Royal Canadian Mounted Police assigned to a Marine Security Emergency Response Team head to board the survey research vessel Strait Hunter, simulating a migrant vessel during Exercise Frontier Sentinel 2012 May 7, 2012 at sea off Sydney, Nova Scotia. Exercise Frontier Sentinel is a combined interagency exercise involving Joint Task Force Atlantic, the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy Fleet Forces Command. The exercise is designed to continue to develop and validate the existing plans, treaties and standard operation procedures for a bilateral response to maritime homeland defense and security threats.