 Brashear was assigned to recover a hydrogen bomb that dropped into waters off of Spain when two U.S. Air Force planes collided.
		During the mission Brashear was struck below his left knee by a pipe that the crew was using to hoist the bomb out of the water.
	belowthebeltway.com /2006/07/25/man-of-honor (567 words)

	Master Chief Petty Officer Carl M. Brashear \| Redstate
		“Carl Brashear, the US Navy diver whose life story inspired the blockbuster movie Men of Honour, has died aged 75.
		Born in 1931 to a sharecropper family in Kentucky, Brashear joined the American Navy aged 17, in 1948 and battled institutional racism to become the first African-American US Navy diver.
		In 1970 Brashear was promoted to the highest-ranking Navy diver position of master diver after completing dives deeper than 300m while being evaluated for five weeks at the Experimental Diving Unit in Washington.
	www.redstate.com /story/2006/7/26/152916/630 (616 words)

	Alumni News-Brashear Obit
		The pioneer military diver, Carl Brashear, the Navy's first African-American deep-sea diver, died July 25, 2006 at the age of 75.
		Carl, as it turns out, died at Portsmouth (VA) Naval Medical Center, the same hospital where he recovered from a diving accident in 1966 that cost him his leg.
		The eldest Brashear, born in Kentucky in 1931, joined the Navy in 1948 and overcame racism, exclusion and resistance during his pursuits as a diver to become one of only seven enlisted men in history to be enshrined in Naval Archives.
	www.bluefield.edu /templates/cusbluefield/details.asp?id=30250&PID=289427 (829 words)

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