After three weeks at sea, DANEX 07 is over. Three exiting weeks filled with many daily challenges for the ships and their crews.

Flames formed the welcome committee as British fire fighters went in action today, during DANEX 07. For one guy, the heat became too much.

Co-operation between Danish Task Group, the Emergency Management Agency and the Danish Field Hospital has been an important element in todays disaster exercise.

DANEX 07: A massive earthquake Monday morning sent large groups of refugees to the Field Hospital.

Everybody is working hard to get help to the injured after the strong earthquake. The disaster relief exercise during DANEX 07 is in full swing.

It is a rainy morning in Frederikshavn. ABSALON delivers its cargo of vehicles and personnel from the Emergency Management Agency for todays disaster exercise.

On the third week, Danish Task Group is working hard on board the command ship THETIS to conduct an exercise with everything that it takes´.

It is not uncommon for navy chaplain Henning Nielsen to hold the service outside the normal frame, Hyllested-Rosmus parish on Djursland.

The Field Hospital from the 5th Logistics Battalion is deployed from Vordingborg to Ålbæk north of Frederikshavn to provide humanitarian support during DANEX 07.

What many boys dream about, is reality for the 26 years old Lieutenant Jens-Christian Thomsen from Strandby in Northern Jutland.

As a part of DANEX 07 both equipment and personnel from the Danish Field Hospital was landed in Frederikshavn today.

During DANEX 07 both HDMS SKADEN and HDMS STØREN have been declared ready for international operations.

So far, the commanding officer of the Polish fast patrol boat ORP GROM has been very satisfied with DANEX 07.

– We got it. Even twice. The words come in both Polish and English, when Sub Lieutenant Majchrzak proudly tells about the hunt for the Polish submarine SOKÓL.

The Special Support and Recce patrols from the Danish Home Guard are training insertion with landing craft.

Yesterday, the blue LYNX-helicopter from the command ship THETIS hunted a submarine north of Skagen and managed to find the submerged warrior.

As preparations for Monday’s disaster exercise, HMS ALBION today picked up parts of the Danish Field Hospital at Korsør.

Since the 1st of January 2000 the Danish Defence has been responsible for conducting surveillance, enforcement and fighting of oil pollution at sea.

Not only the persons at sea are busy during DANEX 07. On land the FLS (Forward Logistics Site) at Naval Base Korsør have a lot to do as well.

Those who visited ABSALON during the weekend, could see other things than sailors and rubber dinghies. The Danish Red Cross and DanChurchAid were also on board.

The Danish Home Guard’s Special Support and Recce Company participates in DANEX 07 with two combat swimmer patrols, a patrol and a signal and support element.

A defect cooling water pump caused the Polish submarine SOKOL in DANEX 07 to take a short break to be repaired.

We have seen it before, and we will see it again. The international media are on the spot when – and often even before – military operations are started.

The logistics officer Louise Rynne and the rest of the crew of ABSALON were in great shape, when 300 natives of Bornholm had to be evacuated during NEO.

From the early morning, a delicious smell spread in the corridors of the command ship THETIS.

Now it counts. After a succesful portvisit in Copenhagen the ships participating in DANEX 07 are back at sea.

The laws of war are extensive and sometimes difficult to understand. Therefore miltary commanders need legal advise when planning and conducting operations.

After an eventful weekend in Copenhagen, the ships participating in DANEX 07 have now sailed out to sea.

During the portvisit of the DANEX force in Copenhagen, many peope have wondered about the equipment at the stern of the command ship HDMS THETIS.

On Sunday morning Copenhagen was woken up by march and music.

Today the Polish submarine SOKÓL that participates in DANEX 07 was visited by the private Danish submarine, Kraka.

Today Denmark got the ships bell back from the English, which they stole from us in 1807. Never before has a country returned a prize of war to Denmark.

With water spraying up from the harbour the helicopter from THETIS performed a rescue operation for the many people who had shown up to see the DANEX units.

There was a distinguished visit today on one of the Navy’s ships in Copenhagen. This afternoon HH Prince Nikolai and his classmates visited PETER TORDENSKIOLD.

Normally visitors on ABSALON have only two legs. Last week the ship was visited by a couple of lively four-legged guests.

The Navy’s largest ship, ABSALON, was the first to arrive in Copenhagen early this morning.

The ships are in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.

The ships participating in DANEX 07 are on their way to Copenhagen. Ahead lies a weekend with exciting events and activities.

The evacuation from Bonnie Island is over. Yesterday, the expeditionary force from the Army and Navy had a hard time securing and evacuating the many civilians.

Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, General Lance L. Smith, United States Air Force, visited DANEX 07 together with Chief of Defence, General Jesper Helsø.

There was a good co-operation between the Army and the Navy during the evacuation exercise that was conducted yesterday on Bornholm.

The ships are west of the Isle of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. Later today the ships will deploy towards Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.

It is busy in the big galley of ABSALON during DANEX 07. The three chefs are making spaghetti with meat sauce for 300 evacuees

Things are busy at Raghammer Odde on Bonnie Island. Citizens from EU and NATO are being evacuated to get away from the insecure situation on the island.

The Norwegian FPBs together with ORP GROM and HDMS SLEIPNER conducted a damage control exercise Tuesday the 28th.

The ships are outside the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.

Rear Admiral Nils Christian Wang, Admiral Danish Fleet, is presently visiting DANEX 07.

Cannons firing, landing operations and evacuation from the beach is what you normally would expect from a large naval exercise.

For the second time in 2007 the Joint UAV Element is back on Bornholm – this time to fly their Unmanned Areal Vehicles (UAVs) in conncection with DANEX 07.

Trouble is smouldering on Bonnie Island – a fictive name for Bornholm during Exercise DANEX 07.

The ships are outside the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.

After an eventful weekend in Rønne the ships have departed for sea so that DANEX 07 really can get underway.

During Exercise DANEX 07 it is not sufficient to say or write “Commanding Officer Starklint”.

The ships are outside the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.

It took an extra round of tug-of-war before the crew of STØREN could be proclaimed as the worthy winner of the DANEX 07 Olympic Games.

Aquired knowledge must be kept up and new knowledge must be added. This is also the case when your post is lookout on one of the Navy’s ships.

This morning the DANEX 07 participants have arrived in Rønne. Ahead lies an exciting weekend with ships open to the public and “Olympic Games”.

For exercise: Helicopter in distress. The words sound from the main broadcast on the command ship THETIS.

Captain Jens Walther, Commander (DA) 1. Squadron, has sailed with the commandship THETIS.

Many ships of the Danish navy are at sea. They are participating in the Exercise DANEX 07 which is lead by Commander Danish Task Group Commodore Palle Cortes as chief of the exercise.

Exercise DANEX 07 will take place in the Baltic, the Great Belt area, the Kattegat and the Skagerrak in the timeframe August 22nd - September 11th.