First evacuation exercise by helicopter on a wind turbine in France

Risk prevention is critical in the field of Marine Renewable Energies (MRE). Evacuation drills during offshore operations on floating wind turbine demonstrators give all players involved the opportunity to test the emergency response and help ensure that this growing sector is fully prepared.

For this evacuation exercise, the CROSS Etel, the Sécurité Civile, the SNSM, BW Ideol and Centrale Nantes defined a hypothetical potential scenario: operator injury during a maintenance operation on the offshore wind turbine.

The PIM FLOATGEN (Maritime Intervention Plan) was triggered and the emergency response got underway. The specific characteristics of a floating wind turbine during a helicopter evacuation could thus be assessed via this exercise in real conditions, in particular those of the Floatgen project float concept developed by BW Ideol, in order to prepare possible medical evacuations by air.
 

Watch the video footage of the exercise: