The Tourist Centers have awarded Oceomic, Marine bio and technology SL a new project of "scientific and informative sensorization" in the underwater museum for more than a quarter of a million euros. This was announced by the CACT in a statement, in which they refer to the awardee as "a young company", created in Fuerteventura in 2012, "that develops, manufactures and markets innovative equipment for marine sciences and biotechnology".
With this new investment in the Atlantic Museum, located next to the illegal Marina Rubicón marina, they state that they intend to "measure different variables that will contribute to assessing the impact of human action on the marine ecosystems of the islands".
In addition, they add that "this coastal Observatory will allow us to understand the behavior and evolution of the climate in an extremely complex general context; increase safety at sea; disseminate the heritage value of the area and improve the conservation and sustainability of the Atlantic Museum to promote new initiatives, research projects and scientific actions".
The project has a budget of 254,535 euros from the Canary Islands Development Fund (FDCAN) and, they point out, will have the collaboration of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Three observation points
"The observation system that Oceomic, marine bio and technology SL will deploy in the Atlantic Museum will respond to values related to meteorology, oceanography and marine biogeochemistry", they argue from the Tourist Centers. To this end, they explain that the company "will use three observation points, one main anchoring point, which will support the meteorological station and the underwater sensors; a secondary anchoring point, which will support the underwater image and sound observation system, and a mobile buoy, which will serve as support for a multiparameter probe and an underwater camera".
According to the CACT, "the results of the monitoring of these measurement points will contribute to a better understanding of the coastal ecosystems of the Canary Islands and will provide information for their conservation, use and sustainable management". At the same time, they argue that "they will be of great value to understand the effect of anthropogenic processes in the local area, in particular, those caused by climate change and pollution" and that "the information generated will be integrated into larger-scale observation programs in the regional area and, in general, in the observation of the Atlantic".
