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Jorma Rytkönen Finnish Environment Institute

Helcom Submerged

Status of the Chapter 3 ” Wrecks”

HELCOM Submerged 12-14 April 2016 Tallinn Estonia

Photo: Juha Flinkman

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Contents

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• Gothenburg meeting
• utcome
• Response outcome
• Draft Chapter of Chapter

Wrecks - item 2.3.

• Data existing
• Data missing
• Information by

participants

• How to Proceed ?

• the Third Meeting of SUBMERGED focused on the chapter
• n wrecks of the submerged hazardous objects

assessment.

• the conference Wrecks of the World III: Shipwreck risk

assessment was held in Gothenburg on 12-13 October 2015

• Meeting agreed that the Secretariat could take over the lead

regarding the dumped waste chapter – draft chapter of the dumped waste and lost cargo was accepted as a basis

• Presentations by Dagmar Etkin and Lisa Symons /NOAA

○ Mapping wrecks , categorising wrecks to main types, sensitivity of the environment around wreck; socio-economic sensitivities; risk assessments and prioritising ; mitigation measures ( including removal),.

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Outcome of the Third Meeting (SUBMERGED 3-2015), Gothenburg 14 -15 October

• The Meeting requested that the SUBMERGED assessment

is covered in the agenda of the HELCOM RESPONSE 21- 2016 meeting (15-17 March 2016, Sweden) and agreed that the available draft of the whole report will be compiled in February 2016 and sent to the HELCOM RESPONSE meeting for commenting, provision of additional information and in order to consider prolonging the current deadline of the SUBMERGED activity (ready report by the end of 2016).

• Draft outline of chapter on Wrecks of HELCOM

SUBMERGED Assessment was prepared as Annex 4.

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Outcome of the Third Meeting (SUBMERGED 3-2015), Gothenburg 14 -15 October

• Submerged WG status was presented - Agenda item 8. Wrecks

and other hazardous substances

• DAIMON project was presented – Agenda item 8.
• BONUS SWERA - Sunken Wreck Environmental Risk

Assessment was presented - Agenda Item 8.

• The Meeting recalled that according to the Terms of Reference

the mandate for SUBMERGED is for three years until end of 2016

• The Meeting supported of the SUBMERGED work until the end
• f 2018, requested the SUBMERGED Group to provide short

chapters on the three SUBMERGED topics to the Secretariat for the Maritime Assessment by end of May 2016.

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Outcome of the Response Working Group Stockholm, Sweden, 15-17 March 2016

• The Meeting took note of the information that

○ Finland and Sweden have conducted wreck surveys to assess slicks from wrecks with potential risks and ○ by Poland that new wrecks are being checked for the same

• reason. Sweden will start looking into environmentally

dangerous wrecks, ○ Poland is working on a national waste management plan and tackling of high risk wrecks has also been included in the national program of measures and ○ Estonia is preparing ratification of the Nairobi Convention.

• The Meeting took note of the information by Sweden on the three

year Interreg DiveSMART Baltic project (kick-off 14 March 2016) (document 8-3). The project has focus on mapping diving competences and resources in the Baltic Sea region (database), common training and exercises, common guidelines and procedures, research and general exchange of experiences.

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Outcome of the Response Working Group Stockholm, Sweden, 15-17 March 2016

HELCOM Response 15 -17 March 2016 Stockholm, Sweden

Jorma Rytkönen jorma.rytkonen@ymparisto.fi

• 8.1 Bonus Swera
• 8.2 Helcom Submerged
• 8.5 Daimon Project
• DIVE SMART
• Activities 2016

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Contents

8.1 BONUS SWERA

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• 1.) Wreck survey – selecting the primary

targets (high potential for oil pollution, New Data Base

• 2.) Validation of the wreck model

(Vraka)

• 3.) Modification of the existing wreck

model to also include the risk assessment of different salvage

• peration alternatives
• 4.) Developing innovative

technological solutions for oil removal

• perations,
• Salvage Toolbox Development

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BONUS SWERA: Main Objectives / Results

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Sweden

• 2700 subsea objects
• Moderate Risk 316

wrecks

• High Risk 31 wrecks

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Estonian wreck register

705 wrecks, from which 84 found & confirmed 14 wrecks with potential oil risk !

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FINLAND, VTT 1999

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8.2 HELCOM Submerged

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HELCOM Expert Group on environmental risks of hazardous submerged objects

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Munitions

• Introduction
• Munitions in the Baltic Sea
• National activities
• International activities
• Geographic distribution
• Environmental issues
• Risk Assessment
• Remediation/salvage measures
• Conclusions & Recommendations

HELCOM Expert Group on environmental risks of hazardous submerged objects

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Wrecks

• Wrecks in the Baltic Sea
• Former reports
• National activities
• International activities
• Limits and quality of information
• Introduction of wrecks into the Baltic

Sea

• Areas of concern
• Hazards related to fuel and cargo oils
• Other hazards related to wrecks

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Proposal: New joint wreck portal between authorities and wreck divers ?

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• Benefits:
• Data source
• Observations -

both directions

• Warnings
• Tips
• Advice
• Lessons learned
• Networking
• Events: workshops,

seminars, full-scale diving events ?

Slides: Finnish Navy (Up) B. Hac (Down)

8.5 DAIMON

in coordination with

• Dr. Jazek Beldowski/

Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN)

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• 1. Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN)

PL, LEAD PARTNER

• 2. Polish Naval Academy (PNA) PL
• 3. Military University of Technology (MUT) PL
• 4. Maritime Institute Gdańsk (MIG) PL
• 5. Lithuanian Environmental Protection Agency (LEPA) LT
• 6. Alfred Wegener Institute Helmhotz Centre for Polar and Marine

Research (AWI) DE

• 7. Johann Heinrich von ThünenInstitut, Federal Research Institut

für Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries (TIFI) DE

• 8. Technical University of Clausthal (TUC) DE
• 9. University of Helsinki VERIFIN FI
• 10. Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) FI
• 11. Chalmers University of Technology SE
• 12. Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) NO
• 13. Stichting International Dialogue on Dumped Munitions (IDUM)

INT

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DAIMON

• The Baltic Sea contains a dark legacy of ca. 50 000 tons of

dumped chemical warfare agents (CWA) and more than 200 000 tons conventional munitions originating from the I and II WWs. In addition, c.a. 45000 tons of CWAs were dumped in Skagerrak.

• The BSR project CHEMSEA (20112014) for the first time

addressed potential environmental impacts and biological effects of dumped chemical munitions on marine organisms in the Baltic Sea and proved clearly that they pose an environmental risk. There is a constant release of contaminants, either due to corrosion of the shells or due to anthropogenic disturbance.

• Moreover, the upcoming saline water inflow (biggest since

60 years) will drastically change sea bottom conditions, most likely altering the oxidation/corrosion conditions of the munitions.

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DAIMON

• The question which DAIMON takes up is how to proceed

with the identified and mapped warfare objects. Remediation or no-action are subject to heated disputes among the decision making bodies.

• DAIMON will develop tools to support the BSR

governments in case to case decision making.

• Munitions, by their very nature, are sensitive to shock and

therefore can be exploded even by an energy pulse. The question that needs to be asked is, after 60 years on the sea floor, how deteriorated are the casings and primers of these munitions and what is the risk of unintentional detonating them by underwater activities.

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DAIMON

• DAIMON is going to close the gap in ecotoxicological

methods relevant for chemical warfare agents, explosives and their degradation products, which is a serious scientific challenge, as their metabolic pathways in marine animals are unrecognized yet.

• Very little is known about the short and long-term effects
• f marine warfare agents on humans.
• Different management options for marine munitions have

been used globally, but their application to specific challenges encountered in the Baltic Sea has not been

• evaluated. DAIMON project will review existing procedures

and evaluate their suitability for Baltic Sea environmental conditions.

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DAIMON

• "DiveSMART Baltic is a project application initially

generating from the Costa Concordia accident in 2012.

• The lessons learned during the accident and transferred

during a national conference by the Italian rescue divers made apparent obvious gaps in Swedish emergency preparedness.

• Swedish Coast Guard, Armed Forces, rescue services from

municipalities, Police and some private training facilities for divers participated in a national project to create a data base for all diving competences (tax paid divers) and to look into common and mutual training.

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Interreg Project DiveSMART Baltic (Sweden)

M451 deactivation – after May 1 2016 – two weeks period

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Saksalainen M 451 eksyi väylältä ajaessaan pimeän tullessa sisään Porkkalaan ja joutui karille noin mailin päässä Mäkiluodon linnakkeesta Porkkalan edustalla. Luotsit tulivat tapahtumapaikalle apuun ensimmäisenä ja sen jälkeen myös Mäkiluodon linnakkeen yhteysveneet. Laiva pääsi omin konein irti ja jäi karikon viereen. Se oli kuitenkin saanut niin pahoja vaurioita, että 80 hengen miehistö joutui jättämään aluksen mukanaan vain vähäinen määrä henkilökohtaista omaisuutta ja kantamukset laivassa olleesta konjakkivarastosta. Suomalaisaluksiin siirtyneet saksalaissotilaat saattoivat aamulla havaita laivansa kadonneeksi Suomenlahden aaltoihin. (Hylyt.net) Sank down 31.1.1944 position: P 59 53,549' I 24 20,141'

Z36 visit in May

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• Surveillance mission
• Test TURVA’s diving systems
• Map the wreck
• Map the munitions onboard
• Map all dangerous objects preventing the diving operations
• Sampling

○ Sampling / DAIMON project ○ Sampling to define any hydrocarbon leakages ○ Lignine oil >< PAH’s problem ?

• Take oil samples through the hull
• Evaluate the corrosion rate.

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Z36 Goals

German Destroyer lying in the depths of Finnish coastal waters

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More Information

jorma.rytkonen@ymparisto.fi www.syke.fi/projects/swera