These Robots Are Recovering Dumped Explosives From the Baltic Sea

When I talked to Guldin in December, after the pilot ended in the first phase, he had a fairly attention to what it would look like in the very distant future. Robotic crawlers decorated with cameras, strong lights, gold and upgraded grabber systems can now be used to lift merges more efficiently than used platform-based cranes and can handle it around the watch. With distant vehicles, dump sites can also be dealt with at once by multiple parties, which is impossible to do from a specific platform on the surface. And Ordnance Experts – Low supply workers can probably monitor most of the work to work remotely from Hamburg offices instead of spending the day at the sea.

This reality can still go away a bit, but despite a few problems – such as submerged water underneath visibility and sometimes insufficient lighting, which manages remotely through live images – worked fairly according to most technology plans in the preliminary examination. “Of course there is a place to improve, but the idea basically works and the idea that you can identify under water and save it directly to transportation craats,” Olfgang Sichman says a naval architect whose company is monitoring SCKP on behalf of the German Ministry of Environment. Project. It is expected that the floating disposal facility is expected to be designed and then created and then starting to shine the first explosives by 2026.

Hand off?

When I went to the barge on a sesteer on a clear day last October, I talked to the veteran munion-disposal expert Michael Shaffer, who already spent a month on the nearby Huffcrugs platform on the German coast, carefully opened heavy wood crack crackers with heavy wood crack crackers. And the slime crow and packed in the 20mm cannon round and churning by Nazi Germany. That morning, they had already tested about 5.8 ton 20-mm round, caught from the mechanical grabs and submerged robots and then fell on the platform.

Shaffler started working in the German military for decades. However, he never fully realized the amount of dumped munion – or before trying to address the problem directly in a systematic way.

He told me, “I have been in the job for 12 years now and I have never had the opportunity to work on this national project.” “What is actually developed and researched here in the pilot project is valuable for the weight of the future for the future”.

Guldin, though the same optimistic about the results of the pilot, warned that how much technology can be done from afar, there is still limitation. For solid, dangerous and sensitive work, sometimes the least expected future requires human skills. “The marine floor is prohibited from doing completely distant work on the exemption. , Of course, diver and eod [explosive ordnance disposal] Experts on the cephur and experts on the site, they will never go away, no way. “

If the initial clean-up attempt is proven successful, it is hoped that the technology can find prepared buyers elsewhere-and not just around Baltic. Well in the 1970sThe military forces around the world turned into an ocean as a dumping ground for the old war.

However, since there is no money in the burning of old aerial bombs, the disposal of submerged water war will depend on big investment in any boom environmental remedy, which rarely happens. “We can do the process faster and be more efficient, of course,” Guldin said. “The only thing is, if you bring more resources to the field, it means that someone has to pay for it. Do we have any government in the future who are willing to pay for it? I doubt, to speak the truth. “

“Two weeks ago I talked to the ambassador of Bahamas,” said Sicherman. “He said,” Shortly before the Bahamas became independent “, in the 70s, you are welcome to clear everything that the British sinking. ‘But they hope that you will bring money, not just technology. For that reason, you should always see who is ready for money. “But look for the right financial supporters and there will be a lot of potential work around the world.” Dumped ammunition must have no shortage. “