The Royal Australian Navy has deployed its Laser Airborne Depth Sounder (LADS) Flight to Invercargill in New Zealand, to undertake survey operations over Macquarie Island, a 34km long World Heritage listed island that lies approximately halfway between Australia and Antarctica. The aim of the survey is to improve knowledge of potential dangers to ships visiting the island, with a focus on the area surrounding the station itself.
Macquarie Island is part of Tasmania and hosts an Australian...
EMSA informed that the Spanish maritime safety agency SASEMAR is using its Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) in the southern province of Huelva, for identifying and monitoring oil spills, as well as for additional assistance during search and rescue missions.
The RPAS being used is a fixed wing, twin engine AR 5 – Evo, under contract with EMSA from the REACT consortium (Tekever/Collecte Localisation Service). Its capabilities include day and night flights, and it is equipped with...
https://safety4sea.com/spains-sasemar-uses-emsa-drones-for-maritime-surveillance/
EMSA has secured four contracts for maritime surveillance services based on remotely piloted aircraft systems. These contracts aims to improve maritime surveillance capabilities to European agencies and member states.
Namely, according to EMSA the contracts concerning the remotely piloted aircraft systems were signed because of the increased demand.
Firstly, EMSA signed a contract with CEIIA-Centro de Engenharia e Desenvolvimento on 27 September for long range-long endurance maritime surveillance....
https://safety4sea.com/emsa-to-improve-maritime-surveillance-using-drones/
At the 5th edition of Our Ocean conference, in Bali, the European Union announced 23 new commitments for better governance of the oceans and €300 million of EU-funded initiatives, which include projects to tackle plastic pollution, make blue economy more sustainable and improve research and marine surveillance. This contribution comes on top of the over €550 million committed by the EU in last year’s Our Ocean conference in Malta.
The state of our oceans calls for determined global action. With...
https://safety4sea.com/eu-commits-e300-million-for-clean-and-safe-oceans/
MPA Singapore issued a circular informing that the usage of remote inspection techniques can be accepted for the conduct of surveys onboard Singapore-Registered Ships. When permitted, remote inspection technique may be used to facilitate the required external and internal examinations.
The methods applied for remote inspection technique are to provide the survey results normally obtained for/by the Surveyor. The remote inspection techniques may comprise of the following:
https://safety4sea.com/mpa-singapore-accepts-remote-inspection-techniques-in-surveys/
India and France announced their plan to launch satellites aimed for maritime surveillance, as French space agency CNES chief Jean-Yves Le Gall informed. The satellites will focus on the Indian Ocean and they will constitute India’s largest space cooperation with any country.
The satellites will be monitoring sea traffic management, a CNES official noted, adding they will probably launch in about five years.
ISRO and CNES will now work together to design and develop techniques to monitor assets...
https://safety4sea.com/india-france-to-launch-satellites-for-maritime-surveillance/