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Contribution from Germany ‐ ideas and suggestions ‐

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission Expert Group on environmental risks of hazardous submerged objects (SUBMERGED) Szczecin, Poland, 29‐30 October 2014

• 3. Draft outline of the SUBMERGED
• Assessment 2015
• The Meeting is invited to:

– consider, edit and agree on a draft outline of 2015 SUBMERGED Assessment (document 3‐1). – agree on lead authors for drafting chapters.

• 4. Wrecks esp. Polluting wrecks
• The Meeting is invited to discuss available

information on polluting wrecks

– Example of war time wreck  4.1 – Example of recently sunk ship  4.2

4.1 war ships ‐ Kadet trench

4.1 war ship – off Liepaja

• Cargo ship: Transportdampfer ILMENAU

– Sunk 10.04.1945 on approach to the port of LIEPAJA – Cargo: Ammunition for Army: Wrack is sufficiently filled with ammunition, according to report of Latvian Navy (2006)

• Documents

– Construction plan or other ship documents were lost in Hamburg (war time and flood 1962) – Loading list was not found, thus no credible information about types of ammunition

• Possible sources of data:

– German Fed. Archives, Dep. military archive (Freiburg)

• Army‐ support organization
• Navy transport organization
• War ministry

– Between 100 and 500 m documents !!!!!!

4.2 period after WW II

• M/S Jan Heweliusz

– Position: 54° 36′ N, 14° 13′ O – the wreck of the ship is located at the depth of 17 to 27 metres and is frequently visited by divers

• 5. Dumped hazardous waste
• The Meeting is invited to discuss available

information on dumped hazardous waste

– Information about bottles with Chlorine gas and Phosgene in Lübeck Bight – officially dumped waste (hospital) – current position unknown

• 6. Lost cargo and other

dumped objects

• Example:

RoRo ferry LISCO GLORIA

www.havariekommando.de

Accident in October 2010 Shoring of ash (fat) March 2014

www.shz.de

• 7. Warfare materials
• HELCOM MUNI report and
• Results of e.g.

– CHEMSEA, – MODUM and – SOAM

• Recently found

archive material Map from 2 layers: German national & HELCOM‐Muni

Sources: http://maps.helcom.fi/website/mapservice/index.html http://www.underwatermunitions.de

STEPS TO A COMMON REPORT DRAFT #1

HELCOM‐Submerged No. 1 – 29. and 30. October 2014

Lead Cooperation Remarks Wrecks FIN PL Dumped waste DE Separate from “marine litter” (MSDF) Lost cargo SE Warfare material PL DE, SE

Time to come to joined report

DK EST FIN D LAT LIT PL RUS SE Wrecks Dumped waste Lost cargo Warfare material

Geography and Experts with Submerged 1

Many Some Pour No Remarks Wrecks X Dumped waste X Lost cargo X Warfare material X

Available data for a joined report

short moderate medium long Remarks Wrecks X Dumped waste not known Lost cargo not known Warfare material X

Time to come to joined report

Many Some Pour No Short Muni Prio 2 Prio 3 Prio 4 Moderate Wreck Prio 2 Prio 3 Prio 4 Medium Prio 3 Prio 3 Prio 3 Prio 4 long Prio 4 Prio 4 Dumped Waste Lost Cargo

Prioritization (1st draft)

Data Time

General topics

• Geographical distribution
• Environmental issues
• Risk assessment
• Risk management (Priorities)
• Salvages, Remediation, Technologies (Toolbox)
• Identified gaps