Historic Logos, Decals, and Patches

[JMBL]

Here are some French Navy divers insignia.


First one with the dolphins : Plongeur de bord, entry level to any other kind of diving (OC). Once you're certified, you're responsible for hull inspection, light under water work etc...


That one is EOD removal diver (rebreather).

Combat diver

 

[David Wilson]

Thank you for the advice, colleague May I ask what you're teaching and what level ?

Now retired, but taught French, German, Computer Studies and students with special educational needs in a secondary school when I was a full-time classroom practitioner.

 

[JMBL]

Now retired, but taught French, German, Computer Studies and students with special educational needs in a secondary school when I was a full-time classroom practitioner.

Been teaching myself for 25 years. Lycée professionnel : basically high school + vocational training. I'm training waiters, wine butlers, receptionists. Involved in English training and special educational needs as well.

 

[David Wilson]

Been teaching myself for 25 years. Lycée professionnel : basically high school + vocational training. I'm training waiters, wine butlers, receptionists. Involved in English training and special educational needs as well.

I chalked up 36 years of full-time teaching before I retired, then went back to the same secondary school for another ten years doing unpaid voluntary work one day a week, creating teaching materials and managing student records for the special educational needs department.

So you are working in a lycée professionnel, training people in hospitality occupations. Some of the students at my old school attended Food Studies classes, followed by a catering course at the local further education college. When I was a modern languages student in the late 1960s, I spent a year abroad in France as an English Language Assistant in a lycée with a traditional academic curriculum. Happy times, I took the opportunity to explore the country and I appreciated the classroom management experience when I came to teach French and German to 11-to-18-year-olds back in England.

 

[JMBL]

Infirmier Hyperbariste (nurse specialised in the treatment of diving accidents) badge from the French Navy
The same as a patch

And now...
The US Navy Diving Medical Tech ! There's some family resemblance, isn't there ? Only difference is the caduceus.

 

[Akimbo]

View attachment 582480 Infirmier Hyperbariste (nurse specialised in the treatment of diving accidents) badge from the French Navy
The same as a patch View attachment 582482

And now... View attachment 582485
The US Navy Diving Medical Tech ! There's some family resemblance, isn't there ? Only difference is the caduceus.

It is surprising that the helmet chosen for the logo is the US Navy's Mark V instead of a french Rouquayrol Denayrouze mask or hat.

 

[JMBL]

It is surprising that the helmet chosen for the logo is the US Navy's Mark V instead of a french Rouquayrol Denayrouze mask or hat.

I agree, but I fear it was both easier and quicker to make a copy/paste (with a small alteration though) of a pre existing badge than to design a new one from scratch.

 

[Akimbo]

Understandable but adding a medical symbol to the French Navy Diver's pin wouldn't be any harder.

 

[JMBL]

Sure, but I guess they needed something different. I've looked around, but couldn't trace any history of the how and why of the design. All I know is that it's the latest badge referring to diving designed by the French Navy.

 

[JMBL]

Here's the combat diver badge of the French Foreign Legion (colour : Bronze, Silver, Gold, according to rank and responsabilities). The 'sapeur-plongeurs' are part of the FFL Engineers (1° and 2° Régiment Etranger du Génie (REG), and formerly 6°REG, now defunct). Part of these divers are responsible for clearing obstructions in rivers to allow vehicles to cross, the others are in charge of offensive operations.


This is the badge of the DINOPS (Détachement d'Intervention Nautique Opérationnel Subaquatique) from the 6°REG. DINOPS could be (roughly) translated as Group of Underwater Operations.