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: Captain Andrew MacBeath, Commander of multi-purpose ship SD Northern River – “In Rescue system Through dynamic positioning we use satellites or GPS to maintain position. We control position and also heading, so when they are launching the submarine, we can proceed an exact speed, an exact course, and we can also maintain position within one metre of desired position. There is a mathematical model of the ship, in this order produced, and we can tell how different factors like the wind and the current will act upon the ship. All the forces are calculated and the ship maintains its position controlling the surge, which is the forward and back motion, the sway which is side to side and the yaw which is the changing of the heading. We have thrusters [in-line main propellers] on board, stern thrusters and port thrusters, and also we have a twin propeller and twin radars and all the thrusters are fed into a computer, a controller, which applies relevant forces to each thruster to maintain position as determined by the operator.
2. Soundbite in English: Commander Ian Duncan, NATO Submarine Rescue System (NSRS) Programme Manager. “The NATO Submarine Rescue System is unique. It’s the world’s largest fly-away transfer under pressure system at the moment. It’s designed to rescue 150 people, from down to 600 metres at 6 Bar atmospheric pressure. It’s air-portable so we can fly it anywhere in the world and we can move it by land, sea and air to go and rescue a submarine. Our current area of operations, we exercise NSRS around the NATO area, so we’ve operated from the north of Norway in winter down to the eastern Mediterranean in the middle of the summer.”
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