28 Aug, 2025 @ 10:46
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RoboCop of the sea launched to patrol Menorca´s coastline

THE Balearic Government has rolled out a new secret weapon to keep its shores in check – a James Bond-style spy robot that can dive 300 metres beneath the waves.

Unveiled in Fornells, Menorca, the underwater gizmo – a CHASING M2 PRO ROV – is kitted out with high-def cameras and military-style sonar, beaming back live footage as it hunts out dodgy boaters, illegal moorings and damage to protected seagrass.

Dubbed the ‘RoboCop of the sea’, the machine joins a growing coastal army that already boasts 22 patrol boats, a drone, and inspectors with the power to slap fines on rule-breakers.

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And it seems they’ve got plenty to do – since June, officials have logged 82 breaches of nautical law across the Balearics, from expired paperwork to rogue charters.

Politicians hailed the new tech as a ‘game-changer’ for protecting marine life. But locals reckon it’ll also put the frighteners on careless skippers who treat the Med like their personal playground.

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Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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