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JOHN THURGOOD ON HOW THE CAT S60 IS MAKING
HERZLIYA MARINA A SAFER PLACE
Thursday, September 08, 2016
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Location: Herzliya Marina, Israel
Date: Friday 2 September 2016
I was fortunate to meet Amir Zander (Herzliya Port Manager) and Eyal
Harush (Herzliya Harbour Maintenance Manager) today at Herzliya Marina. I
had been introduced by a partner of ours in Israel and I wanted to know
about their work a little more and to understand the challenges they face on
a daily basis.
Little did I know that just the previous evening there was an incident in the
waters very close to the hotel I was staying at. I could see the flares being
used to help locate objects and to warn traffic in the area but at the time
had no idea what was going on as I contemplated the universe with a
colleague of mine whilst tucking into another delicious round of hummus.
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As it transpired, this would be one of the main topics of conversation today.
Unfortunately, what had happened was that a swimmer had run into
difficulties with a rip-tide and the commotion that ensued was the
authorities attempting to locate and recover the swimmer. Sadly this time a
life was unable to be saved, and as well as lamenting the impact of this on
their family and loved ones, it made me think about the incident and
whether the thermal capabilities of the Cat S60 could assist.
Eyal had mentioned that he felt the thermal capabilities might provide an
additional way to easily and quickly identify and aid situations like these
where rapid response is required, and the technology in the Cat S60 could
help. He felt to have this kind of technology in a smartphone was unique
and unequaled.
In future I hope the Cat S60 can help in locating people in distress at sea. It
also reminded me of cases closer to home where in the UK it seems that
an unprecedented number of deaths have occurred this year related to rip-
tides. Indeed, just recently such an incident occurred in Camber Sands,
Kent which is close to where I have family.
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Amir is in the process of testing the Cat S60 now for this purpose and
other interesting harbour-based uses: such as when there was a burst
water pipe within the harbour wall but no easy way of determining the
whereabouts of the leak. Amir and Eyal with the help of Lior managed to
use the thermal imaging of the Cat S60 to clearly show where the
temperature difference was in the harbour wall and used this to work out
where to dig and repair. The costly and long-winded alternative was to
manually dig in different places until they found the problem.
Eyal goes through over 5 smartphones every 6 months (yes, 6 months!),
so apart from the fact that they needed a ruggedised device capable of
surviving long periods underwater and with long battery life, the thermal
imaging of the FLIR camera was extremely useful.®
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To the Emergency services (and harbour teams) wherever they may be,
thank you for looking after us.
Thanks to Amir and Eyal at Herzliya Marina: 1 Hatsedef St, PO Box 9,
Herzliya 46764. http://www.herzliya-marina.co.il (http://www.herzliya-
marina.co.il)
Additional thanks to Sergey Pazdnikov of aquamarina (aquamarina.co.il)
