Deep-sea fouling of paint coatings in Barents Sea waters
Journal: International Journal of Corrosion and Scale Inhibition
Year: 2024

The fouling of objects immersed in seawater has been studied well enough for shallow depths but there is very little information about fouling at depths of more than 50 meters. In this work, the inhibition effect of a number of antifouling coatings against marine fouling was studied for the first time. The tests were carried out in the Barents Sea at 60 m depth for 15 months. The test specimens with coating systems based on KhV-5286S, “Skat”, and AK-5264 enamels and SKU-PFL-100 polyurethane were