Recently, the Rescue and Salvage Ship (BRS) “Ingeniero Slight” was deployed to carry out maintenance work on maritime signaling in the Chiloé area, an action that contributes to improving safety conditions for vessels that navigate in that maritime sector.
This commission covered the maritime signaling located in the Caucahue channels; Lemuy y Laitec, the Commander of the ship, Lieutenant Commander Pablo Berg specified: “The maritime signaling work in the jurisdiction of Chiloé, between Ancud and Quellón, has been completed, carrying out the inspection and maintenance of six conventional buoys that are in the area. Naturally, with this work we are contributing to the connectivity of these isolated and island places.”
Then the Commander highlighted the work of the crew in the face of the adverse weather conditions of the sector: “this work we carried out was a challenge, because it is not easy to carry out maintenance at this time of year with the weather conditions that are characteristic during the month of July in the jurisdiction, but also, we finished all the work with buoys that were in the annual planning of the Fifth Naval Zone.”
With the materialization of this commission, the Unit and its crew reaffirmed the commitment to one of its main roles and importance for the safety of navigation.