Divers Academy International

About Divers Academy International

According to Wikipedia, Divers Academy International is a private, for-profit technical educational institution in New Jersey that offers training in commercial diving and underwater welding. History Divers Academy was founded in 1977 by Captain William M. Brown, a Korean War veteran, to meet the high demand for commercial divers in the offshore oil industry, inland harbors, and rivers. In 2006, the school was purchased by William Brown's daughter, Tamara Brown, who took over as president and CEO. In early 2022, she pled guilty to a charge of wire fraud after the U.S. Department of Justice accused her of "fraudulently obtaining funding from the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for the school and its students." The prosecutors also alleged that she falsified materials submitted to the school's accreditor in 2012.