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BUDAPEST, Hungary – Soldiers from across Europe suited up in heavy diving equipment inside a cavernous flooded stone quarry deep beneath the Hungarian capital. Once their air tanks, flippers and waterproof diving suits were secured, they slipped beneath the cold water and, flashlights in hand, disappeared into the darkness.
A Belgian military diver is returning to a diving platform on 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.
The Central European country, and especially its capital, were heavily bombed by both Germany and the Allied forces during World War II. After the end of the war, many of those explosives were tossed into the Danube to reduce the danger to civilians. Nearly 80 years later, much of that ordnance remains lodged in the riverbed.
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.
The strength of the current – the flow of the Danube near Budapest averages more than 2,300 cubic meters per second – makes Europe’s second-largest river an ideal staging ground for preparing divers for extreme conditions, especially when such scenarios are difficult to replicate in their own countries.
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