Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 08/2012
From a fixed structure to a floating approach
TROPOS The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) is an initiative whose main objective is the design and construction of a fixed offshore platform for research and innovation in marine science and technology. In the following article, PLOCAN’s Eduardo Quevedo, Joaquín Hernández, Raquel Fernández, Eric Delory, Ayoze Castro and Octavio Llinás, and Johanna Wesnigk of MARUM (Center for Marine Environmental Sciences) at the University of Bremen give an overview of the TROPOS project. Funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research, TROPOS aims to develop a modular multi-use platform for exploitation in deep waters, with a focus on the Mediterranean, tropical and subtropical regions.