The students of the first class of the Naval Academy, who left last July 14 from the port of Livorno for the Education Campaign 2015, following a tradition handed down by those who preceded them over the years, gave their course their name. During the stop at La Maddalena the students, who are carrying out the education campaign divided into the offshore module (Palinuro ship and minor sailing ships) and the coastal module (at Mariscuola La Maddalena), met on board the Palinuro to choose the name by which to name your course, to elaborate the flag, the motto and the composition of the scream of the course and, only when everything has been decided, the students have climbed on the yards of the ship to urge its name: ' MIZAR '.
The inspiration for the search for the name came from the celestial vault, in fact Mizar is the name of the second star of the handle of the coast of the Ursa Major, and together with the star Alcor, it constitutes the most famous double system of the sky.
In Mizar and Alcor mythology they are represented respectively by a tiger and a white lion charged with pulling the chariot of the goddess of hope Eir into the skies. According to another mythological version they are two twin brothers separated at birth, from the sky of Asgard, whose fate is inextricably linked by their brotherly love, to the point of being reborn together in the form of stars.
Aspire to higher things ... like the stars. This is not a simple hope for the future officers of Marina, but an exhortation to the constant and more and more intense commitment, to serve and defend her Nation in the future.
'Cum impetu et honore in historiae mare' (with impetus and honor in the sea of history), is the motto of the Mizar course, where the sea of history is the Mediterranean Sea, on which each student had his 'baptism of the sea' , and with which each Marina official indissolubly links his life to the service of the country.
Stern wind and calm sea at the Mizar course.
