COMSUBIN: GOS fighters train with SDAI nuclei

19/11/14

From the 9 to the November 15 2014, the divers of the ready-to-use department of the Diving Operative Group took part in an exercise held in the waters off the archipelago of La Maddalena.

This activity, which also involved the operators belonging to the Nuclei SDAI employees (Sminamento Difesa Antimazzizzi Insidiosi) of Sardinia, has allowed to conduct an advanced training to the use of all the systems for diving and work equipment currently supplied to the underwater divisions.

Thanks to the tireless work of divers assigned to the SDAI (sites in La Spezia, Taranto, Ancona, Augusta, Cagliari, La Maddalena), the navy is able to perform the primary task of reclaiming thousands of unexploded ordnance, which every year come found in the ports and coasts of our country.

Just think that since January 2014 have been made harmless and destroyed 15 underwater mines of various kinds, 1 torpedo, 730 medium caliber projectiles (40 ÷ 90 mm), 88 large caliber projectiles (≥ 90 mm), 80 Specially loaded, 26 air bombs of various kinds, 34 anti-tank mines, 248 hand grenades, 1001 rifle bombs, 34 anti-personnel mines and 49 Fills for a total of over 2.300 explosive devices, not counting the tens of thousands of bullets of small caliber (12,7 ÷ 40 mm) that have been found and destroyed.

Highly specialized and equipped with the most sophisticated equipment, these men are trained by the Comsubin diving school and, thanks to the numerous patents and qualifications obtained in Italy and abroad, they represent the maximum expression of Italian professional diving.

For this reason Comsubin divers are an irreplaceable tool for the protection of public safety. In fact, the Underwater Operating Group expresses its capabilities by employing its men and equipment on a wide range of activities and operations ranging from purely military ones, to support scientific research activities in favor of ENEA or those on behalf of civil protection, in all those calamitous events that require professionalism for research, to conduct work and provide underwater rescue.