28.06.2012
On the third, closing day of the FRUKUS-2012 joint naval exercise, participants will practice vessel examination activities and rescue of a man overboard.
The last phase of the exercise will take half of the day, and then the ships will start the trip to St. Petersburg.
The ships will carry out episodes by pairs. French frigate
De Grasse and British destroyer HMS
York will inspect a "violator" vessel acted by Russian tug
MB-119 first. At the same time, the Task Group 2 comprising Russian frigate
Yaroslav Mudry and American cruiser USS
Normandy will practice maneuvers on searching and rescuing of a man overboard. Then the task groups will shift each other.
Salvage of a "damaged" ship will be the last episode of the international exercise. Ships will render assistance to each other within the task groups.
Upon termination of the closing episode, the FRUKUS-2012 participants in line ahead will move towards the Russia's "maritime capital" St. Petersburg led by frigate
Yaroslav Mudry. As is planned, the trip will take less than a day – all ships are supposed to arrive at the entrance buoy of the Big Kronshtadt Harbor by 10 am June 30.
