The end of Croatian diving for the Libyan coast guard

(B2) For three Libyan coast guards and three other Libyan sailors, this March 29 sounds like the end of diving lessons.

For five weeks, they followed a training module at the Croatian Navy Training Center in Split (Croatia), managed by EUNAVFOR MED's Operation Sophia. The closing ceremony took place at the Croatian Navy training center in Split, in the presence of its chief, the deputy commander of Operation Sophia EUNAVFOR MED and its chief of the training sector of the OHQ, as well as a Libyan delegation of senior officers.

The course, organized by the Croatian Navy, focused on diving procedures and techniques in order to be able to carry out underwater maintenance operations on ships. The course also included some lessons on human rights, first aid and gender equality policy (a ritual on the European side).

With this course, Operation Sophia reports having reached a level of 355 Libyan Coast Guard and Navy personnel trained.

(NGV)

Read our file No. 69. The training of Libyan coastguards and sailors by Europeans