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July 22, 2021 (Google Translation) – After having organized cooperation actions with the divers of the Lebanese Navy, the Building-base of clearing divers (BBPD) Pluto went to Albanian territorial waters. He was escorted by the Albanian patroller Oriku with whom he also carried out several maneuver exercises and tactical evolutions. Once docked, the detachment of demining divers (PLD) present on…
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March 25, 2021 (Google Translation) – On March 22, 2021, sailors from the tripartie mine hunter (CMT) Southern Cross conducted a counter-mining operation in the Brest Gully Front to neutralize a historic English world war II munition. Discovered on February 6, 2021 during the 60th Operation Damier, the ammunition is a British Mark XII bomb with a load weight of…
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September 15, 2020 (Google Translation) – Two German sea mines from World War II were destroyed yesterday and today by mine divers from Gdynia in the Gdańsk Bay. Meanwhile, the navy is slowly making its way to remove Tallboy, a gigantic bomb discovered at the bottom of the Świnoujście canal. It is already known that the operation will be carried…
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August 11, 2020 (Google Translation) – A Special Explosives Deactivation Group (GEDE) of the Navy’s Countermines Measures Divers Unit (UBMCM), a specialist in explosives deactivation, has recovered an anti-sonar bomber this morning in the vicinity of the Las Salinas beach in Roquetas de Mar. It was found on August 9, by a sport diver, near the shore of the beach…
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