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Six submarine vehicles, two aerial and one surface, all autonomous and unmanned, form the fleet of drones that will test coordinated, from Monday and throughout the week, how to detect underwater oil spills in Cartagena waters.
The simulacrum is the first to carry out the extended European project Underwater Robotics Ready for Oil Spill (e-UReady4OS), led by the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT).
The fleet will have its base of operations in the ship of Salvamento Marítimo Clara Campomar, that leaves Monday from the Port of Cartagena with investigators of eight countries on board.
This is the largest exercise performed in Spain of these characteristics for non-military purposes.
The project, co-financed with € 600,000 by the Directorate General of European Civil Protection, aims to establish a protocol and list "a fleet of intelligent, rapid response vehicles trained in the detection of oil spills at sea", explains Javier Gilabert, co-director Of the Laboratory of Submarine Vehicles of the UPCT and coordinator of the project.
The entities participating in the project, in addition to the UPCT and Salvamento Marítimo, are the University of the Balearic Islands, the University of Girona, the University of Porto, the University of Zagreb, the Technological University of Tallinn, the Science and Technology University of Norway, the Cyprus, the Coast Guard of Ireland and the Scottish Marine Science Association.
The original UReady4OS project, which also led the UPCT, already held a drill in Cartagena waters in 2015 and then another in Zagreb.
An essay is also scheduled in Ireland for 2018.
Source: UPCT
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