Highest number of DOVO interventions on the coast in five years

Highest number of DOVO interventions on the coast in five years

The number of interventions that DOVO carried out in 2021 in the province of West Flanders also remains higher than in all other Belgian provinces combined. During the past five years, the municipality of Middelkerke has been a leader in the number of interventions. “No fewer than 326 interventions were made,” says MP Peter Buysrogge (N-VA). This is followed by Nieuwpoort with 201 interventions and Koksijde with 127 interventions.

Fewer sea mines

“It is remarkable that the number of destroyed sea mines has fallen sharply,” explains provincial councilor Kurt Himpe (N-VA). Twelve more sea mines were destroyed in 2017, five were defused in 2018 and just one in 2019. No naval mines have been defused in our territorial waters for the past two years. These destructions by DOVO happened without a robot, by the way.”

No data is available on the cost of the operations.

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