b'team as a part of the fire department at Lakehurstprograms. Such amazing and important history for NAS. The team was termed Navy Lakehurst Firelocals and history buffs alike.Department Underwater Search and Recovery Team. Jim Caldwell and his son Stephan are currently In one of the many interviews for the film, thisworking on opening a diving museum named Navy UDT diver spoke about the recovery missionAbove and Below in Toms River. They hope to of the ZPG -3W Reliance airship that went down open in late spring. They plan to showcase historical off the NJ coast in July of 1960.Caldwell recalleddiving items and artifacts that Jim had collected of the event, over his many years of diving.At the news of the airship crash, helicoptersJims film Jim Caldwell in Depth, has recently left from Lakehurst Naval Air Station, home of thebeen completed and screened for the first time in giant airship, of course, to the scene to report onToms River during a party on his birthday this year.the accident.Upon receiving updating reports,if you are interested in viewing the film, we have salvage ships were sent from Philadelphia andtwo upcoming screenings, one in Toms River at Norfolk, Virginia. Diving operations were startedOcean County College, and one in the Highlands, the following day from the U.S.S. Kiowa. CaldwellMonmouth County at Clerks director Kevin Smiths said, Upon orders from the Navy, the first concernSmodcastle theater.was the recovery of the missing men that were lostWe hope to have Jim in attendance if he is feeling aboard the airship. up to it. These screenings will take place this He recounted his thoughts while he had beenspring, exact dates pending. diving on this mission, saying; If you are interested in attending a screening, After working on the airships and seeing soplease reach out to email NLHS VP Prof. Jennifer many of them flying around our area, to see thisSuwak at RoamingDingoProductions@gmail.com or ship sitting on the bottom of the ocean totallyvisit Roaming Dingo Productions website for more collapsed and completely out of its element was ainformation and details.very eerie sight. Also having known some of the crew members, one of them being my next-door neighbor, added even more terrible dread to the feeling.Still, it was a big job that had to be done, so he and the diving team completed it with the help of the Barnegat Coast Guard Station at the close of twelve very difficult days. Interestingly, Admiral Rosendahl, another oneof Caldwells neighbors, wrote an article for LIFE magazine shortly after this wreck took place. He critiqued the building of the ZPG airships for lacking a rigid structure and compartmentalization, which he thought was crucial for crew safety.At that point in time, it was thought that rigid structures were not efficient enough to build and utilize any longer. This thinking and the increased use of fixed-wing aircraft signaled another step in the dissembling of the Navy LTA program.In researching and shooting James Jim Caldwell Courtesy Photo: Jim Caldwell in diving gear Srs film, titled Jim Caldwell in Depth, we werefortunate enough to hear so many incredible stories about WWII UDTs, and Jims dive shop, which was the first of its kind in Ocean County. He also spoke in depth about his inventions- one being the Cable Plow, which he and his company utilized in laying the fiber optic cabling from the US to Europe, and in removing and refitting the cabling from NJ to the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island. He did many fascinating rescue and recovery jobs over time, including diving the Stolt Dagali and the Andrea Doria wrecks.Most interesting, perhaps, are his recollections from JBMDL Lakehurst (NAS) and the LTA and Diving Thank You For Your Service Military Appreciation Resource Magazine 35'