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NO
US military personnel
in Europe: 69,300.
600 US combat
troops sent to
Poland, Estonia,
Latvia and
Lithuania
*
E-3 Sentry
AWACS
DENMARK
5
UK
Atlantic
Ocean
ESTONIA
1
L AT V I A
2
GERMANY P O L A N D
34
6
PORTUGAL
FRANCE
LITHUANIA
9
I TA LY
Mediterranean Sea
GREECE
10
Kiev
UKRAINE
7
R O M A N I A Black
Sea
S PA I N
NATO members
RUSSIA
Russian military
personnel: 845,000
40,000 troops
massed on border
with eastern
Ukraine
Moscow
11
8
TURKEY
Crimea: Russia’s
Black Sea Fleet
comprises around
40 frontline warships
*NATO partner Airborne Early Warning
1 Estonia: Four Danish F-16 fighters
operating out of Ämarí Air Base
7 Romania: Six Canadian CF-18
fighters, six US F-16s
2 Lithuania: Two Swedish Gripen C,
four Polish MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters,
and four UK Typhoon FGR4 fighters
operating out of Siaulíaí Air Base
8 Black Sea: NATO naval presence
includes guided missile frigate
USS Taylor, French frigate Dupleix
and French signals intelligence ship
Dupuy de Lome
3 Poland: 12 U.S. F-16s, four French
Rafale fighters to Malbork Air Base
4 Baltics: Surveillance flights over
NATO border territory by British,
French, US, and NATO’s Sentry
AWACS aircraft
5 Denmark: Two F-16s on standby
6 Czech Republic: Four Gripen C
fighters on standby
9 Belarus: Up to 24 Su-27 Flanker
fighters plus A-50 AEW† deployed
to Baranovichi Air Base
Russia: Su-24 Fencer and
Su-34 Fullback strike aircraft seen
at Buturlinovka Air Base
10
11 Russia: Up to 55 Su-25 Frogfoot
ground attack aircraft and 18 SU-27s
at Primorsko-Akhtarsk Air Base
Sources: IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly, IISS, www.military.com
Graphic News/©Gulf News
Move follows
Southeast Asian
sultanate’s enactment
of sharia law
Beverly Hills
T
he tiny, oil-rich country of Brunei has been
a quiet steward of the
Beverly Hills Hotel and Hotel
Bel-Air, undertaking multimillion-dollar renovations of
the landmarks.
But in recent days both hotels have come under siege
from Hollywood feminists
and gay rights advocates
because of new laws in the
Southeast Asian sultanate.
Brunei last week imposed
new criminal codes, based on
Islamic law, with harsh penalties for homosexuality and
adultery, including death by
stoning.
Organisers have abruptly cancelled several events
planned for the Beverly Hills
Hotel, and big names such
as Ellen DeGeneres, Richard Branson and Sharon Osbourne have vowed on social
media to stay away and urged
others to do the same.
On Monday, Jay Leno joined
the chorus of condemnation at a demonstration along
Sunset Boulevard across from
the Beverly Hills Hotel.
“This is 2014, not 1814,”
Leno, the former ‘Tonight
Show’ host, told dozens of
protesters.
The protests have put Bev-
erly Hills civic and business
leaders in a delicate position,
trying to balance opposition
to the laws with support for a
local cultural monument and
economic engine.
On Tuesday, the Beverly
Hills City Council is slated to
consider a resolution condemning the Brunei laws.
The resolution “is not in
any way a statement against
the Beverly Hills Hotel ...
which is a pillar of our community,” said Beverly Hills
Mayor Lili Bosse. “It’s about
the ownership and its lack of
concern for justice and human rights.”
Christopher Cowdray, the
hotel group’s chief executive,
said in an interview that the
boycotts and protests were
misguided and potentially
harmful to the city of Beverly
Hills.
“They won’t stop the implementation of the new
laws,” he said, but rather
would “only hurt the [hotel’s]
employees.” He added there
were no plans to sell the hotels.
The Beverly Hills Hotel employs about 600 people, and
the Hotel Bel-Air, roughly
400. Cowdray added that the
Beverly Hills Hotel pays about
$7 million (Dh25 million) in
bed taxes and $4 million in
city taxes annually.
Hotel representatives Monday greeted the dozens of
protesters cordially and offered them cookies and bottles of water.
The most expensive search in the aviation history has been fruitless
so far but the efforts will continue. This is a deep look on the main
hi-tech devices used until now and its participation in this quest.
Relevant events on the deep sea search
Separated signals
were detected by
the Towed Pinger
Locator deployed
behind the Australian
ship Ocean Shield.
The first signal lasted
about two hours and
20 minutes and a
second one were
detected for 13 min.
approximately.
90cm
35kg
April
6
The AUV Bluefin 21
was deployed for the
first time for a 24h
mission, but it had to
return after just 6h,
due to it reached its
deep limit of 4.5km.
The autonomous
underwater vehicle
(AUV), completed
its first complete
mission, searched
over an area of 56.33
square kilometers.
Underwater
Locator
Beacon
14
The robotic sub had
to be reprogrammed
to get into deeper
areas. For the first
time ever, the
Bluefin 21 reached
4.695 meters.
The second signal
was heard in form of
two distinct pinger
returns, consistent
with transmissions
from black boxes.
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18
21
The UAV completed
about 50 per cent
of the 314.16 square
kilometers area. No
contacts of interest
have been found until
this point.
This information
allowed to delimitate
the initial underwater
search area as a
10km radius circle
(314.16 sq km).
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Over the 50th day of
the MH370 search, in
its 14th mission, the
Bluefin faced its
second technical
problem; a software
failure.
Signal 1
Possible new
phase extended
search
May
Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott
announced that the search will enter into a
‘new phase’ after the Bluefin finished the
scanning of the deep sea terrain without any
result. The new area will span 700km by
80km, could take between 8 to 12 months to
be examined, with a cost of $60 million.
Navigation
& propulsion
3
Experts met in Canberra
AU to analyse all data
available in an effort to
corroborate that have
been accurately
interpreted and
determine what’s next.
2,000m
1,960m
The highest point of the
first search area in the
Zenith Plateau
53cm
Power
Sonnar
& storage
12
6
3,000m
3,900m
Air France flight AF447
wreckage found
13
4,000m
8
To get an idea of this
depth, just imagine the
height of almost six
stacked Burj Khalifa
POWER UNIT
6 Lock-on belts
Keep the modular pieces on place to
form a solid structure.
7 Custom molded filler piece
5 Titanium oil-filled vessel
Protects the electronic components
(navigation in this unit) against the
extreme pressures on the deep sea.
9
A
B
A 24h mission for the aquatic robot,
consist in the following tasks:
Two hours to get near the ocean
4h floor and another two hours to
return to the surface.
16h To map the ocean floor via sonar
devices to collect data. Around
90 sq km per day.
4h To analyze the information.
Bluefin bottom view
SONNAR & STORAGE UNIT
(The following assets belong to the US Navy)
Orion
Towed side scan sonar which can transmit
data in realtime under the 6000m. It's
said that can scan as wide as 3000m
but this sacrifices image resolution.
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9 Custom molded filler piece
10 Titanium oil-filled vessels for
the sonars
RECOVERY UNIT
13 Lift point
12 4gb storage module
Is basically a flash drive device,
which is connected to a computer
to download all the mission data
and begin the analysis with the
specialized software.
14 Recovery line
When the Bluefin comeback to
the surface, it detaches a portion of
its nose which is connected to a line.
This ‘floating anchor’ facilitates the
recovery of the vehicle.
The vehicle scans
the areas in a
‘lawn mower’
pattern
5,000m
14
11 Data storage process unit
The image quality
is proportional
inverse to the wide
of the sonar beam
4,695m
Bluefin 21 max. depth.
The Bluefin CEO David
Kelly compares the
presion at this depth as
“equivalent to a Cadillac
Escalade balanced on
your thumbnail”
Approximate the
deepest point in the
Zenith Plateau area
Zenit Plateau
6,000m
Remus 6000, Orion
and Remora 6000
maximum depth
Image not in
real size
100km
Sonar image sample of the Zenith
Plateau in the Indian Ocean
A SIDE SCAN SONAR (SSS)
The side scan emits fan-shaped acoustic pulses toward the seafloor
in a wide angle. The intensity on the reflection of these pulses over
the terrain are recorded and interpreted to create high quality
images with the sound basically. During the last month the
Bluefin has scanned approximately 400 sq km.
Time to add some assets
Australian, Malaysian and Chinese
officials met on May 7 in an effort to plan
the expanded search. Over the next
weeks, new equipment of towed sonars
and UAV’s would be deployed to join the
Bluefin 21 in the massive task.
Which could be the possible options?
4,500-4,800m
The possible deep of the black box
devices according the pulses detected
by the towed pinger locator on April 6
10
Research
capabilities
With the absence of light
and extreme conditions in
the deep sea, the sonars
are the tool of choice to
create maps of the seabed.
Right now this is the way
the researchers looking for
the flight MH370 wreckage
are analysing unexplored
areas, looking desperately
for any sign of the airplane’s
body and the valuable black
box devices.
3,840m
Titanic wreckage
Recovery
7
4 Custom molded filler piece
31114868_1.1
1,402m
The towed pinger locator
was set at this depth,
dragged by the Ocean
Shield ship
The robotic submarine is a modular structure formed by swappable units with different
payloads to adapt the device configuration for a variety of missions.
8 Subsea batteries
Nine fully waterproof and
pressure-tolerant lithium batteries,
give to the Bluefin autonomy for 25
hours moving at 5.5 km/h.
www.indigoproperties.ae
1,000m
$
2
3 The Blue Tailcone
Articulated thruster, which provides
propulsion and stability to the AUV.
ISO 9001:2008 certified | RERA ORN: 347
828m
Burj Khalifa
7
4.93m
1
2 Dual-frequency GPS/ radio
frecuency/ Iridium satelite
network antenna
Excellence is the passion to do things extraordinarily well. To risk
more than others think is safe. To dream more than others think is
practical. To care more than others think is wise. To expect more
than you think is possible. Which is why in today's world, excellence
is indeed rare.
500Km
Max. depth Autonomy
Speed
Weight Cost per day MH370 missions
4695m
25 hours 8.33km/h 750kg
$40,000
16 so far
1 Strobe light
ORDINARY IS EVERYWHERE.
EXCELLENCE IS RARE.
318m
World record for deepest
dive on SCUBA
Perth
Final satelite
handshake
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Over the new phase in the search for the flight MH370 black box devices, this piece of
technology will continue in service for the mapping via sonar in the Zenith Plateau area on
the Indian Ocean. The Bluefin is a torpedo-shaped autonomous vehicle which fills with
water when it is submerged. The free-flooded device, interconnects all its elements by wet
cables and the electronic components are protected by individual pressure-compensated
vessels. Its hull is made of ABS plastic, a terpolymer known by its impact resistance,
toughness and electrical insulation properties.
NAVIGATION & PROPULSION UNIT
OF EXCELLENCE
200m
About 90% of all marine
life lives in the top of this
depth
The Bluefin 21 anatomy
5
YEARS
0m level of sea
AUSTRALIA
Signal 2
10km radius
initial search
5Km
4
CELEBRATING
The first stage was determined by the pulses detected by the
towed pinger locator. These signals came from the ocean
floor between 4.5-4.8 km below the surface. To get the real
magnitude of how deep is this, let's compare it against other
known things.
Indian Ocean
Two signals detected
on April 6
Detail area
A23
How deep is the MH370 debris?
A MONUMENTAL TASK
km
place
F-15 Eagle
F-16 Fighting Falcon
Islamic laws in
Brunei spark pro-
THE SEARCH FOR THE MH370 GOES TO THE NEXT STAGE
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Remus 6000
UAV which is basically the same as the
Bluefin 21 but it can go deeper at 6000
m. In 2011 it found the black boxes of
the crashed Air France flight AF447.
Sources: Bluefin Robotics, US Navy, Honeywell ED-55 Flight Data Recording System, NOC, WAashington Post, National Post, Reuters, Graphic News
What
happen if
they finally
find the
black box
devices?
B HI RESOLUTION CAMERA
If the sonar detects an object of
interest during the data analysis, the
Bluefin comes back loaded with a hd
black and white camera to obtain
images and corroborate what was
detected.
7,000m
Remora 6000
They could send a robot like
this, a towed device which
was involved on the Air
France flight recovery in
2011. Two precise mechanical
arms can put the black box
devices into a basket to be
finally retrieved.
Photos: Supplied, www.deepreef.com
The assets are subjected to availability
because these are pieces of
technology really limited in number.
Contracts, calculations and analysis
must be done before transport any
equipment to the Indian Ocean for the
second stage of the search. That will
take several weeks to be arranged.
Hugo A. Sanchez/©Gulf News