Carl Brashear died. Captain's Quarters takes note. Like most who know of his story, I first learned of it watching Men of Honor with Cuba Gooding, Jr. Brashear was a pioneer along the lines of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier against insults and threats (except there were a million ways to die in underwater training, while baseball seems comparatively sedate).
Oddly, I am currently reading Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson. Wow. Chapter 2 is a basic description of the hazards of deep (>180 feet) diving and it is truly frightening. Its description of the type of death (drowning in close quaters in zero visibility) that takes these men is very powerful.
Brashear had the right stuff.
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