The Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (ISU) Delta will purchase an underwater drone through a project funded under the Interreg Romania-Ukraine programme, this being the first of its kind to be added to the state institution's equipment, inform Agerpres.
The underwater drone will be use in place of professional divers, both for the inspection of protection dams of the localities located along the Danube or the Danube Delta and for the rescue of people involved in naval accidents or events involving small vessels.
"It is one of the few drones to be part of the equipment of the inspectorates for emergency situations, it is an absolutely necessary search and rescue tool, because in the last period we are confronted with many challenges in this aquatic environment, challenges which usually end in tragedies," the chief inspector of the ISU Delta, Colonel Daniel Petrov told a news conference on Thursday.
Through the project called " Joint response in cases of fires, floods in hard-to-reach areas and search and rescue interventions," the ISU Delta will also purchase two intervention and rescue boats, the County Police Inspectorate will purchase a boat with the same profile, while the Main Directorate of Ukraine's State Emergency Service in the Odessa region will be equipped with a bimodal off-road vehicle, fitted with fire extinguishing, search and rescue equipment, as well as with a vehicle designed for transporting personnel and victims in emergency situations.
"The civil protection vehicle which will be purchased by the Ukrainian partner can be modularly equipped for different type of risks. Using this equipment during wartime involves participating in search-rescue missions. Most of the missions currently carried out are related to the search and rescue of persons trapped under rubble as a result of some explosions caused by various causes. It is a civil protection equipment, not militarized and used for the search and rescue of people," the head of the External Funding Projects Directorate within the Inspectorate General for Emergency Situations (IGSU), Colonel Alin Maghiar mentioned.
Within the news conference, the deputy chief of the Main Directorate of Ukraine's State Emergency Service in the Odessa region, Colonel Oleksandr Zahurskyi brought to mind that within the project previously carried out in partnership with the ISU Delta Tulcea, the institution he represents purchased an extrication vehicle which is currently used in Izmail, in order to save people from the buildings bombed by Russia.
"In the previous project, we purchased a specialized extrication vehicle for saving the population which is already used in Izmail, in the context of the war. The collaboration with the partners in Romania is very important, but we need more equipment for interventions on water and land to save people," Colonel Oleksandr Zahurskyi mentioned.
According to the ISU Delta, the project "Joint response in cases of fires, floods in hard-to-reach areas and search and rescue interventions" is the second of its kind carried out since 2020 until now, with another Romanian-Ukrainian initiative in the area set to be officially presented within a conference on Friday.
The Danube Delta has a total area of approximately 4,455 square kilometers, with 84 percent lying within Romanian territory.
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