ECO Cleanup action in Dubrovnik

Written on 07 January 2021.

A cleanup action took place on Saturday 19th of September at two of the test sites of the SeaClear project in the Dubrovnik area. We have now footage of the actions and an analysis of the litter that was collected during the actions.

Lokrum island

17 divers took place at this clean up action, and they managed to collect 88 kg of waste within one hour of diving. Most of this was in the form of plastic (80kg), consisting of 615 plastic bottles and 450 different plastic fraction units

Tags: test sites, cleanup, video

Media mentions for SeaClear

Written on 03 December 2020.

While we are busy with the developments of the SeaClear project, several media outlets have found our vision for cleaner waters appealing and have published stories about the project.

SeaClear project has been featured in the 5th issue of 2020 of UT3 magazine. This is the magazine of "the Society for Underwater Technology" in the USA.
SeaClear was also mentioned in Fokus, a Fraunhoffer CML magazine, and an interview of our partners in CML was published in the Fraunhofer website.
Finally, SeaClear was featured in the Ship & Offshore magazine on the 6th issue of 2020. (see attachment)

Tags: press mentions

SeaClear featured in BayFOR

Written on 06 October 2020.

The SeaClear project has been featured on the website of the Bavarian Reseach Alliance (BayFOR):

https://www.bayfor.org/en/projects/projects-with-thematic-filter/seaclear.html

BayFOR is an organization with the aim of supporting Bavaria as a center for science and innovation within the European Research Area.

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Marine litter clean-up action in Brijesta bay

Written on 04 August 2020.

*Divers at the Brijesta Bay, collecting litter*

On July 11th 2020, the University of Dubrovnik and Regional Agency DUNEA participated in a marine litter clean-up action in Mali Ston Bay. This event has been organized by Dubrovnik Neretva County Public Institution for Nature Protection, as part of the ECOSS project. The exact demo site was Brijesta bay on Pelješac peninsula. Besides being the location with highly developed mariculture production, this site also falls under the area of the largest ecological network in the world – European ecological network Natura 2000.

SeaCat received by Subsea Tech

Written on 24 July 2020.

*The SeaCat USV at the Subsea Tech workshop*

On 10th of July, Subsea Tech received the SeaCat Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) from the shipyard which manufactured the hull and integrated the propulsion. SeaCat will be used as the surface platform to deploy the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and the two Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicles (ROVs) to locate and collect litter from the seabed and from the water column in the SeaClear project. This is a great step forward for the project as the team will now be able to work on hardware/software integration during the coming months. SeaCat is a 6.70 m long – 1.1 ton USV with 250 kg payload capacity and 7 days autonomy, able to embark, in addition to the ROVs, various sensors and tooling for coastal and offshore missions. SeaCat is housed in a purpose built new workshop at Subsea Tech seaside facilities in Marseilles.