The exercise of submarine escape and rescue is a requirement of the RAN's submarine safety system and demonstrates that the procedures and equipment are in place to rescue personnel in the event of a submarine incident.
The method of submarine escape exercised as part of Exercise Black Carillon involves personnel transferring from a bottomed submarine into the James Fisher Submarine Rescue Vehicle, LR5, for transportation to the surface.
Upon surfacing, personnel were tended to onboard the Australian rescue ship, Seahorse Standard, with specialised RAN medical teams and equipment embarked.
"Black Carillon is an extraordinarily valuable opportunity to exercise our submarine escape and rescue capability," Commander Submarine Force Captain Brett Sampson said.
"The successful completion of the submarine escape as part of Exercise Black Carillon has demonstrated that the RAN is well equipped to take action to rescue submariners in the unlikely event of a submarine incident."
Black Carillon is the twelfth in a series of RAN submarine escape and rescue exercises designed to demonstrate RAN submarine rescue capability.
The RAN uses annual Black Carillon exercises to train and demonstrate this ability.