Esperanza del Mar
IMO: 9220536
The Esperanza del Mar [ espeɾanθa del maɾ ] (Spanish for "hope of the Sea" ), call sign " EBUQ " is a hospital ship owned by the Instituto Social de la Marina ( ISM), which, on behalf of the Spanish Ministry of Labour health for the supply of members of the Spanish fishing fleet is responsible directly to the lake. The ship was put into service in 2001 and is mainly on the West African Atlantic coast in use. It is globally one of the largest in use hospital ships and probably the largest, which was built from the start specifically for this purpose and is not based on the conversion of another type of ship.
History
The Esperanza del Mar was launched in October 2001 and took in mid-November the regular operation. So you took over from her eponymous predecessor ship, which had been built in 1977 as a container freighter and converted to a hospital ship in 1982. In contrast was the starting point for the design of the new vessel, to design from scratch a floating hospital. It was built by the shipping company Juliana Constructora Gijonesa SA in Gijón. The construction costs were approximately 21 million euros, of which about 20 percent were applied by aid from the European Union. The home port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
In the 25 years 1982-2007 about 27,500 sick or injured persons have been on both ships, which were at that time under the name of Esperanza del Mar in use, supplied. Around 1,300 people have been rescued from drowning, including around 500 African refugees. Approximately 8,000 times made the crew, logistical assistance for a total of 3,300 ships. In 2006, a smaller sister ship the Esperanza del Mar was put into service under the name of Juan de la Cosa, which is predominantly north-west of the Iberian peninsula in the north Atlantic in use.
Equipment
The Esperanza del Mar is based on a reinforced hull and is 97.34 meters long and 17.7 meters wide. It reaches a top speed of about 17 knots. Gastronomic centers include an operating room, an intensive care unit, an X- station, a pharmacy, a special ward for the treatment of burn victims, a quarantine station, a station for the mentally ill, a fridge and a helipad on board. The room also includes various devices for technical assistance, including towing and fire fighting equipment, oil booms and on auger and equipment for underwater repairs. For rescue the Esperanza del Mar is a daughter boat that offers 17 needy people and three crewmembers, and reaches a speed of 32 knots, and have various other rescue boats and liferafts five for a total of 60 people.
On the ship a maximum of 17 sick or injured persons in the hospital area and up to 30 shipwrecked persons can be accommodated in a special care area. Both areas are largely isolated from the rest of the ship. The crew includes including medical staff, which consists of two teams of two doctors and a nurse, a total of 41 people. Besides Seefunkkontakt and a telephone and fax the ship also offers the opportunity to communicate with appropriately equipped vessels via a satellite-based videoconferencing system. About the same system, the technical support is available by specialists on land.
Area of application
Main application of the Esperanza Del Mar is the Atlantic Ocean along the West African coast between Morocco or Mauritania and Ghana. Here are during the fishing season about 300 Spanish ships with a total of about 5,000 crew members in action. In addition to medical assistance be delivered to other vessels with the ship in this area also food and other supplies.