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Dirk Pitt (Reimagined)

Dirk Eric Pitt is an American ocean engineer and NUMA aquanauts.

He was born and raised in Longview, Texas. His father, Georgia Pitt, was a Texas State Senator and former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot turned commercial airline pilot. His mother, Barbara Pitt, was a kindergarten teacher. After Pitt graduated from Longview High School, he went on to the United States Naval Academy. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Ocean Engineering and a commission as an Ensign in the United States Navy. While at the U.S. Naval Academy, Pitt decided to become a Navy SEAL officer. After completing Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training, he attended parachute training and then went on to SEAL Qualification Training.

Following his completion of SEAL Qualification Training, Pitt attended SEAL Delivery Vehicle School. Afterwards, he was assigned to SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 1 as an assistant platoon commander. Pitt was later elevated to the position of a SEAL Delivery Vehicle platoon commander. After serving a a tour as a BUD/S training instructor, he was reassigned to SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 1 as the operations officer. Pitt left the U.S. Navy after eight years of service and then enrolled in the graduate ocean engineering program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A year later, he received his Master of Science in Ocean Engineering.

Soon after, Pitt found employment as a field engineer for the Cussler Corporation, an oceanic hydrocarbon exploration company. Two years later, he left the Cussler Corporation and obtained a position as a field supervisor for the Clive E. Group, a marine environmental consulting firm. Soon after, Pitt applied to join the National Underwater and Marine Administration, a newly-established independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for oceanographic research such deep-sea geological surveying and marine archaeology, as well as marine biology studies and oceanic climate research. NUMA is also responsible for U.S. government deep-sea mining.

After Pitt completed the application process, he was selected by NUMA as an aquanaut candidate. He then left the Clive E. Group and went on to Aquanaut Candidate Training at the NUMA Headquarters Facility in Honolulu, Hawaii. Upon completing the one-year training course, Pitt was officially joined the NUMA Aquanaut Corps and was assigned technical duties in the Aquanaut Office. He later served as a mission specialist on two three-month deep-sea exploration missions, the deep-submergence vehicle pilot on one mission, and finally as the mission commander on two missions. Pitt also served as the mission control communications officer for three deep-sea exploration missions.

Eight years into his career with the NUMA Aquanaut Corps, he was selected by the Administrator of the National Underwater and Marine Administration for the position of Chief of the Aquanaut Office, which is the most senior leadership position for active aquanauts at the National Underwater and Marine Administration. In that capacity, Pitt serves as head of the NUMA Aquanaut Corps and is the principal advisor to the NUMA Administrator on aquanaut training and operations. He is also responsible for managing Aquanaut Office resources and logistics, and helps develop aquanaut mission crew operation concepts and crew assignments for future deep-sea exploration missions.