The Corps of the Port Captaincies – Coast Guard () is the coast guard of Italy and is part of the Italian Navy under the control of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. Its head office is in Rome. Missions The missions of the Italian Coast Guard include: Search and rescue Maritime law enforcement Protection of marine resources Safety of navigation Fisheries protection and regulation History The Italian Coast Guard is the operational SAR branch of the or Corps of the Port Captaincies, which was organized first by royal decree on 20 July 1865. It was reorganized as part of the of Kingdom of Italy in 1915 (since 1946 as ) and on 8 June 1989, redesignated as . Structure and organization Structure The Corps of the Port Captaincies – Coast Guard is structured as follows: 1 MARICOGECAP – Port Captaincies General Headquarters – , which functions of Italian Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (IMRCC) 15 DIREZIOMARE – Maritime Directorates – , which are at the head of as many Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre Commands (MRSC) 55 COMPAMARE – Maritime Departments / Port Captaincies – 51 CIRCOMARE – Maritime District Offices – 126 LOCAMARE – Local Maritime Offices – 61 DELEMARE – Maritime Delegations or Beach Delegations – or Moreover, the following services are also part of the Corps: the air-sea component; the Cospas-Sarsat satellite station of Bari (in synergy with the Civil Protection Department); the five Underwater Operators Groups (San Benedetto del Tronto, Naples, Messina, Cagliari and Genoa); the two Nautical Teams (Lake Garda – Salò; Lake Maggiore – Verbania) the Marine Environmental Division of the Port Captaincies by the Ministry for the Environment and Protection of the Territory; the group by the General Fishery Direction of the Ministry of Agriculture. The coast guard also has an air wing. Tasks The Corps of the Port Captaincies – Coast Guard is a Corps of the Italian Navy that has tasks and functions connected mostly to the civil use of the sea and with functional dependence of various ministries that avail themselves on their work: first of all the (Ministry for Transports) which has "inherited" in 1994, from the Ministry of the Merchant Navy, the major part of the functions connected to the use of the sea and the connected activities with the commercial and pleasure navigation an on whose budget weighs the costs for the running of the corps. The principal tasks