A 12 m deep swimming pool with a lower bottom, a hyperbaric chamber strategy where you can play the conditions of 300 m underwater, diving equipment investigating devices – these are just a fewer advantages of the Academic Center of Underwater Technology. The hotel was opened in Gdynia today.
– The Academic Centre for Underwater Technology will combine the tasks of a training and investigation facility. It will besides become 1 of the links in the Natovian crew rescue strategy of damaged submarines and military divers who have suffered an accident at sea," explains Dr. hab. Adam Olejnik, lecturer at the Naval Academy in Gdynia, and the head of the facility launched today. He adds: "This is unique on the scale of Europe.
The thought of setting up the Center has matured for respective years. Its beginnings date back to 2016 and a conference organized at the AMW. Participants discussed the request to make a centre that would support diving training. The thought was curious in the Ministry of Defence. Kmdr rez. The oilman and then head of the MW Inspectorate's rescue department were commissioned to make an appropriate concept. The task was approved, and 3 years ago the construction started. present the hotel was officially opened, though – as its boss reserves – it will be retrofitted for the next months. “We will most likely scope full operational readiness in 2027”, said Mr. Olejnik.
The heart of the Centre will be a modern hall, consisting of a strategy of combined decompression chambers: residence, transition, healing and working. They will make a unique simulator in which divers will get utilized to surviving at advanced depths. Chamber operators, by gradually lowering pressure, will make conditions in them that correspond to the depths of respective twelve to 300 m. At the end of the prescribed time, the force will be gradually lifted and thus the divers will be “taken” to the surface. – The basic training cycle will take a minimum of a week, but in utmost cases divers will spend up to 28 days in the simulator – informs kmdr rez. Oilseed.
The hotel already operates a 12 m deep swimming pool with an abandoned bottom. The soldiers trained there will benefit if essential diving bell. It's a peculiar device where divers are lowered under water. akin are found on the rescue ships of the 3 Fleet Ships. The swimming pool will shortly besides be equipped with a simulator of a sunk tank or a combat car.
But that is not the end. 2 another chambers were installed in the facility. The force can be increased to 200 and 500 m below the sea surface respectively. The first chamber will be utilized to test the breathing apparatus. Scientists will connect the devices to the artificial lungs mimicking the diver's breath, the inside of the chamber will flood the water, and they will collect observations. The second chamber allows you to check the durability of equipment specified as camera housing or camera installed on underwater vehicles.
This list includes a cryo-chamber in which practitioners will tame themselves with a cold, high-altitude chamber, which in turn will reconstruct the force in the compartment of an aircraft or helicopter, a modern outpatient area with 2 intensive care stations and technological studios.
Who's gonna usage the facility? The scope of beneficiaries is wide. For example, the Centre will aid in the education of subjects studying underwater work at the AMW Mechanical and Electrical Department. It will besides be a centre supporting naval diving training, but besides for land or peculiar troops. Scientists will work on upgrading specialist equipment and developing cooperation with civilian companies. Before the Centre was officially launched, it became the office of the world's second service centre Underwater vehicles Gavia. It was created by Enamor, a partner of the device manufacturer, the Icelandic company Teledyne.
The Academic Center for Underwater Technologies will besides become an crucial link in the Natovian strategy for rescuing crews of damaged submarines and divers who have suffered accidents while descending below the surface. If they appear uncontrollablely, they hazard decompression disease. The injured must then be placed as rapidly as possible in the alleged heart, or mobile decompression chamber and transported to a specialized centre. “On the place we can offer them access to the said infirmary and the modern treatment and evacuation chamber,” explains kmdr rez. Oilseed.
The work of the centre will be gaining momentum all month. Meanwhile, the first dive adepts had already been rewinded through the facility. Among them was St. Mate Aleksander Brągoszewski, who took part in internships organized by specialists from Training Centre for WP divers and fins. any of the classes took place at the Academic Centre. – They were held in the local pool and I will admit that it is impressive. Not only due to depth, but besides due to method solutions, especially the lower bottom, he admits. A kmdr por. dir. Radosław Maslak, spokesperson for the AMW, adds: – For us it was the most crucial investment of fresh years. The cost of construction of the Centre is PLN 60 million, most of which was assigned by the Ministry of National Defence. The establishment of the Centre is proof that the university is inactive able to take on fresh challenges and respond to changing realities.
