From the Nakhodka to the Erika
Exchange of experience
in at sea response to offshore oil spills by passing ships.
Brest, France, Thursday 6th- Friday 7th July 2000.
Publication available for sale: Girin M., ed., 2000, Fom the Nakhodka to the Erika, Conference proceedings of Cedre, Brest, France, 162 pages.
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In the frame of a memorandum of understanding to co-operate in better responding to oil spills at sea by passing ships, the Ship Research Institute and Cedre jointly organised in Brest, on the 6th and 7th of July 2000, under the framework of the Japanese-French scientific co-operation, an exchange of experience seminar on at sea response to the Nakhodka and Erika oil spills. Interested professional parties having experience in the matter, from those spills or other spills of interest, were invited to join and participate in widening the scope of the seminar to a discussion on the international know-how in the matter. Because of time constraints, not all presentations made at the seminar were fully formatted for publication. They have been finalized, to the best of the available material, and they are made public through this document. Authors having provided presentation documents only may be contacted directly for further information.
Opening
addresses
p.
5: Mr. Paul Roncière, General Secretary of the Sea, France
p. 9: Rear-Admiral Naquet-Radiguet, Maritime Prefect of the
Atlantic, France
p. 13: Dr Susumu Yamagishi, Director, Ship Equipment and Marine Environment Division, SRI, Japan
p. 15: Dr Michel Girin, Director of Cedre, France Topic 1
Response to disabled tankers
p. 25: Lessons of the wreckage and the salvage attempts of the Nakhodka, by Mr. Takeshi Kihara, SRI (on behalf of Mr. Eisuke Kudo, Ship & Ocean Foundation)
p. 41: Lessons of the wreckage and the salvage attempts of the Erika, par Capt. Charles Claden, les Abeilles International
p. 61: The Japanese research project on disabled ships, by Dr Shoichi Hara, SRI
p. 75: Discussion: Can we better respond to disabled tankers risks? Moderated by Dr Shoichi Hara, SRI and Dr Michel Girin, Cedre Topic 2
Slicks monitoring and drift prevision
p. 77: Scientific approach to improve slicks monitoring using a fluorescence Lidar, by Dr Susumu Yamagishi, SRI
p. 87: Slicks drift prevision and public expectancy in the Erika incident, by M. Pierre Daniel, MétéoFrance
p. 95: Wrecks surveillance in the Erika incident, by M. Pierre Leca, Ingénieur, Marine nationale
p. 97: Discussion: Can we improve monitoring or modelling? Moderated by Dr Susumu Yamagishi, SRI and Mr. Christophe Rousseau, Cedre Topic 3
Oil recovery at sea
p. 99: Research and Development in Japan of large scale equipment to recover spilled oil in stormy weather by M.Yoshiharu Shigeiri, Association for Structural Improvement of the Shipbuilding Industry, Japan
p. 109: Offshore operations following the Erika oil spill, by M. Georges Peigné, Cedre
Topic 4
The second line of combat: organising oil recovery in front of the coastline
p. 119: The Nakhodka oil spill cleanup operation, by Dr Susumu Yamagishi, SRI, Japan (on behalf of Mr. Kuniaki Sasaki, Maritime Disaster Prevention Center, Japan)
p. 125: The second line of response at sea to the Erika spill by Mlle Anne Le Roux, Cedre
Topic 5
Monitoring and recovery of oil remaining in wrecks
p. 133: The Nakhodka experience: monitoring a deep sea wreck by Dr Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, SRI (on behalf of Mr. Eisuke Kudo, Ship & Ocean Foundation)
p. 135: Experience of pumping sunken wrecks in France: from the Tanio to the Erika by M. Pierre Guyonnet et M. Gérard Bocquillon, TotalFinaElf
p. 143: The stranding of MV Pallas off the german coast close to the isle of Amrum by Capt. Klaus Schroh, Federal Marine Pollution Control Unit, Germany Topic 6
On-going research projects
p. 147: Main research projects on oil recovery, by the Japanese Ministry of Transport, by Mr. Takeshi Kihara and Dr Shoichi Hara, SRI, Japan
p. 155: Improvement of performance of multi-purpose vessel, by Dr Shoichi Hara, Messrs Kenji Yamakawa, Kunihiro Hoshino, Kazuhiro Yukawa, SRI, Japan and Mr Hiroshi Kagemoto, University of Tokyo
p. 161: Financing future research for better environmental protection against oil spills by M. François Laurent, Ministère de la Recherche Closing addresses
p. 165: M. Pierre Maille, Chairman, Cedre
p. 167: M. Alessandro Barisich, Chef de la Division " Sécurité Civile ", Direction Générale XI, Commission européenne