Dynamic Monarch is a series of live submarine search, escape and rescue (SMER) exercises that provide the opportunity to share related knowledge among NATO Allies and other nations worldwide.
The sea is a difficult environment to deal with in an emergency situation. The aim of this exercise is to train mariners in cooperating when saving crew members from a distressed submarine and to help develop tactics and test equipment in order to provide options if an emergency does strike.
Dynamic Monarch 2017 kicked off on 8 September and is due to run until 22 September in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Aksaz, Turkey. The NATO nations participating in this year’s drills are Canada, France, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. Representatives from Bangladesh, Chile, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea and Sweden have also been invited to the exercise as observers.
Footage includes underwater shots of Turkish surface-supplied divers working between 30 and 40 metres deep as well as various shots of Canadian, Polish and Turkish divers during the exercise.
Teaser: The sea is a difficult environment to deal with in an emergency situation. NATO Allies are training alongside other nations to prove their interoperability and cooperation in a submarine search-and-rescue scenario during exercise Dynamic Monarch.
1. Soundbite in English: Selim Gökdeniz, Commanding Officer of submarine rescue ship TCG Alemdar, Turkish Navy. –“Dynamic Monarch 17 is a NATO submarine rescue exercise which has been executed every three years. This year the Turkish Navy is hosting the exercise in Marmaris, Aksaz. The exercise aim is to demonstrate multinational submarine rescue cooperation and national submarine rescue cooperation. Turkish, American, Spanish, Italian, Canadian and Polish navies are participating in the exercise.”
2. Soundbite in English: First Class Petty Officer Robert Dwyer, US Navy. -“There are three separate areas in the SRC [submarine rescue chamber]. There’s the upper compartment, the lower compartment and the ballast tank. The upper compartment is where the operators are and then the ballast tank is connected to the lower compartment. So once we make a seal on a disabled submarine and we get it nice and tight with our cable and our technology in there - it’s old but it works - take a nice tight strain on the wire rope, then we open up the ballast tank to the lower compartment, which creates a lower pressure, which creates a suction. And then the actual pressure of the ocean around us is what creates the seal.”
3. Soundbite in English: Commander Gennaro Vitagliano, Italian Navy. International Submarine Escape and Rescue Liaison Office (ISMERLO). “This is not about a war exercise. We are talking about saving lives at sea. We don’t make any distinction between saving a life or another life. For us it’s important brotherhood, for us it’s important to be here and be ready to save a life, whatever country this life belongs to.”
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