The whale watchers who shadow Nato war games
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One of Nato's largest military exercises came to a close last week after 13-days of mock combat.
Joint Warrior involved thousands of personnel, dozens of aircraft and the deployment of 30 warships and submarines in the sea of Scotland.
Marine conservation charity Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust observed the military activity off the west coast.
Trust staff and volunteers shadowed the war games to check for potential impact on marine life.
HWDT has shadowed Joint Warrior before, but this year added video range tracking kit to the monitoring equipment aboard its yacht Silurian.
The charity has now released a series of images from the expedition.
The survey work was done from the yacht Silurian seen here on a previous trip to St Kilda
The Silurian and its crew on the latest effort to observe Exercise Joint Warrior
Trust staff and volunteers watched for any changes in marine life behaviour
The trip made some familiar sightings
They also caught sight of some of the 30 military ships on the exercise
UK-led Joint Warrior is one of Nato's largest training events
- Published7 October 2015
