Lipari ship: completed the deperming activity "in house" in Augusta

19/06/15

At the Naval Base in Augusta, 4 took place at 19 June, the deperming activity for the Lipari ship, with professional expertise exclusively within the Navy, under the coordination of the Degaussing Deperming Augusta Station of the Naval Support and Testing Center.

The deperming is the activity through which some components of the permanent magnetization of a naval unit without a degaussing system or a unit that has a permanent magnetization that can not be compensated exclusively through the degaussing are reduced.

This activity, particularly articulated and complex on the organizational and technical level, has been a challenge for several Navy Base Commands and Bodies in Augusta.

The close collaboration between the crew and all the actors involved was fundamental (Marisicilia, Marinarsen Augusta, Maristanav Augusta and Comsubin Nucleo SDAI), who put their men and means in the field, successfully achieving, for the first time, a deperming treatment in full autonomy.

In particular, the entire hull was wound with external electric cable solenoids, suitably positioned longitudinally and transversely to the unit which, powered by high intensity currents, generated by JDG-10 Pontoon, creates decompression cycles of the structure, until it reaches a magnetic imprint that is considered acceptable for the operational objectives required.