Type of exercise
Drill
Action tested
Equipment deployment
Communication
Modelling
Type of incident
No scenario
Organisation
CCS Fisterra, Spanish Maritime Safety Agency (SASEMAR)
NW coast off Galicia, Spain
The objectives of this exercise were to release and follow up of drifting buoy using ARCOPOL modelling system and test communication by using the ARCOPOL viewer system.
Marine/coastal environments
Local
Spanish
Exercises documentation
EXERCISES SASEMAR
Report
SASEMAR conducted several exercises where a buoy was released and SAR team had to look for it. INTECMAR collaborated with SASEMAR launching drifters and simulated their tracks using ARCOPOL modelling system. All the information was transmitted in real time to SASEMAR using the ARCOPOL viewer system.
ARCOPOLplatform
2015
Spanish