the Emperor Alexander III issued a decree on 5 may 1882 ordered the founding of a diving school in Kronstadt, where he was to cook “experienced in diving officers and lower ranks for ship needs and underwater mine works”. By the way, this school was the first in the world.
the Divers of Regardie leading his chronicle, 3 March 1978, when it was formed by marine military unit of internal troops MVD of the USSR.
Official representative of Regardie Valery Gribakin told the “Russian newspaper” that today the diving division office solve a fairly wide range of tasks. In particular, they carry out anti-sabotage inspection of soil in areas adjacent to protected objects. Frogmen inspect the underwater part of hydraulic structures, ships and boats. They are searching for mine-explosive devices, are involved in their destruction and disposal. Valery Gribakin has informed that only from the beginning of 2020 divers of Regardie examined 894 437 square meters of bottom waters, 638 underwater objects, 150 hulls, 131 hydraulic structure.
they Faced with the “echoes of war”, which, fortunately, was not performed. Each month divers of Regardie detect mines and torpedoes during the great Patriotic war. Just last year found more than 60 different munitions of the time.
of Course, the diving division of Regardie are preparing to participate in the activities related to the security of the Kerch bridge. Training is conducted at the training center of national guard troops of the Russian Federation in Severobaikalsk. Here educated and trained experts-divers not only for naval units of Regardie, but also for other law enforcement agencies of the countries on the major diving qualifications – “the diver”, “the instructor-the diver”, “senior instructor-the diver”, “the officer-diver” and additional – “diver-bomber”, “combat swimmer”.
