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![Commander Dan Simon just after a dive in the Pacific.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170119033449im_/http://www.omao.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/320_wide/public/media/IMG_9587.jpg?itok=uX7s-HUb)
Learn more about the life of a NOAA Corps officer and NOAA diver.
![NOAA Commissioned Corps Flag](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170119033449im_/http://www.omao.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/320_wide/public/media/NOAA%20Commissioned%20Corps%20Flag_High%20Res.jpg?itok=TlZ_tkAM)
![BOTC 128](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170119033449im_/http://www.omao.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/320_wide/public/media/BOTC%20128%20copy.jpg?itok=5ZlhlACV)
Members of NOAA Corps Basic Officer Training Class 128 at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, including ENS Ololade N. Ajilore, ENS Hunter L. Brendel, ENS Sydney M. Catoire, ENS Sean E. Digre, ENS Christopher K. Dunn, ENS Garrison L. Grant, ENS Timothy J. Holland, ENS Patrick T. Lawler, ENS Vanessa C. Oquendo, ENS Brianna D. Pacheco, ENS Chelsea L. Parrish, ENS Lee T. Shoemaker, ENS Peter R. Siegenthaler, ENS Brandon W.H. Tao, ENS Collin H. Walker.
![Basic Officer Training Class 84](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170119033449im_/http://www.omao.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/320_wide/public/media/84th%20BOTC.jpg?itok=eqzfJzqp)
Basic Officer Training Class 84.
![BOTC 128](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170119033449im_/http://www.omao.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/320_wide/public/media/OCS1-17%20BOTC%20128%20Group.jpg?itok=RciXbxyO)
Members of NOAA Corps Basic Officer Training Class 128 at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, including ENS Ololade N. Ajilore, ENS Hunter L. Brendel, ENS Sydney M. Catoire, ENS Sean E. Digre, ENS Christopher K. Dunn, ENS Garrison L. Grant, ENS Timothy J. Holland, ENS Patrick T. Lawler, ENS Vanessa C. Oquendo, ENS Brianna D. Pacheco, ENS Chelsea L. Parrish, ENS Lee T. Shoemaker, ENS Peter R. Siegenthaler, ENS Brandon W.H. Tao, ENS Collin H. Walker.
![NOAA Pilot Lt. j.g. Doremus stand next to the agency's Turbo Commander aircraft](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170119033449im_/http://www.omao.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/320_wide/public/media/Lt.%20j.g.%20Kevin%20Doremus%20with%20NOAA%27s%20Gulfstream%20%27Jet%20Prop%27%20Tubo%20Commander%20%28N45RF%29_NOAA%20Photo%20by%20David%20Hall.jpg?itok=p_XQPXrp)
Get a NOAA pilot's perspective on flying the agency's specialized environmental data-gathering aircraft.
![Two divers inside a large aquarium exhibit](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170119033449im_/http://www.omao.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/320_wide/public/media/ENS%20NIkita%20Norton%20and%20Dave%20Cutter%20with%20shark%20pole_Credit%20ENS%20Phil%20Manougian.jpg?itok=X9bhfnYS)
What do NOAA Divers do during their off time? NOAA Corps ENS Niki Norton and Phil Manougian, LCDR Sarah Duncan, and LT Zach Cress use their NOAA diving skills to volunteer!
![Two sharks seen from below inside an aquarium exhibit](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170119033449im_/http://www.omao.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/320_wide/public/media/Sharks%20in%20Oregon%20Coast%20Aquarium%20Tank_Credit%20ENS%20Phil%20Manougian%2C%20NOAA.jpg?itok=if4ajP6h)
Sharks in the Oregon Coast Aquarium Open Sea exhibit, where NOAA Corps Officers who have trained as NOAA Divers volunteer.
![A diver points a striped pole toward a shark inside a large aquarium exhibit](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170119033449im_/http://www.omao.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/320_wide/public/media/Oregon%20Coast%20Aquarium%20volunteer%20Dave%20Cutter%20with%20pole%20_credit%20ENS%20Phil%20Manougian.jpg?itok=JjTG7jRQ)
Oregon Coast Aquarium (OCAq) volunteer Dave Cutter (using a striped PVC stick) keeps the sharks away from volunteer NOAA Divers working in the background.