Submarine Escape Training Facility
- Submarine Escape Training Facility
The Submarine Escape Training Facility, located at HMAS Stirling on Garden Island, gives submariner applicants the training required to escape from a submarine that has become disabled. [cite journal |author=Walker, R |title=The history of Australian submarine escape and rescue operations. |journal=South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society journal |volume=29 |issue=2 |date=1999 |issn=0813-1988 |oclc=16986801 |url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6002 |accessdate=2008-03-16 ] Inside the building is a pool approximately 20 meters deep from which candidates swim to the top from the bottom. The purpose of this is to give the candidate an understanding that they must breathe out quickly to avoid their lungs from bursting. It is the only submarine escape training system in the southern hemisphere.
A similar facility is operated by the Royal Navy at the Submarine Escape Training Tower (SETT) in Gosport, UK. This 32-metre tower can be booked by civilian scuba dive clubs and is popular with UK divers [http://www.horseadivecentre.com/sett-about.htm] .
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