Polish and Arab cadets take part in joint sea exercises

Fifty Polish and Arab cadets, students of the Polish Naval Academy in Gdynia (northern Poland), are taking part in a joint two-month-long training voyage from Gdynia to the Persian Gulf, on board the Polish training ship ORP "Wodnik". According to Lieutenant Commander Wojciech Mundt, a spokesman for the Naval Academy, 15 students from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and 10 from Qatar and Poland are participating in the exercises. Mundt said this was the first time that such a large contingent of Arab students, who are training at the Gdynia Academy, were receiving such sea training.