The Suez Canal is one of the most polluted waterways in the world. Port Said is also highly polluted and each year they experience oil spillage. Each year pollutions leaves the Suez Canal clinging to ships on its way into the sea. The City of Suez is located at the top of the Gulf of Suez, north tip of the Red Sea. Suez Bay is an industrial port with lots of traffic carrying petrochemicals, crude oil and fertilizers. The pollution is at a critical point and is an environmental disaster to wildlife. The environment is proving to be quite resilient in many regions, yet this is one area, which is being polluted much faster than remediation counter measures can control it.
I propose that ships which frequent this region or are based in the region be coated with a special coating which will the Suez Bay and Canal as they cruise thru it. We have modern coatings and environmental dispensers, which can do this.
I additionally propose we use Underwater Autonomous Vehicles (AUVs) to clean some of the underwater and bottom areas of the Bay of Suez and Canal by delivering encapsulated timed release bio-remediation materials; we may find that we can clean the large volume of water very quickly. We would have to set up the AUVs in an underwater grid pattern and they could run on Solar Power and Electricity or Hydrogen Cell Hybrid Systems.
Then each Ship would get given “Tax break” in fees for passage and use of the regional ports and on registration and fees from the Country of Origin for the Flag it flies. Additionally each ship would have boxes on board with encapsulated timed released pellets. These pellets would be made of spongy material, which would not hurt the ship hulls of vessels, which might bump into them as they float. The spongy material would have oil and chemical eating bacterium in them. This spongy material would also be made very distasteful to birds, fish, sea life and wildlife; yet would clean the water. These pellets would be dropped into the water anytime there was a slight leakage from their ship. Timed released biological and environmental remediation is nothing new, many environmental engineers use this to help reduce large algae blooms which threaten drinking water supplies, affect water quality or are a danger to sea life. Think on this.
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