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French Navy collaborates with Guernsey Ports on anti-pollution training exercise
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The French Navy is assisting Guernsey in a marine anti-pollution training exercise designed to improve the island's preparedness for maritime emergencies. The specialist salvage and anti-pollution vessel Bourbon Argonaute will participate in an oil pollution response drill alongside the Guernsey Ports Sarnia workboat.
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- The French Navy and Guernsey Ports are conducting an anti-pollution training exercise on Thursday morning.
- The specialist vessel Bourbon Argonaute is involved in an oil pollution response drill with the Guernsey Ports Sarnia workboat.
- Assistant harbour master Simon Granger stated the exercise maintains Guernsey's preparedness for rare maritime emergencies.
- The exercise tests practical arrangements, including the deployment of floating containment booms to prevent the spread of oil spills.
- The French crew will also perform casualty transfer and towing operations with the St Peter Port lifeboat.