Submarine officers from the 3rd C.R.F. (Coordinator Rescue Forces) course visiting the Satellite Station

  • Published on: 01/07/2022
  • Category: News
Submarine officers from the 3rd C.R.F. (Coordinator Rescue Forces) course visiting the Satellite Station

This morning, the Italian COSPAS-SARSAT Satellite Station in Bari received a visit from submarine officers attending the 3rd C.R.F. (Coordinator Rescue Forces) course, organized by the training school of the Navy's Submarine Flotilla Command in Taranto, as part of the training activity  of the I.S.M.E.R.L.O. (International Submarine Escape and Rescue Liaison Office).

The course, the only one of its kind in NATO, responds to an important need of the international community to be ready when called upon to carry out a rescue operation to a disaster submarine in a situation of absolute technical, psychological and media emergency.


 

The Officers, of Italian and foreign nationality (United States, Canada, Great Britain, Greece, the Netherlands, South Africa, Turkey, Norway and Australia), accompanied by Frigate Captain Andrea Molaschi, current Head of I.S.M.E.R.L.O., were welcomed by a video message from Rear Admiral Vincenzo Leone, Maritime Director of Puglia and Ionian Basilicata. 



At the end of the meeting, during which informational content inherent to the international COSPAS-SARSAT system and the operational management of the Italian M.C.C. (Mission Control Centre) was provided, the Director of the Satellite Station, Frigate Captain Angelo Maggio, had the pleasure of presenting Commander Molaschi with the institutional Crest, which, bearing the motto "DE CAELO SPES," reiterates the operational but also psychological importance of the latest satellite technologies in support of search and rescue operations.