Official US Navy Medical Tech Dive Pin Patch — U.S. Navy Medical Technician Diver Insignia Embroidered Patch
Where medicine meets the deep — the Navy Medical Tech Dive pin, honoring the Sailors who combine medical expertise with diving operations to save lives above and below the surface.
The U.S. Navy Medical Technician Diver insignia represents one of the most unique and demanding specialties in naval medicine. Navy Medical Technicians who earn the diving qualification undergo rigorous training that combines the already demanding Hospital Corpsman curriculum with the Navy's dive school pipeline, producing a specialist who can provide medical treatment in hyperbaric environments, support diving operations, and treat dive-related injuries and illnesses including decompression sickness, arterial gas embolism, and nitrogen narcosis.
Navy divers who serve in the medical technician role operate in some of the most challenging environments in military medicine. They serve at Navy diving commands, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) units, Special Warfare commands, and aboard submarine rescue vessels, providing medical support to divers during training and operational dives. These medical tech divers operate recompression chambers, administer hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and serve as the primary medical authority during dive operations — their knowledge of diving physiology and emergency medicine makes them indispensable to any command that puts personnel underwater.
The dive pin worn by Navy medical technicians is a mark of distinction that represents hundreds of hours of training in both medicine and diving operations. This embroidered patch faithfully reproduces the insignia, allowing qualified medical tech divers to display their hard-earned qualification on flight suits, uniforms, and gear.
Perfect For: Navy Medical Technician Divers, Hospital Corpsmen with diving qualifications, Navy dive community members, submarine rescue personnel, and military diving insignia collectors.
Navy Medical Tech Divers — healing hands in the deep, keeping divers alive from the surface to the seafloor.