Christmas Daddies Navy Divers’ Run

50Km NAVY DIVERS RUN on Saturday, Dec 5, 2020
in support of Christmas Daddies

 -      Members of the Fleet Diving Unit (Atlantic) will be running the roads of Shearwater, Dartmouth, Bedford and Halifax in support of children in need this holiday season.
-      Support from the Navy Divers has raised more the one million dollars in 37 years for the Maritime tradition known as Christmas Daddies.

On Saturday, December 5, 2020  Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic will once again participate in their 38th Annual Christmas Daddies Run. Members of Fleet Diving Unit (Atlantic) and their families begin their 50 km trek at CFB Shearwater - running through Dartmouth, Sackville and Halifax. The Navy Divers will arrive at the CTV studios located at 2885 Robie Street in Halifax and appear on the 57th Annual Christmas Daddies Telethon to present funds raised from pledges and donations collected along their route.

Since their first year of involvement in 1983, nearly $313,500 in donations have been collected by the men, women and family members of the FDU(A). As well, the Fleet Diving Unit (Atlantic) donated the MK5 Navy Divers helmet to the auction portion of the Christmas Daddies program in 1985. This auction item has been coveted by Big Leagues Beverage Room in Cole Harbour, NS on more than 30 occasions. The additional funds raised from the highest bidder of the MK5 Helmet when added to the amounts collected on the annual run, have reached an impressive amount – more than one million dollars since 1983.

Past fund raisers by the Navy Divers have included a route from Truro to Halifax and a swim across the Halifax Harbour.

If you see a bunch of people running down the streets and roads of the Halifax Metro region, please give to this very worthy cause. GO NAVY!

The funds raised through the Christmas Daddies Telethon provide toys, gifts and food for less fortunate children and are distributed by The Salvation Army.

More than 18,000 Maritime children and parents are helped each year at Christmas time.

The 57th Annual Christmas Daddies Telethon will be broadcast on Saturday, December 5, 2020 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on CTV with a livestream on the web at CTV Atlantic https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/