The students perform information practices in crisis situations during an exercise in the Navy in which five boats and aerial means look for the submergible Siroco that "is incommunicado" in this simulation, which has concluded with "the rescue of part of the crew with life and several deceased. "
Students of the Degrees of Journalism, Audiovisual Communication and Publicity and Public Relations of the San Antonio Catholic University have participated yesterday and today in a simulation of loss, search and location of the Siroco submarine organized by the Spanish Navy at the Arsenal Submarine Base. Cartagena
Specifically, within the collaboration that the UCAM maintains with the Armed Forces, the university students of the Faculty of Communication and their professors helped to manage the information in this "crisis situation", in addition to attending press conferences and carrying out special programs of radio and television in this exercise coordinated by the Chief of Staff of the Submarine Flotilla, Fernando García, and the Commander of the Submarine Flotilla, Alejandro Cuerda.
Before starting the naval exercise, the students of the Catholic University approached one of the submersibles to know their stays and operation.
Then they visited the simulators that the Ministry of Defense has in Cartagena and, from there, they were generating news about the loss of connection in the waters of Cádiz with that submarine in which 58 people traveled with food for two weeks, the activation of the procedure of Search of the Salvage and Rescue Plan of Submarines, the follow-up to the families of the military that are not located, the mobilization of five ships and aerial means in some 80 miles established as a search zone, etcetera.
The students participating in this activity have received a certificate recognizing their work.
Source: UCAM Cartagena