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Day 10 of the 2012 Advanced Science Course 'Around the World and Around the Clock: The Science and Technology of the CTBT'. Participants engaged in an On-site inspection table-top-exercise.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko visit the exercise and meet with participants
International military members participate in the Opening Ceremony of United States of America’s Southern Command’s multinational Caribbean regional security capability Exercise TRADEWINDS at Camp Ayanganna in Georgetown, Guyana on 15 July 2023.
Please credit: MCpl Genevieve Lapointe, Canadian Forces Combat Camera, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
Des militaires internationaux participent à la cérémonie d’ouverture de l’exercice multinational TRADEWINDS dirigé par le United States Southern Command, visant à renforcer les capacités en matière de sécurité régionale dans les Caraïbes, au Camp Ayanganna, à Georgetown, au Guyana, le 15 juillet 2023.
Photo : Cplc Genevieve Lapointe, Caméra de combat des Forces canadiennes, Forces armées canadiennes
International military members participate in the Opening Ceremony of United States of America’s Southern Command’s multinational Caribbean regional security capability Exercise TRADEWINDS at Camp Ayanganna in Georgetown, Guyana on 15 July 2023.
Please credit: MCpl Genevieve Lapointe, Canadian Forces Combat Camera, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
Des militaires internationaux participent à la cérémonie d’ouverture de l’exercice multinational TRADEWINDS dirigé par le United States Southern Command, visant à renforcer les capacités en matière de sécurité régionale dans les Caraïbes, au Camp Ayanganna, à Georgetown, au Guyana, le 15 juillet 2023.
Photo : Cplc Genevieve Lapointe, Caméra de combat des Forces canadiennes, Forces armées canadiennes
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service's first training exercise on board a ship has been hailed a success.
Crews from around the county were called to Wisbech Port on Wednesday evening (Oct 19) for a simulated fire in the engine room of a 3,000 tonne Russian ship, with casualties and persons overboard.
The Incident Command Unit from Huntingdon attended along with crews from Wisbech and Huntingdon. Crews from Dogsthorpe with specialist in-water training also attended, together with two crews from Outwell and West Walton in Norfolk.
Twenty-five firefighters had to locate and gain access to the ship’s engine room where the fire was located and carry out a search and rescue of all on-board casualties and extinguish all fires.
Dogsthorpe firefighters wearing drysuits used an inflatable boat to locate and rescue three casualties in the water, working alongside two crews from Fenland District Council’s Harbour Authority, who also had three members of staff shoreside, including Harbour Master Jamie Hemming and a representative from Fenland District Council’s Health and Safety Department.
Exercise Poseidon, as it was referred to throughout the exercise, saw dummies thrown into the water some distance from the ship, which was moored at the harbour in Nene Parade, close to the town centre.
Hazards faced by the crews included narrow passageways, trip hazards with ropes and a potential to fall in the water.
On-board operations took place in dark, narrow passageways with one room filled with smoke. Firefighters searching for bodies in the River Nene worked in night-time conditions.
Although Wisbech firefighters have attended a fire on board a ship before, it was over the border in Norfolk.
Wednesday night’s Exercise Poseidon, however, was Cambridgeshire’s first in-county training exercise on board a ship.
Watch Commander Phil Pilbeam, from Wisbech Station, spent eight weeks planning the event with Crew Commander Tim Carr.
“I’m really pleased with how things went. It all went really smoothly.”
He said the exercise provided a unique opportunity for firefighters to train on board a ship.
"Firefighters in Cambridgeshire are well trained and knowledgeable in house fires, factory fires and Road Traffic Collisions etc. However, a ship fire is unique. It's in a confined space, it's made of metal and it's a lot hotter because it's a metal container.
"Ships have an unfamiliar layout to crews. They can be very complex in their layout and this was a unique opportunity for all the crews to attend and to put these different skills into practice."
WC Pilbeam said the exercise had raised some good learning points.
“The inflatable boat from Dogsthorpe was not powerful enough for a tidal area. It was fine going with the tide but not against it. It had to be towed by the two boats from the Harbour Authority.
“Also, the crew set up lots of hose reels to help us out but we couldn’t use them because the couplings didn’t fit ours so we will be talking to the Harbour Master and our Operational Support Group to bring in some specialist hose reels for the harbour.”
He said communication with the nine-strong Russian crew on board the ship, had proved challenging.
“There were definitely language barriers that were an issue. We would ask what we wanted to get across and they would try and put across what they wanted. There were lots of hand signals and lots of pointing and gesturing.”
Despite some of the difficulties faced, he said the whole exercise, from time of call-out to when the crews returned to their stations, took three hours, which was what he had expected.
Harbour Master Jamie Hemming, of Fenland District Council, said with about forty cargo ships arriving at Wisbech Port each year there was a ‘real chance’ of a fire on board a ship so training exercises like this were really helpful.
“There’s a real chance of fire on board a ship. We are the only Port in Cambridgeshire so for Wisbech it is a serious scenario so from that point of view it was good to see the guys working on something a little bit out of their comfort zone.
“The joint exercise went extremely well and it was reassuring for us as a Harbour Authority to see the whole thing co-ordinated in such a professional and timely manner. It will stand us all in good stead should a similar real incident occur.”
Jamie said the Harbour Authority was keen to see more training exercises on board ships in the future.
“I would like to see another training exercise on board a ship at least once or twice a year as it’s a very proactive approach.”
The majority of boats coming into Wisbech arrive from the Baltics carrying timber and leave with scrap metal for Spain.
Lithuanian troops receive orders on Steadfats Cobalt (SFCT) 2015 in Walcz, Poland
NATO troops from over 20 countries including Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Belgium, the UK and France have taken part in Exercise Steadfast Cobalt 2015 (SFCT 2015) from the 4th May to 5th June in Walcz, Poland. SFCT 2015 is an Allied Commnd Operation, NATO Response Force (NRF) exercise, designed to serve as a key element in the training and evaluation of NRF 2016 within its certification process by the Commander of Joint Force Command (JFC) Brunssum. There are almost twice the number of participating units as for the same excercise last year.
An exercise was recently conducted at Liverpool Marina on Merseyside to test the Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service response to a simulated blaze on board a vessel at the lock gate end of Brunswick Dock.
Pumps and crews from Kirkdale, Toxteth and City Centre stations were involved in the drill which took place over a two hour period.
MFRS New Generation Scania P280 DK22DBU, Fleet Number 1409, is seen outside the marina main building while the Crew Managers were being briefed. This pump is based at Toxteth.
(With thanks to Thomas Riley for additional information.)
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Exercise Diamond Storm 2019 will take place from Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base Darwin and RAAF Base Tindal, near Katherine in the Northern Territory on Monday 29 April through to Wednesday 29 May 2019
NSRI Bakoven's Rotarian Schipper, Table Bay's Spirit of Vodacon and the Air Sea Rescue unit participated in an exercise with the SA Navy submarine SAS Queen Modjadji II and a SAAF Lynx helicopter off Sea Point. Picture Sea Rescue
Estonian Defence League personnel reporting for duty at one of Tallinn's reception centres as part of Exercise Siil (Hedgehog), 04 May 2018. NATO photo by SSgt Dan Bardsley GBRA OR7
A sailor aboard a Norwegian corvette provides force protection for the United States Navy ampibious ship USS Iwo Jima in a Norwegian fjord October 31, 2018 during NATO exercise Trident Juncture. Photo: Bendik Skogli / Forsvaret
Menig artillerist på en Skjold klasse korvette under force protection av Iwo Jima (US).
Greater Manchester's emergency services and Highways England traffic officers joined forces last weekend for one of the biggest ever motorway emergency exercises.
Exercise Dark Knight saw over 100 people respond to a simulated major incident on a closed section of the M62 motorway.
Over 50 volunteers played the part of drivers and passengers involved in a major collision. Their role was to simulate a range of injuries, from cuts and bruises to fatalities.
The exercise was designed to improve responses to major road incidents and ensure coordination between the various emergency services.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit www.gmp.police.uk
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
International military members participate in the Opening Ceremony of United States of America’s Southern Command’s multinational Caribbean regional security capability Exercise TRADEWINDS at Camp Ayanganna in Georgetown, Guyana on 15 July 2023.
Please credit: MCpl Genevieve Lapointe, Canadian Forces Combat Camera, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
Des militaires internationaux participent à la cérémonie d’ouverture de l’exercice multinational TRADEWINDS dirigé par le United States Southern Command, visant à renforcer les capacités en matière de sécurité régionale dans les Caraïbes, au Camp Ayanganna, à Georgetown, au Guyana, le 15 juillet 2023.
Photo : Cplc Genevieve Lapointe, Caméra de combat des Forces canadiennes, Forces armées canadiennes
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko visit the exercise and meet with participants
whoohoo! i ran 20 miles for my long run this weekend in preparation for the chicago marathon which is, unbelievably, only 4 weeks away! i was "only" going to run 18 miles for my LSD ( long slow distance ) run this week, but things were going so well i decided i had enough gas in the tank for 2 more miles. i think i'll probably run another 20 next week, maybe a bit more if i'm feeling good and then it's time to taper down for the marathon.
since it's getting close to race time, people are asking more often what time i think i'll finish the marathon in. the answer to that is pretty straight forward and gives a good opportunity to give a refresher in sports nutrition and glucose metabolism.
despite running for a year and losing what i hope will be around 70 pounds on race day, thanks to my 6'4" frame and the genetics card i was played, i will still be, er, solidly in what is known in the running world as the clydesdale class which is an endearing term for runners who weigh over 200 pounds.
as a card carrying clydesdale, i burn a lot of calories when i'm running. how many? if i run 10 minute miles ( 6 miles per hour ), i burn around 1100 calories per hour. the problem is that even if i carbo load before a long run, i'm only going to have about 2,000 calories in stored glycogen in the "gas tank". once that gas in the tank is used up, you hit the dreaded "wall". you're done. kaput. obviously, if that was all i had, then i could only run for 2 hours or about 12 miles. i can and will take in as many calories as i can while running, but an endurance runner can only take in and absorb about 275 calories per hour. try to take in any more than that and you're going to run into, uh, gastrointestinal problems and bring on a case of the runner's trots ( or worse ).
so, i'm burning 1,100 calories an hour at 6 miles per hour, which is a 4:20 marathon race time, and i can take in about 275 calories an hour which nets about an 825 calorie burn rate. good deal! i can burn some fat! surely i have enough fat to burn! ah, but at moderate levels of physical activity you can only get about 50% of your calories from fat ( and you still need glucose around to burn that fat, once the glucose is gone you lose the ability to efficiently utilize either source of fuel ). so, i need about 800 calories per hour and i can get 400 of those from fat which means i'm going to drain the glycogen tank at the rate of 400 calories per hour.
if i have 2,000 calories in the glycogen tank that means i can run for 5 hours. awesome! if run at 6 miles per hour or a 4:20 marathon race time, all the math works out in my favor!
but what if i want to push it and run an unadjusted paul ryan race time of 4 hours? well, then i burn a little more calories, or about 1,200 per hour. after i take in 275 an hour in "goo" and sports drinks and whatnot i'm netting 925 calories per hour. here's the kicker, the additional exertion decreases the efficiency of fat burning and i can then only get about 40% of my calories from fat which means i'm burning 555 calories an hour from the 2,000 calorie glycogen tank which means i run out of gas in about 3.6 hours. or about 30 minutes before i theoretically finish in 4 hours.
which is a long way of saying, if everything goes well, i can probably run a 4:15-4:30 marathon without risking running out of gas and hobbling towards the finish line.
by my calculations, i could theoretically run a sub 4 hour marathon if i weighed about what i weighted as a sophomore in high school. that might happen someday, but not this time around :-)
Dutch divers from the Very Shallow Water Dive Team return to their ship after ensuring the path to the beach is clear on November 1, 2018 as part of the preparations at a beach before an amphibious landing takes place as part of NATO exercise Trident Juncture. Photo: Hedvig Antoinette Halgunset / Forsvaret
Nederlandske dykkere er en del av Very Shallow Waterteam under Trident Juncture 2018.
Greater Manchester's emergency services and Highways England traffic officers joined forces last weekend for one of the biggest ever motorway emergency exercises.
Exercise Dark Knight saw over 100 people respond to a simulated major incident on a closed section of the M62 motorway.
Over 50 volunteers played the part of drivers and passengers involved in a major collision. Their role was to simulate a range of injuries, from cuts and bruises to fatalities.
The exercise was designed to improve responses to major road incidents and ensure coordination between the various emergency services.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit www.gmp.police.uk
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
A bridge team member aboard Norwegian frigate HNoMS Thor Heyerdahl coordinates activities below decks during a general quarters drill November 3, 2018 during NATO exercise Trident Juncture. Photo: Oda Linnea Brekke Iden / Forsvaret
Klart skip- øvelse under Trident juncture 2018
Canadian frigate HMCS VILLE DE QUÉBEC Executive Officer Lieutenant Commander Annick Fortin watches other NATO warships while sailing in formation inside The Trondheim Fjord during Exercise TRIDENT JUNCTURE on October 30, 2018.
Photo: MCpl Andre Maillet, MARPAC Imaging Services
Army exercise on Salisbury Plain, 1989. It was so cold that when I rewound the film into the camera the leader snapped off when I folded it!
This picture was selected for the Royal Photographic Society's International Print Exhibition in 1989.
Farah Eslaquit Miss Nicaragua 2012. Sesión para revista Fitness & Nutrition. Gimnasio Bally. Marzo 2012
Greater Manchester's emergency services and Highways England traffic officers joined forces last weekend for one of the biggest ever motorway emergency exercises.
Exercise Dark Knight saw over 100 people respond to a simulated major incident on a closed section of the M62 motorway.
Over 50 volunteers played the part of drivers and passengers involved in a major collision. Their role was to simulate a range of injuries, from cuts and bruises to fatalities.
The exercise was designed to improve responses to major road incidents and ensure coordination between the various emergency services.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit www.gmp.police.uk
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.