Honor Mission PHC (retired) Steven Waterman, USN - Vietnam, Saturday, Sept 19, 10AM, Rockland ME.

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The family of PHC (Retired, USN- Vietnam), Steven L. Waterman, 74, has requested the PGR provide escort, and Stand in Honor of their Hero. Steve passed away September 3, 2020 peacefully after an accelerated bout with military service-connected brain damage

Steve was a 1964 graduate of Rockland High School, where he spent most of his days behind a camera or in the photo lab. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a photographer's mate, went to dive school, became a First-Class diver, and continued on to be one of an elite group of servicemen as an underwater combat photographer. He was attached to UDT-13 during the Vietnam War, and served a nine-month tour with them in 1969.

After completing 13 years of active duty, he served in the Navy and Army reserves, completing 20 years’ service. Steve retired as a U.S. Navy Chief.

He was owner and operator of Waterman Oceanics dive shop, a member of MENSA, taught SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) school, published in the Courier, the Weekly Waterfront, Yankee Magazine, National Fisherman, Soldier of Fortune, and in 2000 published his autobiographical account of his time in the Navy, Just a Sailor with Random House Publishing. He also wrote several other books centered around his love of and experiences in and on the ocean.

Always involved in his community, he served on the South Thomaston Ambulance Service.

A graveside service with Military Honors will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, September 19, 2020, at Ocean View Cemetery, Spruce Head Road, South Thomaston.

PGR Staging will be Saturday, September 19, at 10AM, Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home, 110 Limerock Street, Rockland.          https://goo.gl/maps/shh7p6PBEpzTvcLP8