Brest (France - EU) - 09/12/2010 - 3B Tips - assistance to ships difficulties is a new mission center of expertise pollution control practices ( CEPPOL ). Headquartered in Brest, this specialized unit of the Navy will take responsibility assessment teams and intervention hoisted on ships in distress. His role will be to form teams: 6 team leaders and 6 assistants to the evaluation team; thirty people (firefighters, chemists, Boatswains, mechanics) for the Response Team.
CEPPOL consists of 8 persons including 3 officers experts. It is placed under the command of Captain Jean-Bernard Cerutti. At Brest, he has the support buildings and Argonaute Alcyon (total capacity of 2000 m3 of recovery) and in Toulon, building support Jason . A fleet of equipment and materials specific abatement is available in the naval bases.
Thirty wreck under surveillance
4600 shipwrecks are scattered on the coast of Dunkirk in Menton. CEPPOL is responsible for monitoring the wreckage of a length less than 60 m. Brest regularly monitors the cell from 30 to 40 wrecks from Dunkirk to Hendaye. The last mission, last September, allowed the recovery of 90 m 3 hydrocarbon on the wreck of the frigate Laplace bay of La Fresnaye (Côtes-d'Armor).
In March 2010, CV Jean-Bernard Cerutti represented the French government during the transfer operation of Shechem Osprey stranded on the island of Clipperton February 10 with 6,000 tons of animal fat, 10,500 tons of xylene and 6,000 tons of soybeans with a Rescue team leader of the company Bourbon. "I was responsible for monitoring all the work done by the company Svitzer , a delicate operation 15 days, hampered by a tsunami alert on February 27. "
article: BB
sources: West France / Navy
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