These buoys will be at sea in mid-2023, said the Secretary of State for the Sea, Hervé Berville, explaining that it took “time to build them”.
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Buoys to prevent storms. A week after the deadly winds that hit Corsica and caused the death of five people, the government announced on Thursday August 25 the deployment of five weather buoys to better predict storms and bad weather. “We experienced an exceptional episode of rare violence, but that forces us to put in place the means to be able to better prevent”declared the Secretary of State for the Sea, Hervé Berville.
These buoys will be at sea in mid-2023, specified the Secretary of State, explaining that it was necessary “time to build them”. The buoys will be installed, in consultation with scientists and marine stakeholders, “neither too close nor too far from the Corsican coast”.
Visiting the island on Thursday, after having visited the places most affected by these deadly storms like Girolata (Corse-du-Sud) and Calvi (Haute-Corse), the Secretary of State estimated that it was necessary “adapting to the consequences of climate change, better prevention to better protect the population”. He further asserted that “the State is ready to support the community of Corsica to strengthen the safety of navigation and infrastructure, in particular ports and light anchorages”.
The objective of this trip was also to manage the emergency and to discuss “the question of the evacuation of wrecks, their storage, the fight against pollution or even how to plan the deconstruction of all these wrecks”, detailed the Secretary of State. In Girolata in particular, in the town of Osani, many boats are still stranded on the rocks.