Military divers from Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Lithuania have participated in an international training exercise in Budapest, Hungary, working in flooded underground mines, lakes and caves and in the rushing Danube River.
A Belgian military diver is getting ready to dive under the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, during an international training exercise which prepares military divers to find and remove unexploded underwater ordnances. Hungary this year hosted the 10-day exercise for the second year in a row and provided the soldiers from Hungary, Germany, Belgium and Lithuania with hands-on training in a variety of environments, like facing the powerful current of the Danube River.
This was the second year in a row that Hungary hosted the 10-day exercise, which provided the soldiers with hands-on training in a variety of environments: diving 24 meters deep into the flooded passages of a former limestone quarry, submerging into lakes and caves, and facing the powerful current of the Danube River.Pentagon rushes defenses and advisers to Middle East as Israel’s ground assault in Gaza loomsFor Hungary’s EOD and Riverine Guard Regiment, such tasks are a daily routine.
The Mines Advisory Group, a U.K.-based humanitarian and advocacy organization that finds, removes and destroys unexploded bombs and other munitions from places affected by conflict, says that “landmines and unexploded ordnance will threaten and endanger the lives of Ukrainian people for years to come.”in June, it sent a torrent of water from the country’s largest reservoir into cities, towns and lowlands downstream on the Dnieper River.
Belgian divers suited up in vests weighted down with lead plates and boots made of metal to keep them anchored to the river bed as the current rushed by. Diving without air tanks in a fast water environment, they wore heavy metal helmets which were connected to the boat by a long air hose.
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