The Blue Resources Team and Wild Life Research and Conservation Trust along with Tokyo Cement (Lanka) Plc, conducted a coral reef surveying method training workshop and coral planting programme for SL Navy Divers at the Coral Cove, Naval Base, Trincomalee.

Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy, Vice Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne met with the senior military officials at the Pentagon on Monday (26).

The Sri Lanka Navy assisted in the repatriation of 4 Indian fishermen released from Sri Lankan custody this morning (27).

Implementing yet another community service programme of the Sri Lanka Navy, a Reverse Osmosis (RO) plant was installed in the school premises of Sri Siddhartha Central College in Eppawala, Anuradhapura, considering the intolerable levels of hardship faced by the students of the school and residents in the area. Accordingly the newly installed RO system was declared open by Commander North Central Naval Area, Commodore Merril Wickramasinghe today (26).

Naval personnel attached to the Naval Deployment Vettalakerni in the Northern Naval Command, and Maradankerni Police personal seized 89 kg of Kerala Cannabis, packed in 4 separate packages and hidden in the general area of Maradankerni Today (26).

A donation of medical equipment for the use of Navy’s Ambulance Watercraft and Delft Divisional Hospital was made at the naval base SLNS Wasaba located in the Delft Island on 21st September 2016.

On receipt of intelligence, a group of naval personnel attached to SLNS Gotabaya in Mullaitivu belonging to the Eastern Naval Command in coordination with Mulathivu Police arrested 77.5 kg of Kerala Cannabis while being transferred in a three-wheeler in the coastal area of Ambalampokkane in Pudukurippu yesterday (23).

As part of the Sri Lanka Navy’s community service programmes carried out with the intention of preventing Chronic Interstitial Nephritis in Agricultural Communities (CINAC), a Reverse Osmosis system was installed at the premises of Hambegamuwa Junior School in Monaragala for the use of the school children and general public in the area.

The Sri Lanka Navy Sailing Pool recorded a number of victories at the Sailing Regatta organized by Colombo Motor Yacht Club at the Bolgoda Lake on 18th September 2016.

Naval personnel attached to SLNS Gokanna located in Kinniya in the Eastern Naval Command arrested 14 local fishermen who engaged in illegal fishing activities in the sea area off Upparu yesterday (22).