PUERTO CASTILLO NAVAL BASE, Honduras - Honduran navy divers stationed at Puerto Castillo Naval Base fought their way through Course 17 today, literally. The course is designed to build confidence between pairs of divers who find themselves stuck within a riptide or other strong underwater current and have only one air tank to share.
The divers are given their instructions on the pier before they jump into the water. There will be no time for instructions or guidance once the exercise begins.
The scenario is explained to them: they will jump into the water and one of them will be caught in a strong current. This current will rip that diver's equipment from him and the other diver will have to share his air regulator with him. They must stay submerged for ten minutes and all this time there will be four instructors constantly pulling them lower into the water, rolling them, pulling them apart and other forms of harassment to separate, disorient and anger them...[Military News]
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