When I talked to GULDIN in December, after the first stage of the pilot, he sketched a large vision about what this work looks like in this far. The robot crawler equipped with a camera, powerful light, sonar, upgraved glover system is used to pick up ammunition more efficiently than the currently used platform -based crane and operates 24 hours a day. There is a possibility. With a remote vehicle, dump sites can be tackled from multiple aspects at once. This cannot be done from the fixed platform on the surface. And weapons experts (short of workers) were able to supervise most of the work from Hamburg’s office, rather than spending a few days in the sea.
The reality may be a little far away, but despite some problems, the visibility in the water is low, and sometimes it works remotely through live images, such as inadequate lighting. Ta. Most of the technologies in the initial test worked as planned. “There is certainly room for improvement, but there is basically the idea that the concept can function and it can be stored immediately in the water transport wood work,” said Seascape, the navy architect directed by Seascape. Sichermann says. Project on behalf of the Ministry of the Environment in Germany. Hope is to start the construction of a floating discarding facility in the next few months, and to start incineration of the first explosion someday in 2026.
Handsoff?
When I visited Seatera Virge on a clear but clear day last October, I talked to a veteran ammunition expert Michael Cheffler. It is wrapped in mud and slime, and is packed with round luggage of 20 mm cannon tracked by Nazi Germany. That morning, they had already inspected about 5.8 tons of 20 mm rounds, grabbed from mud with mechanical glover and underwater robots, and were mounted on the platform.
Chephuler has been working as an expert who protects ammunition for decades and has started working while working for the German army. However, he had imagined that he had not fully grasped the degree of the abandoned ammunition problem, or that he would work directly on the problem in a systematic way.
“I’ve been working for 42 years now, but I have never had the opportunity to work on such a project,” he said. “What is actually developed and studied in the pilot project here is worth the weight of future gold.”
GULDIN warns that the results of the pilots are also optimistic, but there are still restrictions on the amount of technology and remotely remotely. Difficult, dangerous, delicate work can still require practical human expertise in at least in the near future. “There is a limit to doing a complete clearance on the sea floor. Diver and EOD (explosive weapons disposal) are experts and experts on the seabed, and they never leave. “
If the first cleanup efforts are successful, we hope that technology is ready not only around the Baltic Sea but also elsewhere. In the 1970s, the army around the world turned into the ocean as an old ammunition dump.
However, the boom of underwater ammunition disposal depends on the main investment in environmental repair, because there is no money to make money when incinerating an old aerial bomb. “We were able to speed up the process and definitely be more efficient,” GULDIN says. “The only thing is that if you bring more resources into the field, it means that someone has to pay it. We will introduce a government that will be happy to pay it in the future. To be honest, I have a question.
“Two weeks ago, I talked to the Bahama ambassador,” says Sichaman. “He said,” You welcome you to clean all of the British sinking in the 70’s just before Bahama became independent, “but they are not only technology but also money. I hope to bring it. Therefore, you need to check who is ready to provide it. However, please find an appropriate financial supporter. Sichaman says there are many potential jobs around the world. “Certainly, there is no shortage of amadial ammunition.”
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