COMSUBIN divers get ready to clean up explosive devices

(To Marina Militare)
11/03/16

Last February, off the port of Savona, two wrecks loaded with unexploded remnants of war were found, for which the intervention of the Command Underwater and Incursors (COMSUBIN) of the Navy.

Il Diving Operations Group (GOS) of Comsubin, activated by the local Territorial office of the government, intervened with the divers of the SDAI Nucleus (Demining Defense Antimezzi Insidiosi) who carried out a first technical inspection.

In consideration of the considerable depth to which both wrecks lie, the Diving and Inshore Pools will intervene for the reclamation of the area from next 14 March through the support of the ship Antaeus, a naval unit employed by Comsubin equipped with the most sophisticated equipment for deep underwater works, and the EOD-NAVY operators of the Ready-to-Use Department of the GOS

The underwater operations will last for several days in relation to the extent of the intervention to be performed and the weather and sea conditions.