A minute of silence in memory of the missing in the tragedy of the Argentine submarine San Juan, opened the works of the 14th NATO "Submarine Escape and Rescue Working Group" (SMERWG 2018), the most important international working group on the safety of submarines, held in Amsterdam, and hosted by the Dutch Navy, since 14 to May 18th.
Italy again this year, together with 130 delegates from other 20 nations, participated with a delegation of the Navy in the annual plenary session of the working group, which had as its main reason the analysis of the lessons learned deriving from the deployment of men and means that the international community fielded in the event of San Juan.
In fact, the SMERWG mainly deals with promoting the development and implementation of military standards in submarine rescue, through the sharing and optimization of the related doctrine, technologies used, intervention techniques and training methods, in search of a continuous improvement in the integration of nations equipped with an underwater component, in support of the eventuality of a damaged submarine.
In fact, submarines, modern and highly complex means, operate every day in the depths of the abyss, and it is for this reason that every submariner of the Navy, well aware of his specificity, is trained and continuously trained, since his entry into the Component, through the participation in specialized courses on safety and the use of tools, such as diving simulators, which make the Taranto Submarine School a prestigious internationally recognized excellence.
In this sense, participation in SMERWG also represents a moment of improvement in the culture of submarine safety, in a context of confrontation, mutual knowledge and sharing of issues in the subject, with a very high international value.
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