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The site offers a series of videos featuring the Port School, Maritime Rescue and the Barcelona Harbourmaster, as well as meteorologist Tomàs Molina.
Each video features nautical experts explaining what to do if caught by an unexpected change in the weather out at sea, an increasingly common scenario owing to global warming
Global warming is causing the weather in Catalonia to become increasingly tropical. According to experts, this means weather conditions are becoming much more variable and unpredictable. This change is more conducive to the appearance of new weather phenomena which can pose a safety risk to vessels at sea.
In view of this new reality, the Olympic Port has launched a new website with videos where different experts in nautical matters offer advice on how to act when caught by an abrupt change in weather conditions out at sea. This initiative by the Olympic Port enjoys the collaboration of the Port School, Maritime Rescue and the Barcelona Harbourmaster, as well as meteorologist Tomàs Molina.
There are five videos in all, featuring nautical training professionals from the Port School, based at the Olympic Port. Each video gives advice such as the best order to gather in sails in the middle of a storm, how to sail in adverse conditions or what to do in an emergency while sailing. There’s also an introduction by meteorologist Tomàs Molina, explaining the importance of planning sea trips.
Olympic Port: under transformation and committed to popular nautical activity
This project is another example of the changes being implemented to turn the Olympic Port into a new city space committed to nautical activity. Barcelona City Council is currently carrying out a major transformation of the Olympic Port through Barcelona de Serveis Municipals (B:SM). The goal is to make the port into a space where the blue economy, sport, nautical pursuits and gastronomy are at the centre of social and economic activity. These changes are starting to become visible and are progressing at a good pace, with the America’s Cup on the horizon.
In the nautical sphere, one of the aims for the Olympic Port is to revitalise the activity of the operators based there, helping to develop synergies and foster the emergence of new activities and collaboration projects with marine dissemination as the common thread.