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Mine Counter Measures (MCM) and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD): The RAN's diver training program is centred on a 10-day clearance diver acceptance test (CDAT), colloquially known as "hell week". [28] [29] [19] [30] [5] Clearance Divers need to successfully pass the Army Special Forces Screen Test and then successfully complete specific elements of Commando Reinforcement Training before serving in either the water platoon as an assaulter or in the water sniper team in the sniper platoon. Confidential Admiralty Fleet Order 341/1948 (Renaming of 'P' Party divers as Clearance Divers (Divers (C)) Admiralty Fleet Order 857/52 (Introduction of CD Specialisation) Defence Council Instruction … identification and disposal of Mines underwater”. The course has been known to have a 100% failure rate in the past, though usually around 40% of trainees will make it successfully through to the end. The following 73 files are in this category, out of 73 total. 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A frogman is someone who is trained in scuba diving or swimming underwater in a tactical capacity that includes police or military work. The Royal Australian Naval Reserve has eight Reserve Diving Teams (ANRDT) which provide supplementary or surge capability in support of regular CDTs in addition to localised fleet underwater taskings: [15] [16], The Clearance Diving Branch force elements are: [17] [Note 1], 1.