Marine paints: The particular case of antifouling paints
· Trowel or rollerapplied elastomer ... Fate of active ingredients of antifouling paints in sea water (courtesy of Hempel Portugal). In any case, it is being seen that the fouling of immersed surfaces takes place in various stages, as illustrated in Table 2. In the first stage (first minutes of immersion), organic molecules of proteins, polysaccharides, glycoproteins and .