Legal Aspects of Warfare in the Sea
Monika Krivickaite, Walther-Schücking-Institute
The presentation focuses on the legal implications of sea-dumped conventional and chemical warfare and treaties involved. Mehr →
MIREMAR - Lectures and all Presentations
Results of the International Conference on Minimizing Risks for the Environment in Marine Ammunition Removal in the Baltic and North Sea, Neumünster (D), 16th to 18th November 2010
Ammunition - Photo: Ingo Ludwichowski
Media Links of Conference Themes
introduction
Ammunition in the Baltic Sea
Gunnar Möller, COM Mine Warfare Data Center (C MWDC)
The More we know, the Worse it gets – on the Situation of Conventional Ammunition in the Baltic Sea Mehr →
DETONATION OF CONVENTIONAL AMMUNITION
Ammunition in the North Sea
Lodewijk de Waard, Royal NL Navy, Diving and Ordnance Disposal Group & René Dekeling, Defense Materiel Organisation & Department of Transportation, Public Works and Water Management, The Hague / NL
As a legacy of the First and Second World War, there are still large amounts of explosives present in the (Netherlands part) of the North Sea. An overview of present practice, scale of clearing operations and modus operandi will be given. Mehr →
Impact of Underwater Detonations
Sven Koschinski, Marine Zoologist
Blasting creates several risks to marine vertebrates. The immediate shock pulse can cause injury at considerable distance. Different sound velocities impacting on tissues of different densities can lead to laceration and rupture esp. in organs containing gas. Mehr →
Ammunition Dump Site „Heidkate“
Jens Sternheim, State Office for Civil Protection
In the in direct translation so called “state between the oceans” dump sites of World War II ammunition became part of the public interest as State of Schleswig-Holstein authorities has started to blast up to 30 out of approximately 140 World War II mines ... Mehr →
Bubble Curtains as a Protective Measure
Tanja Grießmann, Jörg Rustemeier & Raimund Rolfes
An integral research goal consists in developing noise mitigation concepts, which are physically effective, without disregarding the aspect of cost-efficiency. Mehr →
Damping of Shock Waves
Edgar Schmidtke, WTD71
Air bubbles in water are known to damp underwater sound. This is a well known and well understood effect. Experiments will be presented that were carried out in the last three years. Mehr →
Munitions Clearance in Gulf of Finland
Tiina Salonen & Simon Bonnell
More than 40,000 survey line kilometres have been sailed by Nord Stream research vessels to conduct surveys and underwater investigations. The goal was to find the best possible route, avoiding dangerous objects and minimizing impact on the environment. Mehr →
DETECtion
Electro-Acoustical Survey
Luigi Alcaro, ISPRA , Rome /Italy
ISPRA is endorsed by Italian Ministry of Environment to carry out a survey of the main Apulian harbour to detect the Unexploded Ordnance lying on the seabed. Mehr →
Sediment Information
Thomas Wever, Koblenz / Germany
After WWs I / II ammunition was dumped at sea. Insufficient logs of positions and dumping en route prohibit a targeted removal and/or neutralisation. Instead, ammunition is often detected accidently. Mehr →
Locating Historic Dumping Sites
Uwe Wichert, Kiel / Germany
With new, modern systems as Sonar, GPS and Radar, electronic sea charts, and the problems between old and modern Systems, we works on a solution for real correct positions about the ammunition Mehr →
DISPERSION OF CRITICAL SUBSTANCES
Substances from Dumped Ammunition
Frederic Francken, Kevin Ruddick & Patrick Roose
After World War I large amounts of munitions were left behind on Belgian territory. In 1919 the Belgian government decided to dump the ammunition on a shallow submerged sand flat. Mehr →
Ecotoxicology in a Coral Ecosystem
James Barton, Norfolk / USA
Research conducted by Underwater Ordnance Recovery at the US Navy’s bombing range on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, sought to determine whether there was an elevated radiological signature associated with an area shipwreck in the South Pacific Mehr →
Why Use STA® (Sediment Trend Analysis)?
Patrick McLaren, GeoSea Consulting (Canada) Ltd.
UXO and contaminants are inextricably linked to their surrounding sediments. Processes affecting sediment transport may bury or expose UXO. The fate of associated contaminants is entirely dependent on natural behaviour of the sediments. Mehr →
RECOVERY OF CONVENTIONAL AMMUNITION
Analysis of a Munition-like Item
Christel Meert & Francis Kerckhof
In 2010, unknown objects were found in a fish basket on the quay of the fishing harbour of Oostende. They were collected at the Belgian Marine Environmental Management Section in Ostend... Mehr →
Recovery of Marine Ammunition
Franz Eder, ANT AG, Lübeck / Germany
The speech describes the developments since the last conference in October 2007 related to a master plan for the ecologically sound defusing of unexploded bombs and grenades found under water in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. Mehr →
Photolytic Treatment of Explosives
Fritz Pfeiffer, Marburg / Germany
Energetic Substances can be destroyed by photolysis. By selecting the appropriate chemical environment and careful analytical control of the degradation processes involved, complete destruction of dilute nitro aromatics can be achieved. Mehr →
Selecting Munitions Recovery Technology
Erika Brandenburg, Jacksonville / USA
The Department of Defense (DoD) recognizes that under certain circumstances it may be necessary to locate and respond to underwater munitions. The DoD developed a list of parameters for evaluation of munitions response technologies. Mehr →
CHEMICAL WARFARE
Aspects of Chemical Warfare
John Hart, Solna /Sweden
Past and current methods of the disposal of chemical warfare agents (principally on land) and the related political and legal context are discussed. Mehr →
Sea Dumped Chemical Weapons
Jonathan Mills, OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands
The Technical Secretariat (TS) of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is vested with a general mandate to provide assistance and capacity-building support to States Parties to enable them to meet their obligations under the CWC. Mehr →
Destruction of Old Chemical Weapons
Thomas Stock, Dynasafe Germany GmbH, Mülheim / Germany
The presentation reviews individual States Parties OCW destruction programs regarding efficiency, technology challenges and future requirements. Mehr →
Environmental Effects
Luigi Alcaro, ISPRA, Rome /Italy
The presentation shows the main results obtained within the REDCOD project (Research on Environmental Damage caused by Chemical Ordnance Dumped at sea) co-financed by the European Commission. Mehr →
Microbial responses to chemical weapons
Nadezda Medvedeva, St. Petersburg / Russia
The method for microbial indication of chemical weapon dump sites has been developed. Mehr →
Clean-up of the Bornholm CW Dumpsite
Vadim T. Paka, Kaliningrad, Russia
Based on results of the EC funded project MERCW (http://mercw.org), it became clear that a catastrophic scenario of further behaviour of the buried chemical munitions (CW) is unlikely. The question is what to do with the remaining CW. Mehr →
Evaluating Sea Disposed Munitions
Margo Edwards, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
The U.S. Army funded the HUMMA Project to assess the location of, and potential risk to human health posed by, sea disposed munitions located south of Pearl Harbor. These munitions have been exposed to undersea erosion since World War II. Mehr →
POLITICAL DIMENSION
Approach to Underwater Munitions
Terrance P. Long, Dialogues on Underwater Munitions, USA
Mr. Long discussed his own experiences in his native land of Canada and some of the ongoing international activities on underwater munitions. Mehr →
OSPAR Commission
Sebastian Unger, OSPAR Commission, London / UK
To reduce risk by dumped munitions, the OSPAR Commission has adopted a framework for the development of national guidelines on how to deal with encounters with munitions. Mehr →
Activities of the Helsinki Commission
Minna Pyhälä, HELCOM, Helsinki / Finland
HELCOM continues to annually collect and report information submitted by the HELCOM countries on the numbers of incidents reported where chemical munitions have been caught by fishermen. Mehr →
Marine Ammunition in the Sight of NGOs
Kim Cornelius Detloff, NABU, Berlin / Germany
The presentation is outlining NGO’s sight on this invisible and often unknown threat, considering cumulative effects and interactions with other human pressures. It presents latest legal developments with respect to ocean protection. Mehr →
