HSV-X1 Joint Venture of US Navy

The multi-service high speed vessel, HSV-X1 Joint Venture pulls into the port of Souda Bay, Crete, on Apr 3, 2002. The 315-foot-long experimental craft is a wave-piercing catamaran capable of 45 knots and is currently being operated by joint U.S. Army and U.S. Navy personnel. Joint Venture’s naval employments include replenishment and re-supply at sea, special operations insertion and redeployment, reconnaissance, command and control, anti-submarine warfare, mine warfare, humanitarian assistance and evacuation, surface warfare and force protection. This ship has served a deployment in Operation Enduring Freedom, spending time around the Horn of Africa, the region containing the countries of Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia.
Author: U.S. Navy photo by Paul Farley.

Catamaran: Oar training on the Odra River

Sweep row training on Catamaran: Oar training on the Odra River (Oder River) in Wroclaw. The Odra is in Central Europe, originating in the Czech Republic and flowing through western Poland, later forming the border between Poland and Germany, and it finally flows into the Szczecin Lagoon north of Stettin (Szczecin) and then into the Baltic Sea.