Intelligent floats for the safe mooring of turists
Resinex is the name for the new frontier of intelligent tourism, that chosen by those who visit the Italian maritime parks in absolute safety and complete respect for the environment, our company has supplied and installed the signalling and mooring systems, from the summer of 2006. The MarPark project (www.marpark.it), created by Em-Sailing, starting with an international patent of the Italgest Mare Company, got underway in the marine area of Cinque Terre (www.areamarinaprotetta5terre.it) and in Capo Carbonara reserve of Villasimius, Sardinia (www.ampcapocarbonara.it).
It is a telematic system for the planned and controlled mooring of pleasure craft in most distinguished marine areas based on mooring buoys able to recognize the (booked) user and also to transmit any abuses to a central operation centre and so protecting the environment from damage caused by anchoring and excessive tourism. Resinex supplied the small offshore tourist floating materials where only authorised craft can dock. Every mooring is formed by floating buoy with a little fender to protect the docking craft and is anchored to the bottom by a system with a low impact on the environment (above all in the area of Cinque Terre where was necessary to protect the posidonia and the pioneer coral species, particularly vulnerable to anchors) and maintained in tension by a jumper. The metal parts are all in stainless steel.
MarPark: booking by telephone or via internet
But how does the MarPark system work in practice (www.marpark.it)? One can reserve a buoy either through internet or by telephone, indicating the moorage period and size of craft, which for the moment can not be more than 24 metres. After having received the access code, a ring shaped seapass will be sent to one’s residence (or collected on arrival) and must be placed at the top where the boat is tied up; the buoy interfaces telematically with ring, communicating the access code via a modem to the control centre and so the permission to dock.
