Published on 04/25/2024
The SeaCleaners association presented the new model of its versatile depollution boat on Thursday in Geneva. Built in Brittany, this Mobula 8.2, which will be sent to Malaysia, can clean an area of 15,000 m2 per hour.
“The boat owes its name to the Mobula ray which filters the water to feed itself,” explains Antoine Iché, operations project coordinator at SeaCleaners. Once the mouth is open at the front of the boat, two concentrator arms rake over a width of 4 meters, sucking up floating waste up to 40 cm deep.
An old buoy drifting along the Plage des Eaux-Vives is thus submerged for this first demonstration outing of the Mobula 8.2 outside Brittany. The waste ends up in a basket in the middle of the boat. This trap is then lifted and emptied on site for initial sorting. Up to 2.3 tonnes of waste can be stored on the boat.
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