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MINE WARFARE and DIVING SUMMER 2019 #MAD2019 www.mcdoa.org.uk MINE WARFARE and DIVING SUMMER 2019 #MAD2019 WHAT IS SWEEP? • DIVING ONBOARD HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH • BRANCH CHAMPION UPDATES www.mcdoa.org.uk www.mcdoa.org.uk 2 EDITORIAL Sponsor: Cdr Ash Spencer (Commander MCM2) Editor-in-Chief: Lt Cdr Paul Irving (CO MCM2 Crew 3) Editor: Lt Mike Hughes Editorial Office: MAD Magazine (C/O COS MCM2) MCM2 Staff Office Cochrane Building HMNB Portsmouth PO1 3NH Thanks to everyone who has contributed to #MAD2019. Please let us know your suggestions and recommendations for improvements and topics for inclusion in the next edition! Designed and printed with the outstanding support of Navy Graphics, Whale Island. MINE WARFARE AND DIVING – SUMMER 2019 www.mcdoa.org.uk www.mcdoa.org.uk 3 CONTENTS Foreword ......................................................................................... 4 THE FUTURE IS NOW Defence Minister Announces Investment In ‘MCM In A Box’ ........... 8 Project WILTON ............................................................................... 9 The Replacement For NAUTIS (ORCA) ........................................... 10 What Is Sweep? ............................................................................. 11 CURRENT OPERATIONS UKMCMFOR ................................................................................. 18 The Bay Class: Our Flexible Friend .................................................. 20 Operations In The Gulf ................................................................. 23 SDU2 London City Airport Task (Op TAPESTRY) ............................. 24 MCM1 Review ............................................................................... 26 MCM2 Review ............................................................................... 27 Elizabethan Divers ......................................................................... 28 Life In The UK Naval Support Facility (UKNSF) ................................ 29 Return From The Gulf ................................................................... 30 FOST(N) Update ............................................................................. 34 COMMUNITY UPDATES 2018 MCM Conference ................................................................. 36 Efficiency awards ........................................................................... 38 Course Photos 2018–2019 ............................................................. 38 Logistics Matters, Honest! .............................................................40 MWC: Doctrine, Trials And You! .................................................... 41 MW Branch Champion Update ...................................................... 43 Roles For MW Ratings Outside Of MCMVs .................................... 46 MCD Branch Champion Update .................................................... 47 Advice from the MWO/MCDO Career Manager ............................48 CIS In A MCMV – So What’s The Catch? ....................................... 49 Project Unify ................................................................................. 51 Life as an OiC in FDS ..................................................................... 52 Did you know? A guide to deployment allowances ................... 54 Career manager's top tips ............................................................. 55 The DDH Naval Military Diving Team ............................................. 56 Diving Safety & NLIMS Reporting .................................................. 57 SoD Diving & DDST........................................................................ 58 Operation Stop Gap ...................................................................... 60 Mine warfare Association (MWA) .................................................. 62 Royal Navy Clearance Divers' Association (RNCDA) ........................ 63 MINE WARFARE AND DIVING – SUMMER 2019 www.mcdoa.org.uk www.mcdoa.org.uk 4 FOREWORD Capt Ken Houlberg RN Since starting this role The future of Royal Navy in the summer of 2018, I Mine Warfare and Diving Captain Mine Warfare have thoroughly enjoyed is exciting. This cadre is and Patrol Vessels, meeting our MCM crews the enabling force for our Diving and Fishery and diving units around the country’s two strategic UK and overseas. Without deterrents: nuclear and Protection exception I have been conventional – the latter #MAD2019 enormously impressed will be centred around our by the professionalism, new Queen Elizabeth Class Welcome to the 2019 edition determination and great (QEC) aircraft carriers and of the Mine Warfare and sense of humour I have seen the Maritime Task Group Diving (MAD) magazine within this cadre. Combine (MTG) for the next 50 years. which builds on a fantastic this with the community’s How we are going to do Mine Countermeasures extraordinary resilience, grit, this over the forthcoming (MCM) conference organised and ‘can do’ attitude and we decades will change, and this by Cdr MCM1 and his team have a winning combination was described well by some last autumn. In addition that is the envy of the world. of our experts – together to traditional print, this Indeed, when I called on with industry colleagues – at magazine is also available as CTF52 (Cdre Mike Egan USN) the MCM conference. We an interactive PDF document last September in the Gulf, he should be optimistic because for the first time. This will was keen to learn how we in innovative development enable it to be publicised the UK had ‘cracked the MCM is something that, in my more widely within our code’. BZ and keep it up! I experience, the Mine Warfare community and will improve am eternally grateful for the and Diving community has access for you and loyal support of our families always done well in order your families. and friends; without this, to keep us current, relevant none of our successes would and capable against the very be possible. However, we latest threats and adversarial continue to face challenges technology. From CDBA to and I am acutely conscious CDLSE, from Oropesa sweeps that operational tempo; to influence sweeping, Tons, variety; and a life/work Rivers, Hunts, Sandowns, balance that is considerate of Towed Acoustic Generators, families are very important PAPs, Seafox, S2093, etc, RN factors for us to MCM has always evolved and get right. always will. MINE WARFARE AND DIVING – SUMMER 2019 www.mcdoa.org.uk www.mcdoa.org.uk 5 This year’s edition is Community updates. deliberately styled in 3 Articles in this ‘by the sections: The Future is Now; community, for the Current Operations; and community’ section include: Community Updates. news and top-tips from your Career Managers and Branch The Future is Now. Champions; recent awards; Our Secretary of State for diving safety; our heritage; Defence recently announced and information about a £75m investment in new the Mine Clearance Divers’ technology, including new Association (MCDA) and Mine Cdr Ash Spencer autonomous mine hunting Warfare Association (MWA). vessels and a concept Commander MCM2 called ‘MCM In A Box’ A heartfelt thanks to all those (MCMIAB), and I am hopeful who have contributed to that there will be further this edition of MAD. I look announcements regarding forward to hearing your progress with our Mine feedback along with your Countermeasures and good ideas and suggestions Hydrographic Capability for next year’s edition. (MHC) over the coming Although I had been away months. This section outlines from the small ship and diving the latest developments community for some time and with Project WILTON, technology moves on quickly, showcases the autonomous one thing has remained the sweep technology that same: the high quality and Cdr Al Nekrews we are trialling, and gives amazing achievements of Commanding Officer FDS an overview of the new the people in this tight-knit Command System which will community who deliver on replace NAUTIS in our MCMVs operations in the UK and over the next few years. abroad every day of the year. I am very proud to be your Current Operations. Captain MFP and I hope you A review of Mine Warfare enjoy #MAD2019. and Diving operational activities undertaken by our fabulous men and women in front-line units around the world over the last 12 months. Cdr Andy Ashfield-Smith Commander MCM1 MINE WARFARE AND DIVING – SUMMER 2019 www.mcdoa.org.uk www.mcdoa.org.uk 6 www.mcdoa.org.uk www.mcdoa.org.uk 7 MINE WARFARE AND DIVING – SUMMER 2019 www.mcdoa.org.uk www.mcdoa.org.uk 8 DEFENCE MINISTER ANNOUNCES INVESTMENT IN ‘MCM IN A BOX’ By Cdr Mark Atkinson On Monday 1 Apr at the Defence Transformation Fund launch event the Secretary of State for Defence announced that the RN would be Where will these new MCM Maritime spending £75m on two new initiatives, one of Autonomous Systems operate? which is called "Mine Countermeasures in a This proposal will accelerate delivery of Maritime Autonomous Box (MCMIAB)." Systems to support UK MCM Operations in the Gulf. “As we speak, the Royal Navy’s MCM Fleet are undertaking the When will they begin operations? difficult and dangerous task of locating and destroying the mines that menace global shipping. We believe we can radically reduce We plan to deliver this capability within the next three years. the time taken to complete these missions and reduce the risk to our sailors. Imagine a world in which Autonomous Surface Vessels What about our current minehunters? (ASVs) tow ultra-modern Synthetic Aperture Sonars (SAS) at speed to If successful, this project should see us transition from the current detect those deadly
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