From 15 to 26 July 2019 the divers of the Underwater Operating Group (GOS) of the Underwater Command and Incursors of the Navy (Comsubin), seconded to the SDAI Nuclei (Demining Defense Antimezzi Insidious) of Ancona conducted a delicate underwater operation in the waters of the lake of Varna (Bolzano), which made it possible to remove over 5.000 explosive devices residual from the war.
Following a report from private citizens about the presence of some artifacts attributable to explosive devices, the prefecture of Bolzano requested and coordinated a joint emergency remediation intervention that was conducted by the Underwater Operating Group (GOS) of the Navy and by the bomb squads of the 2nd Engineers Regiment of Trento of the Alpine Brigade Julia Army.
The divers, arrived on the lake, immediately began diving activities that allowed to identify and remove 5.122 Austrian rifle bombs dating back to the First World War, each containing 60 g of explosive charge, for a total of about 307 Kg of explosives. The bombs recovered by the Comsubin operators were handed over to the Army bomb squad who will destroy them.
It is good to remind anyone who should come across objects that in shape and size may call up an explosive device or parts of it, that these artifacts can be very dangerous and therefore must not be touched or tampered with in any way, but the finding must be reported immediately. to the local Harbor Master's Office or to the nearest Carabinieri station, so as to allow the intervention of the divers of the Navy or the Army bomb squad in order to restore the safety conditions of our sea.
