During the 2016 operational campaign, ship Antaeus arrived in Calabria, off the coast of Punta Stilo, the scene of one of the battles between the Regia Marina and the Royal Navy with the highest concentration of naval units of the Second World War (9 July 1940).
But the reason why the Comsubin unit moored off the coast of Monasterace Marina is to investigate a wreck, which sank on March 14, 1942: the oceanic submarine Admiral Millo.
Of the 106 Italian boats that sank during the Second World War, the Millo it was the fortieth. The large ocean submarine, which would soon be deployed in the waters of Japan, was returning from its mission in the Mediterranean and was sailing on the surface about 2 miles from the beach of Monasterace when a lurking English submarine launched four torpedoes at it, two of which hit, causing it to sink quickly.
On 10 July 2016, more than 70 years after that tragic day, the Navy, appreciating the sensitivity of the municipal administration of Monasterace towards the Italian sailors who fell in the fulfillment of their duty, ordered that the divers of Comsubin conduct a thorough inspection of the submarine.
Underwater operations, carried out at a depth of more than 70 meters through one of the wire-guided vehicles supplied with the Diving Operations Group, allowed the gaze of today's sailors to stop in front of what remains of the submarine Millo, thus making it possible to pay tribute to the Italian fallen in it.
