Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One (MDSU-1) Sailors participated in a community relations (COMREL) project at the Oklahoma Aquarium, Sept. 26, during Oklahoma City Navy Week.

The highlight of the COMREL included three of the Navy divers, Navy Diver 1st Class Kristoph Carey and Devin Wilhelms and Navy Diver 2nd Class Joshua Davis, volunteering to dive into the aquarium's reef tank to feed fish, clean the tank and interact with parents and their children in attendance.

"It means a lot to me personally," said Carey. "To be able to interact with the marine life and the kids to witness that makes it special to them."

The Navy divers wanted to make sure that the kids not only learned about the marine life but that they also came away with a better appreciation for American history.

"Navy history, specifically with our divers who were present in the aftermath of the attacks at Pearl Harbor, isn't just Navy history. It is American history and its important the kids learn it," said Chief Navy Diver Donald R. Acker, sporting a World War II era diving suit as he addressed the crowd.

"Our whole mission is education about our aquatic environment," said Teri Bowers, the executive director at the aquarium. "There are a lot of careers in that field and this type of event helps open the kids eyes beyond what our education exhibits can do."

MDSU-1 is one of the Navy's premier diving and salvage units, prepared to rapidly deploy combat-ready, expeditionary warfare capable, specialized dive teams to conduct harbor and waterway clearance, emergent underwater repairs and salvage operations in all environments.

Navy Weeks focus a variety of assets, equipment and personnel on a single city for a week-long series of engagements designed to bring America's Navy closer to the people it protects, in cities without a significant naval presence.