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Each time an oil spill occurs it has a significant impact on the maritime environment and on the nearby coastlines. The marine and coastal ecosystems are detrimentally affected, and economic consequences are enormous. This makes it essential to have a well functioning and well trained European oil spill policy and expertise based on cooperation among European maritime member countries. When oil spill accident occurs, many personals immediately are involved from:
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National, international and local environmental authorities
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Coast guard authorities
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Shipping companies
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Harbour authorities
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Police and offshore operators
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Press
Managing oil spill accidents the challenges are to ensure, that rescue authorities, firms and personals are interacting rational and professional. To obtain this, training of responsible rescue personals are regularly accomplished. The training method used today is expensive: personals are expensively transported to rescue training centres and personals under training are “away from job”. Method “away from job” further has a negative adverse effect by training people away from their authentic surroundings.
The challenge is to develop new tools and facilities in the process of improving local and international capability in responding to oil spills in marine environments. This tool is project CMS 3, where will be developed a full web Home Page based marine rescue training system including e-learning modules for those who usually participate de facto in responding to incidents of oil spill at sea.
CMS 3 introduces an innovative ICT-based learning system on a high pedagogical level, which supports the need of practical lifelong learning.
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