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Technologies for Search, Assistance and Rescue Seminar

Le Quartz - Brest, France - 18-19 October 2004

Welcome

Philippe Marchand - Ifremer

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Ifremer’s Missions

Ifremer’s missions are to conduct and promote basic and applied research, make expert assessment reports and take action for technological and industrial development intended to :

• identify, evaluate and enhance marine resources and enable their substainable exploitation,

• improve methods of monitoring, forecasting trends, protecting and enhancing marine and coastal environments,

• encourage the economic development of maritime activities.

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Ifremer’s Activities

Coastal environment management

Marine living resource management

Ocean research

Engineering and marine technology

Managing ocean research vessels and tools for underwater intervention

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Key figures An annual budget of nearly 150 million euros

1,385 salaried employees at Ifremer and 320 salaried staff at Genavir (shipowner)

5 centres : Brest, Manche/mer du Nord, Méditerranée, Nantes, Tahiti

72 laboratories or research departments, located in 24 stations along the coastline of metropolitan France and in the French overseas administrative departments and territories

An entire range of facilities for aquaculture production and experimentation

7 vessels (4 of them blue ocean), 1 manned submersible, 1 remotely-operated deep sea (- 6,000 m) vehicle

A full set of test facilities

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Technologies for search, assistance and rescue at sea

The aim of the seminar is to exchange information about technological needs and solutions to prevent incidents at sea from turning into major disasters, to discuss on-going projects, and to pool our efforts in order to build synergies between relevant stakeholders and nations and to promote the dissemination of means of protection throughout the maritime industry.

SATELLITE OBSERVATION

MODELLING ASSIMILATION

JASON

MERCATOR

Operational Oceanography

IN SITU OBSERVATION

CORIOLIS Ifremer, SHOM, CNES, CNRS, Meteo-France, IRD, IPEV

Materials

Metocean Fluid/structure interactions

Offshore Activities

Soil characterisation

Material behaviour

Underwater vehicles

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Metocean

Constitution of sea conditions climatologies by merging the best of various sources of data

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Metocean

Modeling of the process of sea states history, at a location or along a coast or a route, for the planning of marine operations for instance.

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The Wreck

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Oil leakage, sticker (20 cm)

Mapping

Plugging

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Programme

2 days organized in several sessions per day2 days organized in several sessions per day.

Day 1 (2004/10/18)Status of politics, organisations, models and technical tools running over the world to face the Search, Assistance and Rescue problems.

Day 2 (2004/10/19)Prospectives (methods, developments), frameworks and collaborations to consider to answer the Search, Assistance and Rescue challenges.

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Acknowledgements Sponsors

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AcknowledgementsTechnical program organizers