Diving with State Maritime Resources in The Baltic

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

Date of latest update: 2023-11-02

Description

Description (EN):

The project attempts to prepare divers for cooperation across the Baltic Sea Region in the case of accidents. With coordination and common understanding of procedures, knowledge of general and specific diving competences and mapping of gaps, a solid and endurable search and rescue organization can be established in the Baltic Sea, making it a safer place to travel, live and work on. Lessons learned from the 2012 accident of Costa Concordia in Italy transferred during a national conference organised by the Italian rescue divers made gaps in Swedish emergency preparedness apparent. The Swedish Coast Guard and the Swedish Armed Forces therefore created a national project that has successfully coordinated all professional Swedish divers and their equipment in order to increase the preparedness and efficiency when an incident occurs. The project attempts to do the same in order to prepare divers for cooperation across the Baltic Sea Region. Incidents have occurred with regularity, and will do so in the future. The Baltic Sea has its history concerning the Jan Hewelius and the Estonia. Several incidents taking hundreds of lives have occurred elsewhere in the world mainly concerning passenger ferries. Maritime spatial planning has also put more people on the sea, which adds challenges to search and rescue of people in distress. Large wind farms have been established in the Baltic Sea and attractive living areas in harbours with floating homes are continuously being built. These environments are where accidents have and will happen and people have been trapped underwater in confined spaces. These situations demand a search and rescue diver response. Another issue for consideration is that people in accidents on water often drown, but many people also die of exposure as the Baltic Sea is a cold sea. Materials, bail out equipment and quick and safe penetration into confined spaces with air can save time and also lives, if different rescue organisations are familiar with each other due to common training and development. The DiveSMART Baltic project will therefore focus on: • Mapping competences and resources, and creating a database available for national rescue services around the Baltic. • Creating mobilization strategies for divers and equipment. • Creating common training and exercise opportunities. • Creating common guidelines/Standard Operational Procedures. • Performing research on rescue equipment/diving equipment/penetration techniques. • Creating exchanges between professional diving schools around the Baltic to develop excellence in training and education. The project will benefit safety in the Baltic Region also outside the projects partnership by working with the majority of the professional divers (in total 2 500 individuals) and diving schools. The emergency services will be prepared with simple but relevant and updated information.

Achievements (EN):

Divers competences mapped: The first in the Baltic Sea region online database created by DiveSMART-Baltic compiles human diving resources and competences as well as diving equipment in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Sweden. Thanks to this database currently managed by the Swedish Coast Guard, rescue services and authorities in countries around the Baltic Sea can validate the available resources, and better plan search and rescue missions in an underwater environment where local resources are not sufficient. Common operational procedures put into test: In six table top and two live exercises, DiveSMART-Baltic brought together diving communities from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Sweden, offering them a unique opportunity to train search and rescue missions. During Europe’s biggest diving exercise in Kotka, Finland (November 2018), 65 divers from six countries spent 36 hours in water to save lives of 45 people. This exercise enabled to test the newly developed Standard Operational Procedures all the way from alarming, mobilisation to life-rescuing diving. They clarify and harmonise how Rescue Coordination Centres, rescue services, coast guards, fire departments, police and armed forces around the Baltic Sea should cooperate in case of an accident to reduce the reaction time to accidents. Guidelines for dive coordinator officers are already in use by the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Helsinki, Finland and the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre RCC in Tallinn, Estonia. The procedures also serve as a baseline for a long-term exercise plan developed by the project, which include the exercises in May 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden, and in September 2020 in Gdynia, Poland. Maritime safety improved: The Interreg project DiveSMART-Baltic used EUR 1.72 million from the European Union to make the best out of limited diving resources in countries around the Baltic Sea. By bringing diving communities closer together, the Interreg project DiveSMART-Baltic improved the overall maritime safety in the Baltic Sea. The project results are now in use in the project platform ResQU2, which further develops the expertise of national authorities and rescue services in countries around the Baltic Sea to cope with accidents in the Baltic Sea and in ports, including those involving hazardous substances. http://interreg-baltic.eu/project/divesmart-balti/

Website: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/divesmart-baltic/

Delivered Outputs (EN):

A model for inventory of human resources and necessary equipment. A selected database, and a basic management plan. An exercise plan Well established and well functioning exercise sites spread around the Baltic and of varying difficulty, for development of diving techniques and material/equipment. A well planned and commonly established SOP (Standard Operational Procedure). Development of rescue modules, with mobilization and endurance plan. Reduce risk for personnel and damage to material in operational phases

Thematic information

Coastal management and maritime issues Managing natural and man-made threats, risk management Cooperation between emergency services

Specific Objective: ‘Maritime safety’: To increase maritime safety and security based on advanced capacity of maritime actors

Thematic Objective: (07) promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures by:

Investment Priority: (07c) developing and improving environmentally-friendly (including low-noise) and low-carbon transport systems, including inland waterways and maritime transport, ports, multimodal links and airport infrastructure, in order to promote sustainable regional and local mobility

Partners (7)

Lead Partner: Kustbevakningen

Department: -Ministry of Justice

Address: Kustbevakningen, Box 536, 37123 Karlskrona, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.kustbevakningen.se

Total budget: EUR 828 060.30

ERDF budget: EUR 621 045.22

Försvarsmakten

Name: Försvarsmakten

Department: Diving and Navalmedicin Center

Address: SSS/FM DNC Box 527, 37123 Karlskrona, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.forsvarsmakten.se

Total budget: EUR 312 783.30

ERDF budget: EUR 234 587.47

Yrgo, Göteborgs Stad Utbildning

Name: Yrgo, Göteborgs Stad Utbildning

Address: Box 8855, 40272 Göteborg, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://yrgo.se

Total budget: EUR 231 573.03

ERDF budget: EUR 173 679.77

Cold Cut Systems

Name: Cold Cut Systems

Address: PO Box 10181, 43422 Kungsbacka, Sweden

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.coldcutsystems.com

Total budget: EUR 100 035.35

ERDF budget: EUR 75 026.51

Rajavartiolaitos

Name: Rajavartiolaitos

Address: PL 3, 00131 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.raja.fi

Total budget: EUR 314 303.00

ERDF budget: EUR 235 727.25

URSUIT Oy

Name: URSUIT Oy

Address: Teijonkatu 3, 20750 Turku, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.ursuit.com

Total budget: EUR 150 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 112 500.00

Akademia Marynarki Wojennej

Name: Akademia Marynarki Wojennej

Department: Faculty of mechanical and electrical engineering

Address: Śmidowicza Street 69, 81-127 Gdynia, Poland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.amw.gdynia.pl/eng/

Total budget: EUR 310 160.00

ERDF budget: EUR 263 636.00

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Swedish Coast Guard

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Swedish Armed Forces

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Yrgo, Education Department, City of Gothenburg

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Cold Cut Systems

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Suomen rajavartiolaitos

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URSUIT Ltd.

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The Naval Academy

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Summary

Project name (EN): Diving with State Maritime Resources in The Baltic

Project acronym: DiveSMART-Baltic

Project start date: 2016-03-01

Project end date: 2019-02-28

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 246 914.98

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 716 202.22

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 76.40%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 716 202.22.

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Diving and saving lives with DiveSMART Baltic project

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://projects.interreg-baltic.eu/projects/divesmart-baltic-4.html

Publication date: 2021-11-30

Document date: 2016-11-17

Languages: en

Preparing for maritime accidents in the Baltic Sea with DiveSMART Baltic training

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://projects.interreg-baltic.eu/projects/divesmart-baltic-4.html

Publication date: 2022-02-01

Document date: 2017-11-30

Brochures / magazines / manuals

DiveSMART Baltic Guideline/SOP version 1.0

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://projects.interreg-baltic.eu/projects/divesmart-baltic-4.html

Publication date: 2022-02-01

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

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2023-06-16

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