MARINE Maritime Incident Research and Innovation Network

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MARINEMaritime Incident Research and Innovation
Network

• Project Overview
• Fernando Lobo Pereira
• MARINE Project Coordinator

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Maritime Incidents

• Man-made and natural maritime incidents include
  artificial outfalls, artificial and natural
  biologic perturbations, marine activities and
  events to weaken security-related events or
  activities with negative marine impact, geologic
  events (underwater landslides, tsunamis, etc.).
• In order to encompass this wider scope, the
  MARINE project envisages an open and flexible
  networking framework which has the potential to
  integrate an extremely diversified range of
  institutions pertinent to environmental, social,
  research, educational, civil defense, and
  military issues.

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• November 2002 the tank ship Prestige-Nassau
  spilled ca 10,000 tons of oil off the coast of
  Galicia during several days.
• February 1996 the Sea Empress spilled ca 72,000
  tons of crude oil near Milford Haven in Wales.
• January 1993 The Braer Tanker ran aground
  spilling 85,000 tons of crude oil off the
  Shetland Islands.
• December 1992 A tank ship called Aegean Sea
  spilled 80,000 tons of crude near the port of La
  Coruña in Spain.
• May 1991 The ABT Summer leaked oil after an
  explosion off Angola spilling 260,000 tonnes.
• April 1991 The Cypriot oil tanker Haven spilled
  more than 50,000 tons of oil off Genoa in Italy.
• January 1991 Iraq released about 460 million
  gallons of crude oil into the Persian Gulf during
  the Gulf War.
• March 1989 The Exxon Valdez is grounded and
  spilled 38,800 tons of crude oil into Prince
  William Sound in Alaska, the worst spill in US
  history.
• August 1983 Fire broke out on the Castillo de
  Bellver and its cargo of 252,000 tones of oil
  burnt.
• 1979 The Atlantic Empress spilled 160,000 tons
  off Tobago.
• 1978 Wrecked tanker Amoco Cadiz spilled 220,000
  tons gallons off the Brittany coast.
• March 1967 The Torrey Canyon spilled 119,000
  tons of crude oil off the Isles of Scilly in the
  UK.

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Prestige
Problem Data collection to feed oceanographic
prediction models
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Prestige disaster

• 3D data time evolution is required
• air, ocean, land

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Maritime Incident Stages

• Decide what to do (actions to perform, data to be
  collected) and how to do it (which technologies
  and systems to use)

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MARINE Project

• Create and foster an Excellence Network to
  promote the development and transfer of knowledge
  and innovation in the field of maritime incidents
  within the context of maritime security and of
  the protection of marine habitats
• Demonstrate and transfer knowledge related to the
  application of emergent technologies in this
  domain.
• Focus on systems based on autonomous (air,
  surface, underwater) vehicles, networked devices,
  remote sensing, and bioremediation.

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Partners

• FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do
  Porto (PT)
• APDL - Administração dos Portos do Douro e
  Leixões, SA (PT)
• UC - Instituto de Estudios Maritimos (SP)
• FUAC - Fundácion Universidad da Coruña (SP)
• ENSIETA École Nationale Supérieure dIngénieurs
  (FR)
• BP - Brest Pilotage (FR)
• UL - University of Limerick (IE)
• DHV - DHV Tecnopor Consultores Técnicos, Lda
  (PT)
• INOVA - INOVAMAIS, SA Serviços de
  Consultadoria em Inovação Tecnológica (PT)

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Vision