The divers of the Comsubin Underwater Operational Command and Raiders continue their remediation activities from explosive remnants of war, still present in the waters of the Italian coasts and lakes.
In July the divers of the "GOS" Underwater Operative Group destroyed more than 2.000 unexploded ordnance, including medium and large caliber bullets, underwater mines, mortar bombs, aircraft bombs and hand grenades and large quantities of detonators. The reclamation activities were carried out in the Tre Ponti area in Livorno, Anzio, Messina, Trapani, Taranto, Molfetta, Cagliari, in the waters of the island of La Maddalena and in the Campania coast.
The most complex intervention was carried out around the island of Trimelone (Lake Garda) by the divers of the SDAI Unit (Sminamento Difesa Antimezzi Insidiosi) of Ancona and the Ready Employment Department of the GOS, which have been operating in that area since April. Over ten thousand unexploded ordnance or parts of it that were rescued from the seabed off Brenzone, where in the 1954 a military powder keg blew up, disseminating its contents in water.
For the lovers of the sea or of the lake who, during the warm season, take up recreational underwater activity again, we advise you not to touch any artefacts, possibly found, whose shape may or may not remind you of an explosive device or parts of it.
What is instead a must do, for everyone's safety, is to identify the site of finding the object and, if you have with you an underwater camera take a picture of yourself. Then the finding must be reported immediately to the local Harbor Office or Carabinieri station, which will request the intervention of the Diving Operations Group of Comsubin who will provide for its removal and blasting.
