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D. Jacinto Agustín Antón de Vez Ayala Duarte EL PAÍS culture journalist Brief curriculum of the speaker: Mr. Jacinto Agustín Antón de Vez Ayala Duarte (Barcelona 1957) has been a culture journalist for EL PAIS for 30 years. He has compiled his chronicles and other texts of him On Pilots, Alligators, and Other Extraordinary Adventures and Heroes, Adventurers, and Cowards. He collaborates in SER with the anthropologist Inocente and in TVE he made El reporter de la historia. Graduated in Journalism and Dramatic Art, he practices fencing and bird watching and lives with a snake.

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MAR-1 project: Galicia’s plan to rescue his fishermen

Your objective is to rescue inshore boat fishermen whose boats suffer from any kind of problem. It is called MAR-1 and it is a project developed mostly by Galician companies, led by IMATIA and with Vodafone connectivity. The pilot project has been launched in the Ría de Arosa and consists of two drone nests, an autonomous seaplane and a rescue boat that can be manned remotely. The drones are located in ‘nests’ from which they are launched through drive platforms when they receive an alert of a possible incident at sea. The objective of these aircraft is to determine if the alert is real, and to assess the problem. They have cameras that send the images to a control center where everything that happens with the boats that are integrated into the system is evaluated. Their autonomy is ten hours ...

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The world’s first 3D printed fiberglass boat

Mambo (Motor Additive Manufacturing Boat), from the young Italian company Moi Composites Srl, shows a new and uniquely shaped boat that cannot be achieved with traditional manufacturing. It was digitally produced in patented 3D printing technology, Continuous Fiber Manufacturing (CFM), an innovative system that, thanks to the use of robots guided by experts by generative algorithms, allows 3D printing of continuous fiber composite materials. CFM technology involves the use of robotic machines, capable of depositing continuous fibers impregnated with thermosetting resin to create products with optimized performance, based on a three-dimensional model of the object. This allows the creation of fiber-reinforced products with mechanical characteristics comparable to unidirectional fiberglass, without the aid of models, molds, and other tooling equipment. In this way, it is possible to obtain not only prototypes, but real products in small batches or unique pieces, efficiently ...

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Navantia will build a high-altitude patrol boat in Cádiz for the Royal Moroccan Navy

Navantia has obtained a contract with the Royal Moroccan Navy to design and build a high-altitude patrol boat that will mean one million hours of work for the shipyards in the Bay of Cádiz, about 250 jobs over the next three and a half years. The Underwater Intervention Maritime Action Vessel (BAM-IS) for the Spanish Navy will also be built in these same shipyards. Morocco communicated in April the specifications of the contract for the construction of the patrol boat, in which shipyards from several countries were interested. Navantia presented its offer in August and a team from the company traveled to Morocco to negotiate the technical and commercial aspects. The contract announced today by the Minister of Finance María Jesús Montero, during a visit to the San Fernando shipyard, includes the design of the ship. Once the engineering works ...

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