Crashed yacht in Gdańsk. Serious questions about the security of our country

On Wednesday morning, at the breakwater of the North Port in Gdańsk there was a serious accident involving a yacht.Milou. The helm, flowing alone from Kołobrzeg, fell overboard about 4mm from the shore.

Milou – a ghost yacht on a course to port

For nearly an hour he drifted in the water before being spotted and taken up by the dredger crewVox Alexia, then transferred to the rescue unitWind. Fortunately, he was conscious, friends of sailors wrote in the forums that he was alive, but he went to the hospital with signs of cooling.

At the same time, his yacht, devoid of a pilot, did not stop or be intercepted. The carrying course entered straight into the approach toNorth Portand with momentum hit the breakwater structure. The unit was severely damaged and settled in a hydrotechnical obstacle. The very fact that such an event may have occurred in the immediate vicinity of the strategic port illustrates a serious gap in the surveillance and response system.

Serious gap in critical infrastructure security

This accident ended with taking the helm out of the water, but opened far more dangerous questions than the sailing issues themselves. How is it that no one has responded to the time of a unit going alone towards a strategic port? Experts warn: an identical scenario could apply to a motorboat with an autopilot and introduced waypoints. Instead of sailing 5 knots like a yacht, it would hit port pools at 30 knots, carrying, for example, two tons of explosive charge. This is not a vision from a sensational film – this is how every modern chartplotter with an autopilot works.

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Meanwhile, the available solutions already exist. Ports should operate on the basis of so-called sea safety circles – imposed on navigational maps with the requirement to establish communication, continuously monitored in two spheres above and under water and actively defended. Each unit entering such a zone shall be immediately classified, monitored and contacted. No response should trigger a layer reaction:fast unmannedInterceptors, diversions move off the red, push the beak on course "in the sea", flying drones conduct visual observation of the deck and the bridge, and a helicopter with a boarding team of Formozy ready to board enters the air.

Szczecin Barakuda vs Real Threats

They're not pure theories. In Szczecin, the Polish project of the rapid drone of the sea-wide Barakud is being developed for such tasks. It's a unit that can take over and disable a threat depending on the risk zone, including damage and sinking of an enemy object. On a further approach, it can take over the object, brake it, and direct it to a designated shoal, where it itself settles.If activemaneuvering can use weapons, disable the drive and push the target to the shallow for further recognition. Emergency — right in front of the port infrastructure — There is no more room for half means: the unit is destroyed before it can hit the target.

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In the event of conducting search and rescue operations, the Polish unmanned Barakuda system takes the SAR equipment and thermal imaging camera in the company of unmanned flying systems, searches for the survivor and gives him immediate assistance by taking on board after the administration of water rescue devices.

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The Barakuda project is not a drone – it is a system prepared for strategic integration into maritime security.

What happened in Gdańsk should not be treated as an ordinary sailing accident. It's a warning. Combined with the incident of thisthe same day in Osinach, where an unidentified object fell and exploded on the corn field, reveals painful truth: Poland still does not have effective supervision or tools for immediate response.

"The Ghost Yacht" in Polish waters – a warning, not an accident

A ghost yacht hitting the strategic breakwater port and an unmanned system falling into our country, 100 km from the border, point to the same weakness – the state does not see everything that happens around us.

These episodes are alarm signals that a security breach can be used at the worst possible time. Not only can – it will.