The Maritime Safety Enhancement Coaching (MSET) was the most recent iteration of Mixed Activity Drive (CTF) 154’s worldwide coaching workouts and included contributors from eleven nations from the Mixed Maritime Forces, in addition to EUNAVFOR and the United Nations Institute for Coaching and Analysis (UNITAR).
The operation was the biggest scale occasion in CTF 154 historical past, with roughly 150 contributors, facilitators and observers, offering a wonderful alternative to construct worldwide relationships between taking part nations, in addition to share data and observe capabilities.
The facilitators and contributors shared expertise and experience on core areas together with the regulation of the ocean, uncrewed techniques, Go to, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS), patrol boat operations and drills, explosive ordnance disposal and diving.
Representatives from Mixed Maritime Forces, EUNAVFOR and UNITAR supplied day by day lectures on the regulation of the ocean, overlaying the United Nations Conference on the Regulation of the Sea (UNCLOS), the function of worldwide organizations in combating piracy and drug smuggling and the authorized points on the usage of uncrewed floor and air techniques.
Personnel from Bahrain-based Activity Drive 59 briefed contributors on how they’re at the moment using uncrewed techniques and supplied coaching on the Saildrone working portal, utilized by the Jordanian Maritime Operations Middle.
Taking full benefit of the services and belongings out there on the naval base, contributors practiced very important VBSS expertise, man overboard procedures and towing drills by simulating actual world eventualities, led by the Royal Jordanian Navy. Multi-national coaching workouts equivalent to these permit navies to seamlessly work collectively when such conditions happen in actual life.
Beneath the floor of the Gulf of Aqaba, the dive crew collaborating in Operation Northern Readiness practiced diving drills and shared finest practices, earlier than returning to the floor to share their data on explosive ordnance disposal. The crew additionally took the chance to view the recompression chambers at a close-by hospital, used to deal with or forestall decompression illness.
CAPT Ayman Al Naimat, Commander of CTF 154 and himself a member of the Royal Jordanian Navy stated, “That is an unimaginable alternative for each the CMF and the associate nations taking part on this train in addition to for the Royal Jordanian Navy. All members have been in a position to share their data, expertise and exhibit their expertise all through the week. The chance to share and study from one another is how we develop and enhance maritime safety operations and assist the rules-based worldwide order at sea.” CAPT Ayman Al Naimat added, “It was an honor to each host Operation Northern Readiness in my nation, and to guide Mixed Activity Drive 154 that coordinated this work.”
That is the fifth centered coaching occasion led by CTF 154, with plans for future coaching operations already underway. CMF launched CTF 154 in Could 2023 to arrange multinational maritime coaching alternatives at areas throughout the Center East, enabling extra CMF associate nations to take part in coaching alternatives with out ships or plane, significantly throughout programs taught ashore.
CMF consists of 41 member and associate nations whose forces function within the Purple Sea, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Gulf, and Indian Ocean. These nations are united in upholding worldwide rules-based order to guard the free movement of commerce, promote regional maritime safety, and deter illicit exercise by non-state actors.
