Gabriel Martínez accompanied by Julio Marín and Miguel Agullés during the presentation in Denia (Photo Desirée Tornero)

The director of Marina de Denia, Gabriel Martínez, the head of the Service for the Exploitation and Conservation of Ports of the Generalitat, Julio Marín and the engineer, Miguel Agullés, have presented this morning Meteoport, a pioneering system for the prediction of waves in ports. "Together with Marina de Denia, I have been working for more than a year with this initiative, which has now been implemented thanks, above all, to the support of this port," said Miguel Agullés during the presentation.

"In Marina de Denia we are motivated to help those entrepreneurs who launch innovative ideas and when Michael told us what his tool was, we were clear that we would support him., "said Gabriel Martínez. Marina de Denia is, from this moment on, the first Spanish port to have this service with a clear technological commitment. "Meteoport helps us improve. In each season we will first know the height of wave and we will be able to do much better our prevention work, which results in greater safety for our customers' boats and improves the quality of nautical tourism in Denia. We are the city of the Mediterranean that has the most recreational moorings as a inhabitant and this makes the companies forced to be objective", said the director of the Navy of Denia.

Meteoport is fed daily from the forecast offered by State Ports and moved to the mouth and interior of the port. What he gets is to have at every point the waves that will be with a three-day prediction. This helps to make decisions for the entry / exit of ships in the port and preventive measures. "The wave, where it changes the most, is as we approach the coast and we think it is a very important tool of prevention," said Aguilés. Through the web platform you can see the prediction of wave height so that users can plan their navigation.

Meteoport applications are: service to the port manager and its users of local maritime climate, prevention of damage to ships and increased safety of navigation in port."Denia is not a problematic port, but the mouth is oriented to the dominant temporal and when it happens, things don't paint too well. There is no armored port 100% to the temporary. I congratulate Marina de Denia on this initiative which is doing to improve these safety conditions in preventive terms, giving the possibility to advance the occurrence of these adverse phenomena that may make it impossible for the normal enjoyment of navigation in Denia"Julio Marín is finished.