Ship Alliance, after more than eighty days of scientific activity in the Arctic Ocean and 12400 nautical miles traveled, it returned to the Naval Base of La Spezia thus completing two campaigns at high latitudes: the sixth research campaign of the High North program and the NREP22 campaign.
Ship Alliance, a polyvalent hydro-oceanographic research unit that works in favor of NATO and the MMI, under the command of the Navy's mine countermeasures forces, which left the Ligurian city of La Spezia and after arriving in the port of Tromso, saw the alternation of two scientific teams, one made up of staff from the CMRE (Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation), which carried out the Sea Trial NREP22 (Nordic Recognized Environmental Picture 22), and that of the Hydrographic Institute of the Navy which instead continued the annual campaign High North 22.
During the activities, latest generation sensors were used, in an area of operations at high latitudes between the Strait of Fram, the Greenland Sea, the Svalbard Islands and the Yermak Plateau to define the mapping of unexplored areas, the characteristics and dynamics of the water column and the seabed in relation to sedimentary processes, circulation and distribution of ice.
The missions just concluded were made possible thanks to Nave's capabilities and specificity Alliance to operate in the polar regions, confirming the consolidated operational flexibility typical of the units of the Italian Navy.
Once this first task is completed, the ship will resume the execution of the hydro-oceanographic survey in the area surrounding the Island of Elba, functional to the geomorphological study of the seabed and the chemical-physical parameters of the water column as well as updating the published nautical charts. by the Hydrographic Institute of the Navy (IMM).
