the occasion of the first edition of the Week Sea 8 to 14 June 2009, organized under the Grenelle Sea the World Ocean Day was held on June 8 This is an opportunity to look at mapping sites that show how the oceans are under surveillance, especially in terms of risk of accidental marine pollution. The site
Oceanatlas.org offers a website called Ocean Atlas Online developed under the authority of UN-Oceans, the mechanism for interagency coordination on oceans and coastal theme within the UN.
This site offers several atlas, interactive maps and access to document databases and bibliographic by geographical criteria.
On its website, the International Maritime Organization (IMO or IMO) offers very extensive information resources and access to databases like the one on accidental pollution, but few cards.
In each listed marine pollution incident, it has a complete file as in this example of the tanker Erika which the accident occurred Dec. 12, 1999 off the coast of Brittany.
Perhaps you remember the accident. 350 km of coastline soiled, 200,000 birds died, the trades of the sea disaster, such were the consequences of the Erika disaster.
the occasion of the tanker accident, a collaborative website was set up very quickly after the accident in order to identify geographical areas of beach pollution by oil leaked from the tanks of the tanker and mapping, faster than the authorities, the extent of damage. A collaborative map has been achieved by relying on the Internet, and within much faster than the authorities were unable to do so.
The site Centre for Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution (CEDAR) was established in 1978 following the sinking of the tanker Amoco Cadiz to improve preparedness for the fight against accidental pollution, provides an inventory of each accident identified by list alphabetical or chronological . But it also offers a site map accidents of ships carried on Google Maps.
By clicking on each of the reported accidents, one can access a supplementary information sheet as in the example of the Erika .
Meanwhile, the website of IFREMER offers many studies and maps on monitoring the impact of accidental pollution of the marine environment, including maps the evolution of PAH contamination (Hydrocarbon polycyclic aromatic) in shellfish. Obviously, the case of the Erika is processed.
The site United Nations Environment (UNEP) is particularly rich in all kinds of information resources and specific sites on the oceans and protection of natural environments. Thus, the site of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) provides extensive information on major pollution incidents from ships like the Prestige in 2002 for which this provides information, extracted from satellite images and a precise map position of the tanker during of the accident and the extent of oil slicks in the sea and widespread on the coasts or even damage the marine environment.
This map extract is from one of the sites identified by interactive mapping site WCMC, and baptized IMAPS (Interactive Map Service). Among these sites IMAPS, the one on the Mediterranean Sea is here :
The site Global Resource Information Database (GRID) allows for him to access many library resources and publications eg the 2006 annual report on illegal dumping in the European Seas which teaches us that "One third of global marine oil transportation passes through European waters. tankers, but also many other small vessels to cause Average oil pollution as a result of illegal discharges of which about 3000 represent a year of major events in the region. The consequences of continuous discharges of oil transportation are more harmful and more devastating than oil spills occasional ".
The site of the "International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited "offers many statistics and reports and access to databases on accidental oil spills from tankers since 1974 . It also offers an online mapping site :
To extend these various sites will be found here a list of links to numerous websites on the oceans.
To mark the week of the sea, the sailor Maud Fontenoy, who was appointed spokesperson for and was entrusted by the Minister of Ecology and Sustainable Development, Jean-Louis Borloo, the public awareness, jumped into the Seine from the Pont Alexandre III on June 10 for a winching demonstration in honor of the rescuers SNSM which often occur during oéprations rescue crews of tankers which accidents are the cause of pollution incidents mentioned above dessus.A note that the website offers SNSM here an interactive map of the stations, antennas and training centers of the lifeboat in France.
Clearly, the idea of combining Greater Paris Paris and Le Havre and allowing the city to consider now as a seaport, made its way ...
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