Pozzuoli. Damage of 100 thousand euros to the underwater equipment of the Vesuvius Observatory of the INGV in the Gulf of Pozzuoli, by unscrupulous fishermen and boats that cast anchors regardless of the presence of buoys that signal the presence of instruments on the seabed.
This is the alarm raised today on Rai News24 by Mauro Di Vito, director of the Observatory.
“There have been repeated damages to our instruments as in the case of the Gulf of Pozzuoli. These are unique devices in the world placed in shallow water that unfortunately sometimes are, I hope involuntarily, pulled up by anchors and fishing nets in an area declared off limits.
The anchoring and damages continue, not only of an economic nature but also related to the sending and recording of data to our monitoring centre.
If you see anything, please notify the Port Authority and us. It is essential that this equipment is not damaged repeatedly, especially at such a delicate time.
Sometimes the boats that are recognized come to anchor close to this very delicate instrumentalization that is sometimes at minus 50, 30, 70 meters. We then have to intervene but the most serious thing is the loss of data, we cannot afford it”.
“It is a unique instrument in the world and we need it to study the phenomenon”
This instrumentation is unique in the world and researchers come from all over the world to see how we do our job. Give us a hand to continue doing it because the data we collect with that instrumentation is fundamental to understanding the phenomenon of bradyseism. At this moment we need everyone's hand".
Article published on 6 June 2024 - 07:02
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