Well beyond swimming distance to the coast, it seemed like an act of dangerous derring-do, even for special forces soldiers. A chinook helicopter is loaded with Special Forces for a training parachute jump into the ocean where a submarine is waiting. ( Richard Lautens / Toronto Star ) | Order this photoFar off the coast of Portugal, the Canadian special forces soldiers vaulted themselves out the back of a military Hercules transport plane with nothing but empty ocean below. It was pretty amazing,” Maj-Gen. Mike Rouleau, commander of Canadian Special Operations Forces Command said in interview. But as the troops descended under their parachute canopies, a black mass broke the ocean surface — the Canadian submarine HMCS Windsor — for a carefully choreographed ocean rendezvous.

Source: thestar June 12, 2016 21:11 UTC