When he talked with GULDIN in December, after the first stage of the pilot, he sketched a rough vision of how this work would look in the future. Robot crawlers with cameras, powerful lighting, sonar and upgraded grabber systems can be used to pick up ammunition more efficiently than the current platform -based crane and can work 24 hours. Using a remote vehicle, you can also solve the dump site in many ways at once. It is impossible on the fixed platform on the surface. And the lack of supply (experienced workers) will probably overlook most of the work in Hamburg’s office without spending a few days from the sea.
The reality can still be a bit out of the way, but despite some problems with poor underwater visibility, it is difficult to operate remotely through vivid images despite some problems such as inappropriate lighting. Most of the techniques of the initial test worked almost as planned. “There is clearly improvement, but the concept is fundamentally effective, the idea is to identify underwater and store it directly in traffic box works,” the company, the company, is on behalf of the Ministry of Environment. Sicheermann said it would be hope to start designing disposal facilities in the next few months and to start incinerating the first explosives in 2026.
Remove your hands?
When I visited Citter La Pants on a chilly but clear day in October, I talked with Michael Super, a veteran ammunition expert who had already spent a month on a month on the Happkrug on the German coast. . The box is filled with a 20mm cannon round, whose Nazi Germany is wet with mud and mucus. That morning, they had already inspected about 5.8 tons of 20mm round, caught in Munch with mechanical grabber and underwater robots, and boarded the platform.
SCHEFFLER has started working in the German army for decades of Cunitions Disposal Expert. But he did not fully grasp the degree of dumped ammunition problem. Or I previously imagined that I tried to solve the problem directly in a systematic way.
“I have been working for 42 years and have no chance to do this project,” he said. “What is actually being developed and studied in a pilot project is worth the gold for the future.”
Guldin warns that the result of the pilot is optimistic and optimistic, but there is still a limit to the amount that can be performed remotely with technology. Difficult, dangerous and sensitive work sometimes requires practical knowledge of practical human beings in a near future. “There is a limit to performing a complete remote clear from the seabed. Definitely, diver and EOD [explosive ordnance disposal] Experts from the seabed and experts will never disappear in the field. ”
If the initial cleaning effort is successfully proved, this technology will be able to find the buyer prepared anywhere else. In the 1970sForces around the world headed to the sea with a dumping site for old ammunition.
However, because there is no money in incineration of older air bombs, the boom in underwater ammunition depends on the main investment in environmental treatment, and it rarely occurs. “We can speed up the process and be more efficient. “The only thing is that if you bring more resources to the field, someone must pay it. Are we willing to pay the government in the future? To be honest, I have doubts. ”
Sichermann said, “I have a conversation with Ambassador Bahama two weeks ago. “He welcomes you to clean and clean everything the British sank in the 70s just before the Bahama’s independence.” But they look forward to bringing money as well as technology. For this reason, you should always know who is ready to raise funds. ” But if you find the right financial patron, Sichermann says there will be a lot of potential work around the world. “There is no deficiency of speculative ammunition.”
