Twenty submariners of the Navy, after completing the basic training and acquiring the main techniques and procedures of "dry" release at the Submarine School of the Taranto Navy, went to Holland to complete the training and learn the training techniques "in pressure".
The recently completed course is the second of the same type conducted at the Dutch Navy and the first offered to a foreign navy.
Objective successfully achieved for all participants who were followed and coordinated, for the entire period, by a team of officers from the Navy Staff and the Submarine Flotilla of Taranto.
A cooperation agreement with the Dutch Navy allows Italian submariners to train in a state-of-the-art facility recently built at Den Helder's 'Aquacentrum', the 'Triton 12' spill tower.
The safety of the crew of a submarine is an absolute priority, whatever the operational scenario in which it operates, which is why a submarine driver dedicates a large part of his training to the conduct of the craft in the maximum safety conditions.
One of the hypothetical scenarios for the crew of a submarine is precisely that of having to abandon the vehicle due to technical causes or, in the worst case scenario, when hit the boat is in the condition of being unable to navigate and ending up resting on the seabed.
It is in these cases that the inevitable abandonment of the boat occurs through the exit from the turret, after wearing a special containment suit, type SEIE MK-11, whose characteristic is to be in effect a fully integrated life raft and single-seater.
