1. lfremer SeaTechWeek Brest 2004 / Technologie for Search, Assistance and Rescue at Sea Welcome P. Marchand 1 Technologies for Search, Assistance and Rescue Seminar Le Quartz - Brest, France - 18-19 October 2004 Welcome Philippe Marchand - Ifremer

2. lfremer SeaTechWeek Brest 2004 / Technologie for Search, Assistance and Rescue at Sea Welcome P. Marchand 2 Ifremer’s Missions Ifremer’s missions are to conduct and promote basic and applied research, make expert assessment reports and take action for technological and industrial development intended to : identify, evaluate and enhance marine resources and enable their substainable exploitation, improve methods of monitoring, forecasting trends, protecting and enhancing marine and coastal environments, encourage the economic development of maritime activities.

3. lfremer SeaTechWeek Brest 2004 / Technologie for Search, Assistance and Rescue at Sea Welcome P. Marchand 3 Ifremer’s Activities  Coastal environment management  Marine living resource management  Ocean research  Engineering and marine technology  Managing ocean research vessels and tools for underwater intervention

4. lfremer SeaTechWeek Brest 2004 / Technologie for Search, Assistance and Rescue at Sea Welcome P. Marchand 4 Key figures  An annual budget of nearly 150 million euros  1,385 salaried employees at Ifremer and 320 salaried staff at Genavir (shipowner)  5 centres : Brest, Manche/mer du Nord, Méditerranée, Nantes, Tahiti  72 laboratories or research departments, located in 24 stations along the coastline of metropolitan France and in the French overseas administrative departments and territories  An entire range of facilities for aquaculture production and experimentation  7 vessels (4 of them blue ocean), 1 manned submersible, 1 remotely-operated deep sea (- 6,000 m) vehicle  A full set of test facilities

5. lfremer SeaTechWeek Brest 2004 / Technologie for Search, Assistance and Rescue at Sea Welcome P. Marchand 5 Technologies for search, assistance and rescue at sea The aim of the seminar is to exchange information about technological needs and solutions to prevent incidents at sea from turning into major disasters, to discuss on- going projects, and to pool our efforts in order to build synergies between relevant stakeholders and nations and to promote the dissemination of means of protection throughout the maritime industry.

6. SATELLITE OBSERVATION MODELLING ASSIMILATION JASON MERCATOR Operational Oceanography IN SITU OBSERVATION CORIOLIS Ifremer, SHOM, CNES, CNRS, Meteo-France, IRD, IPEV

7. Materials Metocean Fluid/structure interactions Offshore Activities Soil characterisation Material behaviour Underwater vehicles

8. lfremer SeaTechWeek Brest 2004 / Technologie for Search, Assistance and Rescue at Sea Welcome P. Marchand 8 Metocean Constitution of sea conditions climatologies by merging the best of various sources of data

9. lfremer SeaTechWeek Brest 2004 / Technologie for Search, Assistance and Rescue at Sea Welcome P. Marchand 9 Metocean Modeling of the process of sea states history, at a location or along a coast or a route, for the planning of marine operations for instance.

10. lfremer SeaTechWeek Brest 2004 / Technologie for Search, Assistance and Rescue at Sea Welcome P. Marchand 10 The Wreck Prestige

11. lfremer SeaTechWeek Brest 2004 / Technologie for Search, Assistance and Rescue at Sea Welcome P. Marchand 11 Photos La Voz de Galicia Prestige Inspection Oil leakage, sticker (20 cm) Mapping Plugging

12. lfremer SeaTechWeek Brest 2004 / Technologie for Search, Assistance and Rescue at Sea Welcome P. Marchand 12 Programme 2 days organized in several sessions per day 2 days organized in several sessions per day.  Day 1 (2004/10/18) Status of politics, organisations, models and technical tools running over the world to face the Search, Assistance and Rescue problems.  Day 2 (2004/10/19) Prospectives (methods, developments), frameworks and collaborations to consider to answer the Search, Assistance and Rescue challenges.

13. lfremer SeaTechWeek Brest 2004 / Technologie for Search, Assistance and Rescue at Sea Welcome P. Marchand 13 Acknowledgements Sponsors

14. lfremer SeaTechWeek Brest 2004 / Technologie for Search, Assistance and Rescue at Sea Welcome P. Marchand 14 Acknowledgements Technical program organizers