Deployment Strategies Global Approach and Innovation JCOMMOPS coordinators M. Belbeoch and M. Kramp AST#14 March 2013, Wellington
Density and deployments We have recurrent global and regional gaps. Deployment issues were underestimated when Argo was designed and keep growing due to substantial budget cuts. Information on both, opportunities and needs, are hard to find in advance. For a couple of years, JCOMMOPS proposed to implement an adequate long-term strategy. Key factor was the creation of a new Ship Coordinator position, as a focal point for all ship-related activities of ocean observing systems.
New Ship Coordinator at JCOMMOPS: Martin Kramp The activities of the Ship Coordinator will be balanced between: Technical coordination for the SOT and GO-SHIP initiative General Ship-time service and cruise information management Cross-sector JCOMMOPS tasks (cooperation, training, communication) Submit your needs to Martin: mkramp@jcommops.org, +33 561 394 782 How many units to be deployed? Where? When? Available funding? Martin will try to find the best solutions for your needs.
Opportunities, Research Vessels and Charters A new strategy must be balanced between: Synergies within scheduled research cruises Recruitment of unexploited opportunity vessels in new organizational frameworks - World Ocean Council (maritime industry) - Specialized sailing associations (NGOs) - Ocean sailing schools and tour operators - Nonprofessional ocean rallies - Professional ocean races and delivery cruises Only a few contact points giving access to many vessels! Charter of adequate vessels for substantial deployments
Successful Pilot Projects Several successful deployment projects with the sailing community have been organized by JCOMMOPS over the last 12 months. Lady Amber, the 20m South-African schooner chartered through JCOMMOPS, already deployed more than 100 instruments in the Indian and Atlantic Ocean. Lady Amber will be ready for new mission (Indian Ocean? ) in a few weeks
Successful Pilot Projects Several successful deployment projects with the sailing community have been organized by JCOMMOPS over the last 12 months. In partnership with the French NGO Voiles Sans Frontières, 12 floats were deployed in the Atlantic Ocean last season and at least 15 are previewed by the end of the year.
Successful Pilot Projects Several successful deployment projects with the sailing community have been organized by JCOMMOPS over the last 12 months. In partnership with the Suisse NGO Multi One Attitude Foundation, 2 floats were deployed in the Atlantic last June by MOD70 trimarans. This partnership will be of growing importance through the upcoming World Race of the MOD70s and excellent communication possibilities.
JCOMMOPS: Service Provider for Deployments But the global array cannot be maintained only by research vessels (funding issues) and opportunity vessels (limited quantity). JCOMMOPS worked with a specialized maritime consultancy on a strategy for worldwide substantial and cost-effective deployment. The oceans were divided into a number of areas of similar complexity. The consultancy delivered a study including political, logistic, density, I1 piracy and meteorological factors. Depending on the regional characteristics, adequate charter vessels I2 ORGANISATION OF AREAS OF DEPLOYMENT N1 I3 N2 were identified, to complete the operations of research and opportunity vessels with large scale deployments. S1 M4 M5 P1 P3 P4 P2 S2 JCOMMOPS is now capable to offer turnkey solutions for substantial deployments anywhere in the world. M2 P5 M3 A1 A2 N3 M1 S3
Different Vessels for different Regions Three different vessel types were chosen for the global charter approach, with the payload correctly assured. A polar vessel would operate in the northern polar areas. Details TBD. An innovative fast multirole vessel would operate in risky areas or requiring huge amounts of floats. Several sailing vessels would operate in non-piracy areas.
Details OE40 Euros The OE40 follows the idea Daily of a Fast rate Research OE40Vessel, designed more than 10 years ago, with additional security equipment for risky areas. 9000 Multihull design combines efficient performance (high speed at low 8000 fuel consumption) with excellent seakeeping. 7000 6000 At economic cruise speed (12 kn), the vessel can cruise 5,000 5000 nautical miles and deploy 3 floats in two days (3 equatorial grid). daily rate LRA - 1 year 4000 4 tons of instruments and 3000 equipment could be stored. 2000 Core crew 6. Up to 11 passengers. contract daily rate LRA - 2 years contract 1000 Prototype to be launched in 2013. Daily 0 rates drop below 5 k, if all players 30 act efficiently 60 90 together! 120 150 180 210 Number of days chartered / year High Risk Area: additional cost 4000E/day High Southern Latitudes: additional cost 3000E/day
Details Sailing Vessels Further professional sailing vessels are ready to sail, following the Lady Amber concept. They could store between 1 and 2 tons of equipment. Euros 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 Traditional sailing vessels could operate in less complicated areas, at rather low daily rates combined with low speed. Modified racing yachts, from a previewed One-design series for the Daily rate Renaissance Daily rate Lady Amber Southern Ocean, combine solidity, 2000 huge storage capacities, high-speed 1800 and low daily rates (TBD) for frequent 1600 deployments in high southern 1 year contract 1400 1 year contract latitudes. 500 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 2 years contract 3 years contract 4 years contract Euros 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0 30 60 90 120 150 2 years contract 3 years contract 4 years contract Number of days chartered per year Number of days chartered per year
Overview Worldwide Deployment Strategy JCOMMOPS proposes to manage the best possible composition of all described vessels. If all players across borders, programs and panels within JCOMM act together, everybody wins! I1 I2 ORGANISATION OF AREAS OF DEPLOYMENT N1 N2 M3 N3 M4 P1 P2 M2 A1 M1 I3 P5 P4 P3 A2 M5 S1 S2 S3
Cruise Information Centre The implementation of such a strategy requires all relevant data, from both vessel AND float operators, in a central data base, several months before the mission. JCOMMOPS is working on the design of such a system. All necessary metadata will be gathered here, about the ships, their routes and capacities. Operators will be able to add their data through a user-friendly GUI. The JCOMMOPS ship coordinator will act proactively to collect missing information and to close gaps. Based on requests by operators, JCOMMOPS will cumulate as many synergies and actors as possible to make cost-effective proposals. This system is one of the new elements of the new JCOMMOPS Information System. A prototype is previewed for June.
Conclusion and Outlook Deployment activities must be reorganized at a global scale. Soon. It will be more and more difficult to deroute research vessels for float deployments, due to extremely high daily rates and budget cuts. Opportunity vessels are far from well-exploited, but more pro-active recruiting activities are necessary and quantities remain limited. For dedicated deployment missions, adequate and cost-effective charter vessels for cooperative cross-program operations must be identified and managed by a neutral focal point. JCOMMOPS has now all the capacities and contacts to handle the overall management of global and substantial deployment missions. And exploit communication potential to promote and humanize the GOOS and Argo in particular Ask JCOMMOPS support!