When I talked to Goldin in December, after the first phase of the pilot, he painted an unpleasant view of what seems to be in the not too distant future. Robotics equipped with cameras, powerful lights, sonar and updated Grabber systems may be used to choose more ammunitions that are now used and can work during the hour. Using remote vehicles, waste sites can also cope with different parties simultaneously, doing a fixed platform on the surface. And the masters professionals – skilled workers in short supply – may monitor most of the remote work in Hamburg instead of spending out of the sea.
This fact may still be a little remote, but with a few issues – including poor underwater and sometimes inadequate vision, which makes it work through live images – most of the technology in initial experiments is almost almost Work according to planning. Wolfgang Sichermann, a marine architect whose company, Seascity, has been monitored, said: “There is certainly a place to improve, but this concept is fundamentally working, and the idea that you can identify underwater and immediately. Save in the shipping boxes. ” Project on behalf of the German Ministry of Environment. “It is hoped that we will start designing and then building a float disposal facilities in the coming months and starting to burn the first explosives until 2026,” Sichrman says.
Hands?
When I visited a cold but obvious day last October, I talked to Michael Shepherd’s Munitions-Disposal Veterans-Disposal, who had spent a month on this platform near Hafcrugg, on the German coast, on the German coast. Carefully breaking the heavy heavy woods in the mud and sludge and sludge and packed with the 20mm balls strangled by Nazi Germany. On that day, they had previously examined about 5.8 tons of 20 mm away, taken by mechanical handhelds and underwater robots and then placed on the platform.
She has been working as an ammunition specialist for decades, which she began while serving in the German army. But he had never fully understood the amount of ammunition problem – or was previously thought to try to resolve the problem directly in a regular way.
“I’ve been doing it for 42 years and I have never had the opportunity to work on a project like this,” he told me. “What is actually developed and investigated here in the experimental project is worth it in the future in gold.”
Goldin, although optimistic about the results of the pilot, warns that there are still restrictions on how long technology can be done. The difficult, dangerous and sensitive work sometimes still requires human expertise, at least for a predictable future. “There are restrictions on doing a complete remote task of clearing on the sea floor. Certainly, diver and eod [explosive ordnance disposal] Sea bed professionals and on -site specialists, they never disappear, by no means. “
If the initial effort to successfully cleanse, we hope that this technology will find the ready-made buyers elsewhere-and not just around the Baltic. Well, in the 1970s, the military around the world turned to the oceans as domain areas for old ammunition.
But since there is no money in the burning of old air bombs, any boom in underwater ammunition depends on fundamental investments in environmental reform, which only rarely happens. “We can accelerate the work process and are definitely more efficient,” says Goldin. “The only point is that if you bring more resources to this area, it means that someone has to pay for it. Do we have a government in the future that is willing to pay? I doubt to say honest . ”
“I talked to Bahama’s ambassador two weeks ago,” says Cichreman. “He said,” You are more welcomed to come and erase all that the British collapsed in the 1970s, shortly before Bahama’s independence. “But they expect you to make money, not just this technology. That’s why you always have to see who is ready to finance it.” Sichman says, find the right financial backing, and many potential tasks There will be all over the world. “There is certainly no shortage of dumped ammunition.”
