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It has the code name 'ATLANTIC POLEX.PT 2023' and aims to provide the competent authorities of Madeira Island with the appropriate training in order to "ensure an efficient and effective response to occurrences of pollution at sea by oil or other hazardous substances".
The exercises to combat ocean pollution, is being promoted by the Directorate of Combating Pollution of the Sea of the National Maritime Authority and will take place on May 12, 2023, in Madeira Island.
The training action will take place "in open sea and in the Caniçal coastal area", east of Madeira Island, in a place where "there is an oil terminal and a commercial port with significant activity, as well as a marina and an aquaculture area", says the National Maritime Authority (AMN).
The "Live Exercise - LIVEX", takes place on May 12, but before, tomorrow May 11, 2023, takes place the seminar "Preservation of the marine environment", where "issues related to pollution of the marine environment and presentation of the exercise" will be addressed.
Exercise Scenarios
The exercises will have "several scenarios" and all of them will be part of the "simulation of an explosion of a tanker" that "was unloading fuel", says the AMN. This accident (drill) will result in "an active fire and a hole in the hull spilling fuel oil" and will result in "an injured person on board and a shipwrecked person being thrown overboard". In relation to the product spilled by the ship that will pollute the marine terminal of CLCM, this will "drift to the port of Caniçal, the beach of Ribeira de Natal and Abra Bay," also refers the Maritime Authority. Later, and offshore, the scenario of the drill will pose the challenge to authorities to prevent the "pollution patches" that will drift "towards the protected area of the Desertas".
Resources involved
Several resources will be involved for these exercises, among them, "ships and boats to combat sea pollution; aerial means capable of identifying and tracking the pollutant; retrievers, barriers, portable tanks, light equipment for cleaning beaches; heavy and light vehicles, tractors and personal protective equipment," says the same source.
