IH talks with the Vice Admiral Sarmento Gouveia

IH Conversations: Vice Admiral Sarmento Gouveia recalls experiences as Director-General of the Hydrographic Institute

The Hydrographic Institute promoted, on July 25, another session to evoke the experiences experienced by all those at the service of hydrography, oceanography, navigation or other areas of the research of the sciences and techniques of the sea, lived or witnessed experiences quite rich from a human and professional point of view whose memory deserves to be preserved for generations to come.

Vice Admiral Sarmento Gouveia, former Director General of the Hydrographic Institute (IH), was the guest who, before an interested audience, shared the knowledge of curious episodes related to the recovery of Azinheira's facilities, from April 1993 to June 1994, and the process of obtaining in the United States of America the USNS ship Audacious that came to be renamed NRP D. Carlos I.

The state in which Azinheira was previously located, the planned delivery of these facilities to the Ministry of National Defense, the efforts made in its recovery to the Navy in exchange with the farm and facilities that the IH had in Amora and the effort to recover the infrastructure in record time were some of the aspects recalled by Vice Admiral Sarmento Gouveia. Similarly, it led those present to go on the long and difficult journey started in April 1994, at the International Hydrographic Conference that then took place in the United States of America, until February 28, 1997, when the NRP D. Carlos I was increased to the actual and attributed to the HI.