{"id":253903,"date":"2017-06-07T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=253903"},"modified":"2017-06-07T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T20:00:08","slug":"9-nations-start-diving-exercise-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/9-nations-start-diving-exercise-guam\/","title":{"rendered":"9 nations start diving exercise in Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GUAM<\/strong>\u2014Nine Western Pacific Naval Symposium nations commenced a disaster response-focused exercise, the Western Pacific Naval Symposium Diving Exercise2017, on Monday, June 5. <\/p>\n<p>The WPNS-DIVEX 2017 is a biennial diving exercise conducted by WPNS nations to enhance cooperation, interoperability, and tactical proficiency in diving operations. The last DIVEX was held in Singapore in 2015. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that this year\u2019s DIVEX 17 simulates a military assistance humanitarian response to a catastrophic natural disaster is a significant milestone,\u201d said Rear Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, commander, Joint Region Marianas. \u201cThe skills we practice during this exercise have global indications when it comes to our ability to rapidly deploy and work together.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>During the exercise, participating units will respond to a scenario that mirrors a coordinated response to a natural disaster. Participating diving units of WPNS nations will be tasked to conduct undersea geographic assessments in order to reopen ports so that humanitarian aid can commence. <\/p>\n<p>Participating nations include Australia, Canada, Chile, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, United Kingdom, and the United States. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUAM\u2014Nine Western Pacific Naval Symposium nations commenced a disaster response-focused exercise, the Western Pacific Naval&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[17119,51,745,17120],"class_list":["post-253903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-divex","tag-guam","tag-singapore","tag-wpns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}