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Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission Response Working Group Riga, Latvia, 8-10 November 2016 RESPONSE 22-2016 Document title Report on Mini CEPCO 2016 Code 9.1-1 Category INF Agenda Item 9.

1 Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission Response Working Group Riga, Latvia, 8-10 November 2016 RESPONSE Document title Report on Mini CEPCO 2016 Code Category INF Agenda Item 9.1 Aerial surveillance Submission date Submitted by Poland Reference Background Poland hosted a Mini CEPCO over international waters between Poland and Sweden on 17 May The attached document contains the report of the Coordinated Extended Pollution Control Operation Flight, which lasted for 11h and 36 minutes. Action requested The Meeting is invited to take note of the report. Page 1 of 1

Report from MINI CEPCO SOUTH 2016 dated 17 May 2016.

2 Report from MINI CEPCO SOUTH 2016 dated 17 May According to the decision of the Informal Working Group on Aerial Surveillance HELCOM IWGAS which was carried on on 7-8 March 2016in Sopot, and Helcom RESPONSE group under Agenda Item 9.1 Aerial surveillance 9.5 Poland had the honor and pleasure to arrange the MINI CEPCO South 2016 operation in place of CEPCO SOUTH due to the lack of countries that were able to participate in CEPCO South operation in the given date. Poland prepared the proposal of the route and invited Sweden to participate in this operation. The MINI CEPCO SOUTH 2016 was carried out over international waters between Poland and Sweden on 17 th May Weather conditions: In east part of CEPCO s route was cloudy. The flights were carried in different and dynamically changing weather conditions. In southern part visibility was over 10 km.wind: V= 10 m/s and sea state: 1-3 Participating units: Aircrafts Flight No. Aircraft Call sign Country Service Flight time Time of take off (UTC) Time of landing Landing 1 AN28 Bryza 404 Poland Polish Navy 3h 16 07:07 10:23 2 Dash 8 SE-MAB Sweden Swedish Coastguard 1h 29 Not reported Not reported 3 M20 Mewa SN-50YG Poland Polish Coastguard 3h 47 13:08 16:55 4 L410 Turbolet SP-MBA Poland Maritime Office Gdynia 3h 04 15:52 18:56 Vessels Country Patrol vessels Call sign Location Sweden KBV 003 SBIW Swedish waters Poland SG 311 SQSA Polish waters

Summary Sweden Poland Remarks No. of aircrafts 1 3 - No. of vessels 1 1 - No. of missions 1 3 - No. of polluters 0 0 - No.

3 Summary Sweden Poland Remarks No. of aircrafts No. of vessels No. of missions No. of polluters No. of oil spills Other substance 0 1 Cargo washing residues (FAME) Time over sea 1 h h 7 Total: 11 h 36 Planned route Picture 1. Route of minicepco South 2016

Satellite Service Satellite pictures delivered by EMSA during the operation: 1. 17.05.

4 Satellite Service Satellite pictures delivered by EMSA during the operation: :13 UTC, ID: , RADARSAT :39 UTC, ID: , RADARSAT-2 Case study During the SP-MBA flight (Maritime Office in Gdynia) the operator was given an information from VTS Zatoka concerning a discharge from a ship that was seen on satellite pictures (pictures 2, 3); an alert was send from CleanSeaNet at 17:03 UTC. Ships name : NORDIC SUND Flag: Norway IMO: Port of origin: Haugsund position of the ship in time of satellite picture 55 05`00 N, `43`` E, discharge seen on pictures : 5 km long, width 0,8 km. Picture 2. CleanSeaNet alert from EMSA.

Annex II (the ship was transporting FAME product).

5 Picture 3. CleanSeaNet alert from EMSA. VTS Zatoka has contacted by radio with a vessel indicated in the report as a culprit which confirmed the discharge of cargo washing residues according to MARPOL Annex II (the ship was transporting FAME product). Information on the alert along with the position of ship were given to aircraft crew, which was coming back from the patrol flight. The aircraft flew over the indicated position and confirmed the other substance presence. Below the radar visualisation along with the route of the aircraft (picture 4) and a photo of designated position (picture 5). Picture 4. SLAR image and map -screenshot from MSS 6000.

Picture 5. Photography of the other substance made by the SP-MBA crew. Summary and remarks Four planes took part in the operation and endurance of the flights was 11 hours 36 minutes.

6 Picture 5. Photography of the other substance made by the SP-MBA crew. Summary and remarks Four planes took part in the operation and endurance of the flights was 11 hours 36 minutes. No oil spills were observed during the operation. Even though only two countries were able to take part in the MINI CEPCO operation proceeding with constant monitoring of given area. The results of operation are confirming the opinion that typical oils spills on the Baltic sea are seen sporadically. Detected by satellites and aircraft crews substances are mostly legal discharges of leftovers after cargo clean ups performed according to MARPOL Annex II. Organizers would also like to make few remarks on the operation. 1. Contracting parties should consider organizing MINI CEPCO s instead of CEPCO due to the less efforts and costs that has to be undertaken in order to organize the operation (with similar effects) 2. Aircrafts with higher cursing speed should perform their flight during the whole planed time and stay over the planned route in order to ensure the continuity of operation.

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission Annual Meeting of the Informal Working Group on Aerial Surveillance Stockholm/Skavsta airport, 22-23 March 2018 IWGAS 2018 Document title Final report of