Diving Teams Participate in Eurasian Partnership Dive 2011
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CONSTANTA, Romania - Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Georgian, Romanian, Ukrainian and U.S. diving teams met last week in Constanta, Romania, for the engagement event Eurasian Partnership (EP) Dive 2011, co-hosted by the Romanian and U.S. navies.
The exercise was able to determine the progress made by NATO allies and partners towards diving interoperability and training, manning and equipment capabilities.
Master Chief Navy Diver Kelly Polk was convinced that the international meet with four Black Sea and one Caspian Sea country was an excellent opportunity to extend the international relations and goodwill of the U.S. Navy.
“To see how each country conducts their dives, to see not just their capabilities, but also to observe our differences in each country’s style of diving was very educational for us,” said Polk.
EP Dive's full-bodied training agenda included surface supplied diving in the open sea and in a compression chamber simulator; review of recompression chamber treatment tables and of saturation diving capabilities; scuba diving; hull searching and mine explosive ordnance disposal response. Additionally, the six diving teams conducted dive safety and medicine discussions, and maximum and minimum capability discussions for each country’s dive unit.
The participants left EP Dive 2011 aligned in its vision and approach to collective security. Engagements like this better equip the participating nations to address the full range of security challenges of the Black Sea Region.
“Engagements like EP Dive 2011 are very helpful, because they provide a clear picture for the level and the capabilities of the Black Sea countries’ diving teams,” said Ukrainian Cmdr. Olekdandr Korotun, officer in charge of the Ukrainian Diving Team. “Our togetherness gives us an additional stimulus for development.”
The engagement activity aimed to build the capacity of each nations diving team and foster professional relationships among all participating nations. The participants were confident that they departed Constanta as better divers, better service members of their own militaries, equipped with better knowledge of the capabilities of their Black Sea partners and with many new friends.
This was the second international event for Company 26 this month, after the exercise Sea Breeze 2011 in Sevastopol, Ukraine.
Company 26 of Mobile Diving Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2, is homeported in Little Creek, Va., and is currently embarked aboard USNS Grasp (T-ARS 51).
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