Exercise Diving | Taiwan

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Republic of Taiwan Naval Academy
"Exercise Diving"
TOP SECRET
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Course Name: Combat Diving Skills trained: Underwater Assault Diving Location: Cijin Beach, Kaoshiung, Taiwan Terrain Type: Coast, Sea Beach Exact Location: TOP SECRET

INVOLVED UNITS​

Service Branch	Participants	Location of Installation (s)
Republic of Taiwan Army Special Operation Command	101st Amphibious Recon Company |50x Army Combat Recon Divers	Taipei Army Installation
Republic of Taiwan Air Force Special Operation Command	1st Garuda Airborne Company | 50x Air Force Pararescue Divers	Taipei Air Base
Republic of Taiwan Naval Special Operation Command	12th Sea Lion Company | 50x Special Boat Service Divers	Anping Naval Installation
Republic of Taiwan Marine Corps Special Operation Command	2nd Combat Support Company | 50x Marine Assault Divers	Chiayi Marine Corps Installation

EQUIPMENT EMPLOYED IN EXERCISE DIVING​

Diver gear (rebreathers, waterproof suit, snorkel and eye protection)

250x Karmin K85 RHIB

T91 combat rifle, T65K2 assault rifle

Amphibious armament

The course lasts 2 weeks, afterwards the following insignia would be given to the participants, indicating they mastered the given skill: Diving

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All assigned units would prepare their equipment and pack their bags the night before departing from their home bases around the national territory.

Early in the morning, several buses from the Republic of Taiwanese Army Logistics Command would pick these 101st Army Amphibious Recon Company Special Operatives, 1st Garuda Airborne Company (AF), 12th Sea Lion Company(N) and 2nd Combat Support Company (MC) up at their locations. Several Buses from Taipei would board these 100 of Army Amphibious Recon & Garuda Airbone Personnel, 50 of Naval Special Operative Personnel would board buses from Anping Naval Installation and 50 of 2nd Combat Support Group personnel would board buses from Chiayi MC Installations and they would leave for Kaohsiung, Republic of Taiwan Naval Academy.

Once all participants would be settled down at the barracks of the Republic of Taiwan Naval Academy in Zuoying District, Kaohsiung they would be divided into several groups.

This course was specially reserved for Special Forces of Marine Corps, Navy, Army and Air Force. This course will prepare them to be stealth divers of Taiwan Special Operation Command as part of the ongoing specialization program for the aforementioned units.

During the 2 weeks, the recruits would learn the these main capabilities of a combat diver and to carry out the following operations:

• Amphibious assault: stealthy deployment of land or boarding forces and to be combat ready on arrival.
• Sabotage: Disabling docked hostile ships and infrastructure. Putting limpet mines on ships.
• Clandestine surveying: Surveying a beach before a troop landing, or other forms of unauthorized underwater surveying.
  

 

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The groups would get on different buses and brought to different specially chosen lakes in the areas and pools.

They would first learn how to get into the water from different altitudes, ranging from a 5m trampolin to the side of a RHIB while reducing to the maximum the noise generated and the waves created. They would then also be tought how to use the rebreathers who enables them to breathe underwater without generating bubbles such as with usual scuba diving oxygen tanks and therefore without revealing their location to hostiles on the surface.On the different pools they would get used to navigating close to the floor of the lake/pool/sea and how to get to a designated spot.

They would be using frogmen gear.

 

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As these combat divers personnel would learn how to dive by using frogmen gear including rebreathers, these personnel would be brought into Cijin Beach. Each personnel would gear up as using frogmen gear. The "frogmen" would conduct the assigned exercises, learning to assualt shores in a stealthy way. They would learn how to get rid of the equipment once on land and how to put them away in a concealed way. This was very relevant in order to mantain the anonimacy of the mission and remain undetected by enemy forces. Afterwards, and having mastered how to perform this underwater movements, they would move on the simple sabotage lessons. They would learn how to activate and deactivate simple sticky bombs of those used by special forces against static targets such as docked ships and infrastructure. They would also learn how to use underwater tools such as hyperbaric welders.

 

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After completing the lesson on how to use hyperbaric welders, these special operation personnel would continue their training with different underwater explosives in order to perfectionate their skills in sabotaging enemy ships.They would do so first by learning how these explosives work and how to handle them on safe environments and afterwards they would begin practicing their activation and deactivation under "real" circumstances by simulating targets in pools. A stealthy getaway is also a vital part of a sabotage mission, so they would also practice the extraction process of amphibious missions. This would be done by covertly leaving the area of operations and signaling a friendly extraction unit by using 250x Karmin K85 RHIB.

 

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The "frogmen" recruits would have almost completed the course. Their last assignment and skill to be practiced was a nightly amphibious assault. The recruits would be split into small groups and brought to a open location consisting of a river with dense jungle covering the sides. At one point, further down the river, a small beach would be prepared and on the other end a small bunker installed.

The different groups would be embarked on zodiac boats and navigate down the river. Once at a safe distance from their objective, the navigator would turn off the motors and just drift covered by the darkness of night. He would eventually fix the boat and signal the frogmen. These would silently get into the water and begin approaching the beach in a stealthy way, as practiced. After some minutes, they would arrive and go into formation. Slowly they would advance through the sand, pointing their watertight assault rifles.

After applying some tactical manouvers they would eventually seize control of the bunker. The sueprvisors would be watching all this and write reports on each group in order to point out errors things to be corrected. All groups would perform this final test. Of course during the whole course, the participants would practice and improve their swimming skills.

The day after the last group performed this exercise, all recruits would gather at the central square of the Taiwanese Naval Academy they were staying and on a small ceremony, they would be awarded the badges that indicate they were capable "frogmen" now and mastered the combat/assault divers course. Afterwards, the Units would return to their barracks, pack their belongings and board the different buses and trains that would transport them back to their respective garrisons.

 

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