naval exercise taking place off the coast of Alicante has recovered an old sea mine in waters off the Isla de Tabarca

naval exercise taking place off the coast of Alicante has recovered an old sea mine in waters off the Isla de Tabarca. The explosive device was identified as Italian and was confirmed to be inert,

It was found by the French minesweeper, the Orion, on April 29, which has been taking part in the ‘Spanish Minex-11’ manoeuvres, which is a multinational exercise for training in mine warfare which takes place annually. It’s organised by the Spanish Navy and involves boats from NATO and the European Maritime Force Euromarfor.

The manoeuvres by ships from Spain, Portugal, Poland, Germany and France involved tracking and making safe fake mines which had been supposedly planted by terrorists to disrupt maritime traffic.