Diagnostics in ballast water management

Abstract

Diagnostics in ballast water management is the main remedy to protect against the threat of spreading invasive species that can be carried in ships' ballast tanks. This phenomenon is getting better known and understood. New and more effective methods of preventing threats related to this are being developed. Procedures are created to ensure environmental safety in the face of ever-increasing transport by sea. The article characterizes both the background of the problem, basic diagnostic medics used in ballast water management, as well as procedures and basic techniques used to ensure the safety of the natural environment..

‘Harce’, or Single Combat before the Battle

“…41 In the entry from 1524, chronicler Marcin Bielski wrote that at Rohatyn besieged by the Turks "one Turkish invader, having ridden out to harc, lured our knights; one willing man stepped out to face him: Prince Mikołaj Zamoyski, son of Florian from Skokówka, of the Jelita coat of arms, got ahead of him and knocked the Turk off his horse and won." 42 This account vividly matches the adventures of the protagonist Colonel Michał Wołodyjowski described by Henryk Sienkiewicz on the pages of his historical novel With Fire and Sword (Polish: Ogniem i mieczem).…”