Yesterday Ship Alliance it crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, returning to the Mediterranean Sea after three months of operations in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean.
18 May 2017, Ship from La Spezia Alliance he has conducted activities of significant scientific importance, both for NATO and for the Navy.
North Recognized Enviromental Picture, Dynamic Mongoose e High North 17 are the names of the operations in which the Italian ship took part: the first, conducted with the aim of characterizing the maritime environment of the North Atlantic Ocean, the second, an anti-submarine exercise conducted following the integration with the Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1), in order to evaluate the tactical use of modern "Maritime Unmanned System for ASW" and finally High North 17, the marine geophysics and oceanography campaign of the Hydrographic Institute of the Navy carried out in the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean.
Three months of intense activity that brought Nave Alliance where no Navy ship had arrived before: 89 years after the historic expedition of Umberto Nobile and the dirigible Italy, the Navy returned to the North Pole, reaching the latitude of 76 ° 31.2 'N, for carrying out integrated studies of the seabed and the subgrade, the water column, sea currents and much more, to allow to reveal the hidden secrets of still unexplored areas of the world and to shed light on climate change on our planet.
For the first time in history, a Navy ship was housed in the port of Aberdeen (Scotland), one of the main nodes of maritime traffic in northern Europe, and in the port of Tromso (Norway), the city from which ships set sail historically leading expeditions to the North Pole.
After traveling some 12.000 miles - along routes that took Alliance ship to cross the historic fjord where the German battleship Tirpiz sank on November 12, 1944, following the German invasion of Norway, and sailed across the sea area between Orkney and Shetland battled by British ships during the 1st and 2nd World Wars, to reach the famous naval base of Scapa Flow - Ship Alliance yesterday returned to the more familiar waters of the Mediterranean, and heads towards the Gulf of La Spezia where she will arrive on 12 August.
