SAN DIEGO -- Sailors in San Diego are receiving special training on how to detect a real world threat. 10News' Bob Lawrence reported.

One of the most lethal weapons used against U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan is the roadside bomb, but the U.S. Navy faces similar risks.

Since 2009, the Navy has relocated eight ships and scores of personnel to Naval Base Point Loma to centralize training for mine warfare.

While the movie "The Hurt Locker" depicted what it was like to locate and diffuse roadside bombs in Iraq, the task of Naval Mine Warfare is to identify the same threats -- except underwater.

The ships are joined by a state-of-the-art training facility that will be dedicated Friday morning.

Aside from training sailors how to find, disarm and make safe current underwater threats, crews must also find an estimated 1 million mines left over in the world's oceans since World War I.