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SETTANTAxOTTANTA: 1969. Pochi lo sanno ma in Friuli in piena guerra fredda si tenta l’esperimento Operazione Atlantide · 70 80

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  del portale. Siamo con il direttore Massimo Lualdi
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  che introduce l 'argomento odierno. Di cosa parliamo
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  oggi? Di fantascienza, o quasi. Trasagis è un
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  piccolo comune italiano in provincia di Udine.
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  Lì vicino c 'è il lago di Cavazzo, conosciuto
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  anche come Lago dei Tre Comuni, il più esteso
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  lago naturale del Friuli Venezia Giulia. Il lago
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  in questione è famoso in regione per le sue fredde
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  acque cristalline. surrounded by green, was the
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  object, and this is incredibly little known,
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  in 1969, near the landing of the first man on
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  the Moon, of a visionary scientific experiment
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  called Operation Atlantis, conducted in the middle
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  of the Cold War, under the supervision of politics
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  and the military. There we did a first geographical
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  research on the site, with immersions on the
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  site, when there was still nothing. Then, after
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  having recovered some containers that came to
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  make Then, as it is now, the escalation of the
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  conflict between the USA and the USSR was feared
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  in the direction of a nuclear conflict. The fears
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  linked to coup scenarios led to evaluate the
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  bizarre possibility of testing life in a underwater
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  city. So Luciano Meccarozzi, a politically -led
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  journalist on the right, who seven years later
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  would have become famous for having Three subacqueous
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  containers, four actually, because... One contained
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  the machines to breathe, in the sense that they
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  were compressors that took the air from the surface
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  and then distributed it to the other three containers
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  where we were. The Atlantis operation, presented
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  in January 1969, was based on the construction
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  of the first underwater city in the world, of
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  special containers and habitats that will allow
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  underwater life at an undetermined time to a
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  group of 12 divers. The target was to test in
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  a structured environment the possibility of being
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  human beings would have been able to carry out
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  subacqueous works living underwater for several
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  days, beating the times for the phases of compression
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  and decompression during immersion and immersion.
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  We were four containers, I remember mine was
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  called the cometopo because it was Colucci, Menegozzi,
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  Tolloi and Polese. Polese was the only girl,
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  Silvana Polese, who was part of the group. For
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  his operation in Atlantis, Mecarozzi obtained
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  from the region of Friuli, Venice and Giulia
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  a contribution of 20 million and the support
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  of some sponsors, even if the majority of the
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  funds needed were collected thanks to the self
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  -taxing of the participants, in large part already
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  members of the Centro Italiano Soccorso Grotte.
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  The 12 somozzatori called to participate in the
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  experiment were called Aquanauti, not supernamed,
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  in the documents they are just defined as such.
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  some influx, it was the time of stay behind,
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  or even that there was something behind, but
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  in fact it was officially born as a private thing,
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  a private initiative. The experimentation team
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  had to live for long periods within five cylindrical
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  modules with curious names such as Canetopo,
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  Alpha Tau and Drago II, specifically designed
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  for life at the bottom of the lake, at the same
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  time carrying out manual work to test the physical
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  parameters. The cylinders were held at a stable
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  depth, linked to steel cables and containers
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  made by Zavorra. We were underwater for about
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  a month, day more, day less. I remember that
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  to get out we spent hours decompressing, we changed
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  the bubbles. Outside there were already the storage
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  chambers and we spent an hour also inside there,
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  because there were no measurements that time,
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  there was no one who had been underwater for
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  a month, so we came out a bit calculating, making
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  calculations, but above all ... Each housing
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  module was equipped with a device to communicate
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  with the land through national telephone lines
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  and a closed -circuit camera system for monitoring
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  personnel. The Atlantis operation, apparently
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  of high scientific elevation, was actually conducted
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  with great proximity. To begin with, a minor,
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  a 17 -year -old girl and a hitchhiker were part
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  of the group, recruited by chance. While one
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  of the firefighters, it was later known, was
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  used to sleep with a side knife, perhaps to protect
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  himself from ... the spirits with whom he declared
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  to speak during the periods of immersion in the
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  modules. I don't say pleasant, because there
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  was a certain concern, but we weren't even too
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  worried, it was fine, we even had to read. Not
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  only, in the exits on the bottom of the lake,
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  the aquanauts, with the privilege of any safety
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  norm, frequently collected some of the numerous
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  bombs in explosions of the Second World War,
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  which lay on the bottom of the lake, bringing
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  them to the surface where they were made. The
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  Atlantis operation was divided into two phases
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  over two and a half years. The first, from the
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  summer of 1969, on August 3, was officially presented
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  to civil, military and religious authorities,
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  and the second in the course of 1971. The high
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  scientific superficiality with which the experiment
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  was conducted cataloged it among studies of little
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  relevance and marginal validity. Yet the idea
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  was suggestive, to build a underwater city on
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  the model of that in vogue in the 50s. I had
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  the impression that it was considered by us a
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  kind of goliard. Today, on the lake of Cavazzo,
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  no traces of the Atlantis operation have remained,
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  at least in evidence, because under the cylinders
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