New Delhi, May 12 -- Our experience on board began by meeting the Commander of the Submarine Flotilla, Navy Captain Luigi Zefferino, who informed us that the Taranto base (where the Command is located) hosts 6 of the Navy's 8 submarines (4 diesel electric units of the Sauro class and 4 Air Independent Propulsion units of the Todaro class), while the other two are based in Augusta. As Zefferino explained, "The submarine flotilla is organised into a logistics department, a technical department, an administrative department and a training centre that we traditionally call the 'submarine school.' Even the word we use for our boats in Italian is linked to tradition, but in practice they are fully submarines: a 'sommergibile' is mainly designed t...