ROMA – The men and women of the 15th Wing, with helicopters and related flight crews from the Air Force, carry out the operations of Search and Rescue (SAR). And it carries out its work also thanks to the level of training of the crews and the characteristics of the machines supplied and the use of special equipment and techniques, which allow it to contribute to public utility activities such as the search for missing persons at sea or in the mountains, the emergency medical transport of life-threatening patients and rescue of seriously injured people.
Training for those who rescue in deep waters. It was an important moment to discover a preview of the construction site of PHI 12, the brand new futuristic structure designed by the architect. Emanuele Boaretto and which is currently under construction and will be built right next to Y-40 The Deep Joy. The PHI 12 – the new super-deep swimming pool on the Euganean Hills which is used to train rescuers in deep waters – will, in fact, be an international training center for military bodies and bodies specialized in search and recovery, respecting the confidentiality that these groups require for their tests. The fact that this structure will not have a roof and will be open to the sky makes it capable of hosting rescue simulations by rescuers at sea, allowing operators to get closer to the surface of the water by lowering themselves from above.
An important news. This will be an important innovation as, in collaboration with the Air Rescuers, the integration of further mobile structures suitable for the simulation of rescue operations from above is being studied. The new structure at the foot of the Euganean Hills has a cylinder with an exceptional diameter of 12 metres, never before proposed in deep structures and reaches 30 meters in depth. It too, like Y-40 The Deep Joy, will be filled using water of deep hyperthermal salsobromoiodic origin between 32° and 34°C: all characteristics studied for specific technical reasons, highlighted by the needs that have emerged over the years of work in Y-40, of which PHI 12 is the natural development and evolution.
An ideal environment in two submerged spaces. Two submerged spaces, PHI 12 e Y-40 The Deep Joy, in which the Air Force rescuers find an ideal environment for their training. Here, in addition to testing underwater rescue techniques, thanks to the pleasant temperatures of the thermal water even at great depths, they are able to bridge the gap that inevitably arises between a real rescue situation (at often prohibitive temperatures and sea conditions) and a training one: in fact, working at milder temperatures such as those of Y-40 and PHI12, but at greater depths, places rescuers in a high-load work situation but with equally training returns.
What is the 15th Wing. “The 15th wing is an operational department of the Air Force whose institutional task is that of search and rescue in the air. With its crews, throughout the year, 24 hours a day, it offers this service, both to the military and to the community as a whole. This operation born with Y-40 in 2017 allows our air rescuers, members of the 15th crew, to work on improving their rescue techniques by having facilities that are unique in Italy if not in the world”. At the command of this important sector of the Italian defense system is Colonel Andrea Giuseppe Savina.
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