Work of the State Marine Pollution Control, Salvage & Rescue Administration of Russian Federation in 2013 (slide 1) Ladies and gentlemen! In this presentation I want to tell You about work of the State Marine Pollution Control Salvage and Rescue Administration of Russian Federation in
- 2013. I will tell You about new vessels and oil spill combating equipment, about exercises
- n oil spill combating, and also about operations on oil spill combating which were held
- n Russian zone of responsibility in Baltic Sea for this period.
(slide 2) I would like to inform You that on December 17 State Commission accepted into exploitation of the third multifunctional emergency rescue vessel of ice category Arc 5, 4 megawatts power of project MPSV07 “Spasatel Zaborschikov”. This vessel was built on Nevskiy Shipbuilding factory by request of Federal Agency
- f Maritime and River Transport for SMPCSA of Russia.
This vessel as well as vessel “Spasatel Karev” today are the most powerful emergency rescue vessels which are equipped with the latest technology. These vessels had been built at the expense of Federal purpose-oriented program “Development of transport system of Russia”. Multifunctional emergency rescue vessels of project MPSV07 have unlimited area of navigation of strengthened ice class and can be used for search and rescue of vessels in disaster; search, rescue and evacuation of people; refloating of emergency vessels and their towage; fire fighting on vessels; fire fighting of fuel on water; oil spill combating: implementation of underwater operations at depths up to 300 m, survey of seabed and damaged objects at depths up to 1000 m. (slide 3) On the basis of Agreement between Government of Russian federation and Government of Kingdom of Norway on cooperation at search missing in action and rescue терпящих бедствие людей on Barents Sea» on June 5, 2013 in Varanger-Fiord it was conducted Russian-Norwegian exercise «Barents 2013». During exercise rescue services of Russia and Norway worked out activities on search and rescue of people in disaster at sea. Objectives of exercise were:
- 1. To work out cooperation with Russian forces within the framework of Regional
Plan and with Norwegian forces within the framework of Joint Contingency Plan of Cooperation at oil spill combating.
- 2. To work out activities of joint operation control staff as management authority of