Floating barriers, wave machines, nets …
2.10.2020: BBC: Asylum seekers: UK considered floating barriers in Channel
The government looked into putting floating barriers in the English Channel to stop asylum seekers crossing to the UK, a leaked document shows.
The Home Office approached the trade group Maritime UK over the possible use of temporary “marine fencing”, in a request for ideas sent over the summer.
This, it said, must be able to “prevent a slow-moving, heavily overloaded migrant boat from making progress”.
The government said it did not “comment on leaks”.
But Maritime UK told the BBC it was its “clear view” that building a wall in the Channel was “not legally possible” under the terms of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea.
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Meanwhile, the Times has reported that other proposals drawn up by the Home Office include the use of a water cannon in the Channel to create waves to push back vessels.
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11.10.2020 BBC: Migrant crisis: Dinghies to UK could be ‘disabled using nets’
A plan to use nets to stop dinghies carrying migrants across the English Channel is being considered by the government, it has been reported. [Read more]