Letter 087

Environmentally friendly anti fouling paint

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Hello, I am working with the Centre for Marine Environmental Initiatives (C-MERITS) and I am researching the marine environment if efforts to find new technologies which will prevent pollution and more damage to the marine environment. One of the topics that I am researching is environmentally friendly anti fouling paint. Is your paint of this caliper and have you heard of such a thing? I think that this may be a new development. If you have any information, it would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

R. Woolgar

I'm Paulo Mora, and search information of the anti fouling paint and your restriction for the use this paint, I need information of the use in aqua culture. Thanks.

Paulo E
- Puerto Montt, Chile

Hello my name is Morgan Owen. I attend the Academy of Environmental Science, in Crystal River Fl. We have to do a science project each year. I am continuing my project I did last year. I also am adding a few things to my project. My project has to do with same.

Sincerely,

Morgan O
Student - Crystal River Florida

We have research info available on 2 systems in response to environmental restrictions on anti fouling paints with specific application to large yacht and ship bottoms in steel, aluminum and GRP.

1) a removal method using non toxic, controlled release of entire bottom coating to bare substrate in a contained manner.

2) recoat with a non toxic, 6 year AAA insured non conductive barrier/antifoul coating. Coating has been tested for 18 years, with no hard growth ever.

Steve H
Savannah,GA USA

The non toxic, metal free anti-fouling paint you are looking for is here! It's has been tested in the tropical waters of Fort Myers Beach, Florida for the past 3 1/2 years with excellent results and is now in the EPA for registration.

No metal content, so no electrolysis, no VOCs except pure water, residue and cleanup water goes in the sewer.

Donald L
Cape Coral, Florida

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Ed. note: Gentlemen, please assist these students if you can by telling them the nature of the products. Presumably you can say something that will useable in their reports without sacrificing trade secrets. Students can't submit ads with no technical content as their projects. Thanks.

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You have several toxic free options, most of them are silicon based. (SeaJet Speed, Hempel's Hempasile, International's Intersleek series etc.) But you should check out the Lefant-series from LOTREC(Sweden).

Knut Idar Hestenes
- Norway