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Soldiers in the deep-diving pot

Soldiers in the deep-diving pot

Posted by | 27 May 2024 | , , | 0

Every submariner in the navy knows Neustadt in Holstein. For decades, the submariners have been training here for emergencies. The men wear swimming trunks and blue bathrobes. They walk across the tiled floor in slippers. The air in the building is warm and the water is around 30 degrees. But they are not going for a swim at eight o'clock in the morning on a Thursday, they are practising for an emergency. They are soldiers from the German Navy: seven submariners and their instructors. The location: the German Navy Emergency Response Training Centre, abbreviated to EAZS M. It is located in Neustadt in Holstein on the Baltic Sea. At the EAZS M, soldiers learn to fight fires on...

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Shipping history in the centre of Berlin

Shipping history in the centre of Berlin

Posted by | 24 May 2024 | , , | 0

Until the Second World War, the Museum of Oceanography built up an important collection of maritime exhibits. But war damage and the subsequent confiscation destroyed Kaiser Wilhelm II's dream. Yes, there really was such a thing - a museum of oceanography in the centre of Berlin, founded by the shipping enthusiast Kaiser Wilhelm II and at the time a must-see for every patriotic German. Now part of the collection of the German Museum of Technology and also represented with individual exhibits in the Military History Training Centre (WGAZ) in Flensburg-Mürwik, it was world-class at the time. It was opened on 5 March 1906 in the rooms of the Chemical Institute in...

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With determination to reverse the trend

With determination to reverse the trend

Posted by | 24 May 2024 | , , | 0

Shipbuilding industry calls for industrial policy determination from Brussels and Berlin The VSM - Verband für Schiffbau und Meerestechnik e.V. (German Shipbuilding and Ocean Industries Association) hosted its annual press conference at the venerable Slomanhaus am Steinhöft in Hamburg. And the media came: it is clear that the maritime side of our lives in Germany is slowly being recognised. Too much has happened on the sea routes, but it has not yet reached everyone: Germany is a maritime-dependent nation. The VSM never tires of emphasising this. And so the VSM issued an appeal to the European Union and the German government to present an industrial policy concept that would enable a return to the necessary growth...

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Naval operations school under new command

Naval operations school under new command

Posted by | 23 May 2024 | , , | 0

From a press release by Rostock Naval Command On Wednesday, 8 May 2024, the Commander Support and Head of the Operational Support Department, Rear Admiral Christoph Müller-Meinhard, handed over command of the Naval Operations School (MOS) from Captain Jens Grimm (54) to Captain Andreas Martin Seidl (59). Captain Grimm took command of the school in 2021. "The past 2.5 years have been characterised by the turnaround and its impact on training. I am grateful that, together with the dedicated people at the Naval Operations School, I have been able to make a contribution to consistently aligning our training with the requirements of the national...

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Shadow boxing: Russia unilaterally shifts Baltic Sea borders?

Shadow boxing: Russia unilaterally shifts Baltic Sea borders?

Posted by | 22 May 2024 | , , , | 0

Update 22.05.2024, 21:00 (see below) As several Russian media reported on the afternoon of 21 May, including TASS and Moscow Times, Russia intends to change its maritime borders. And cancels all documents 24 hours later. It is said that Russia intends to declare part of the waters in the eastern Gulf of Finland and areas near the cities of Baltiysk and Zelenogradsk in the Kaliningrad region as its internal waters. To this end, Russia has changed the geographical coordinates that define the baselines from which the width of the Russian territorial sea and the adjacent zone along the coast and islands is measured....

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