– Dr. Gunnar Tietzewww.ghycop.de1 The GHyCoP-Network: Federal- and Regional Governments as well as Governmental Agencies Research & Education Industry: Suppliers of Components and System solutions Services: Hydrography Consulting Shipping Companies Logistics

– Dr. Gunnar Tietzewww.ghycop.de2 Our Support for Southern Asia: Focusing on immediate and sustainable support: GHyCoP concentrates on solutions for sub-marine damages and changes which are in general not visible from air: Starting point: The tsunami has caused a tremendous sub-aqueous transport of sediments. Ports and shipping routes are filled with sediments in addition to wrecks and other debris from onshore, and may be therefore unsafe. Buoys and other navigational traffic signs are destroyed or drifted away. The former existing maritime infrastructure (survey vessels and processing facilities) at many places are lost or destroyed. So, what to do on short notice?

– Dr. Gunnar Tietzewww.ghycop.de3 Urgent Measures:  Identification of damages  Supply of equipment and survey vessels incl. special ships for buoy launching and removal of obstacles and wrecks which may lay in the shipping routes.  Reconstruction of local hydrographic services  Surveying damages at coastal facilities e.g. ports and shipping routes with the immediate task:  to guarantee cost-effective and secure supply of goods via sea transport, with the aim to help people back to self-reliance (instead of supplying people via helicopter),  to support local fishermen (and other maritime business people) to get back to their normal life.

– Dr. Gunnar Tietzewww.ghycop.de4 Sustainable Approach: Starting point: 4Tsunamis may have different sources:  earthquakes  sub-marine land slides, turbidity currents  sub-marine volcanic eruptions 4In the deep ocean tsunamis are not really dangerous. 4Tsunamis are growing only when approaching shallow coastal areas! 4Their tremendous potential of damages depends on the shape of the coastal topography and the shelf-ocean morphology. Therefore sustainability means:

– Dr. Gunnar Tietzewww.ghycop.de5 Sustainable Approach: Goals:  Detailed sea floor surveying of the coastal zones.  Development of hydro-numerical forecasting models which are based on detailed survey results to predict the run of tsunamis and their magnitude to alert and avoiding false alarms. GHyCoP provides support on the base of approved knowledge and techniques, which is available in Germany and can be activated on short notice!

– Dr. Gunnar Tietzewww.ghycop.de6 Results:  The provision of such an operational system strengthens sustainable benefit to the Southern Asian nations and and deepens a long-term co-operation with Germany.  Based on a reliable public-private-partnership, a broad range of products and services can be provided on short notice even in the governmental sphere.  The proposed measures will be accompanied by education and training programmes.  GHyCoP provides an existing network of German governmental agencies, public and private services and industry which is ready to start on short notice.

– Dr. Gunnar Tietzewww.ghycop.de7 Benefit for All: GHyCoP the German Hydrographic Consultancy Pool w.V. is a living network of German  governmental authorities,  Research and educational institutes  public and private services and  industry which is ready to start on short notice. Let’s work for a save future