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Donna M. Tobias

New London, CT, Connecticut

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Waterford - Donna M. Tobias, 58, took her own life after a long and brave struggle with depression on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010.Born in Los Angeles, Calif., May 22, 1952, Donna joined the U.S. Navy because of her love of the water. She holds the distinction of being the Navy's first female deep sea...

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Still missing my friend and dive partner

Think of you often and miss you my friend RIP Ms T.

Donna is now featured in an exhibit at the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport Washington. The exhibit is called Behind the Faceplate and featured key people in history who dove and trained on the old Mark V hard hat system. Donna is featured for the 1970s. Additionally, this year the Association of Women Navy Divers is celebrating 50 years of women in navy diving which started with Donna in 1975. Thank you Donna!

Donna Tobias it´s now 5,479 days of Koyaanisqatsi without you here. I always will be grateful for the energy you spent on a troubled kid like me, I only wish we had more time together before you transferred out of EH & I hope that you knew it made all the difference in my life and it continues to this day. I hadn´t known about your diving legacy being you were a first year teacher finding her way, just that we both had a deep love of the ocean,music & the arts. Meg Fisher and everyone in this...

Donna, I wish more than anything we got to meet in life, but your fight means something to a lot of people.