Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Monday, 22 June 2009
Project Kelvin - Work in Progress
Project Kelvin
Connecting NI to USA via High Speed Cable
The ships at work Portrush West Bay on NI Mon 22nd June 2009
Project Kelvin - The Cable Layer/Joiner
Monday June 22nd 2009 Project Kelvin is underway at Portrush, this is the Cable Layer
C.S Sovereign beginning her work on the high speed broadband link between NI and the USA
WORK began on Monday on the multi-million pound Kelvin Project cable site at the West Strand in Portrush.
The Kelvin Project will create a trans-Atlantic communication cable, bringing massive opportunities across Northern Ireland.
A large drilling rig will be assembled at the car park at the West Strand and will start drilling in around ten days time.
The rig will drill out from the car park to the beach. Then around June 20, weather permitting, a cable ship will leave Portland in Dorset to bring the cable to Portrush.
The ship will be visible for a week as divers will float the cable out towards the bore hole which has been drilled.
Mr Bullock added: “There will be around ten days disruption at the car park but this has been approved by Coleraine Borough Council who have been enormously supportive of the project.
“We will keep disruption to a minimum and we hope that everyone will realise that the improvements will far outweigh the disruption.”
Work on the cable landing station at Dundooan outside Coleraine should begin shortly after the Portrush leg of operations have been completed.
“There will be various different teams working on each part of the operation. The ship’s crew numbers around 35 and they will work 24/7.
“We are due to complete all the work by the end of the year. The there will be a period of testing before going live in March 2010.”
Cable Ship
Yard number 956
Delivery year 1991
Purchaser British Telecom
Built by Krimpen Shipyard
LOA 127.30 m
Lpp 106.94 m
Breadth 21.00 m
Depth 13.00 m
Design draught 5.90 m
Scantling draught 7.00 m
Speed 14.00 kn
Deadweight 7,455 t
DP Class 1
No workclass ROV's 1
Cable capacity 6,000 t
Cable lenght 4,400 km
Total inst power 11,800 kW
C.S Sovereign beginning her work on the high speed broadband link between NI and the USA
WORK began on Monday on the multi-million pound Kelvin Project cable site at the West Strand in Portrush.
The Kelvin Project will create a trans-Atlantic communication cable, bringing massive opportunities across Northern Ireland.
A large drilling rig will be assembled at the car park at the West Strand and will start drilling in around ten days time.
The rig will drill out from the car park to the beach. Then around June 20, weather permitting, a cable ship will leave Portland in Dorset to bring the cable to Portrush.
The ship will be visible for a week as divers will float the cable out towards the bore hole which has been drilled.
Mr Bullock added: “There will be around ten days disruption at the car park but this has been approved by Coleraine Borough Council who have been enormously supportive of the project.
“We will keep disruption to a minimum and we hope that everyone will realise that the improvements will far outweigh the disruption.”
Work on the cable landing station at Dundooan outside Coleraine should begin shortly after the Portrush leg of operations have been completed.
“There will be various different teams working on each part of the operation. The ship’s crew numbers around 35 and they will work 24/7.
“We are due to complete all the work by the end of the year. The there will be a period of testing before going live in March 2010.”
Cable Ship
Yard number 956
Delivery year 1991
Purchaser British Telecom
Built by Krimpen Shipyard
LOA 127.30 m
Lpp 106.94 m
Breadth 21.00 m
Depth 13.00 m
Design draught 5.90 m
Scantling draught 7.00 m
Speed 14.00 kn
Deadweight 7,455 t
DP Class 1
No workclass ROV's 1
Cable capacity 6,000 t
Cable lenght 4,400 km
Total inst power 11,800 kW
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Monday, 15 June 2009
The RNLI "William Gordon Burr" at Portrush
This is an extra large (3072 x 2304 Pixels) copy,it's really cool when printed out or processed.
Please DONATE to the RNLI, they do a really wonderful job, and without pay as well!!!!
Rope Bridge at Carrick-a-Rede
Spanning a chasm some eighty feet deep is the famous Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, it's construction once consisted of a single rope hand rail and widely spaced slats which the fishermen would traverse across with salmon caught off the island. The single handrail was subsequently replaced by a two hand railed bridge, the current, caged bridge was installed by the National Trust during Easter of 2000 as a further safety measure. Although no-one has ever been injured falling off the old bridge, there have been many instances of visitors being unable to face the return walk back across the bridge, resulting in them being taken off the island by boat. A collection of old photographs in Sheep Island View Hostel show a local man doing various stunts on the bridge which include riding a bicycle across it and performing handstands on a chair in the middle. Primarily a 'seasonal' working bridge for the fishermen, since the demise of salmon fishing along the coast, the bridge is nowadays more widely used by passing visitor's and marketed as a tourist attraction. The area is exceptional in is natural beauty, to the left as you come down the steep hill is Larrybane headland which once stretched out towards Sheep Island and had a promontory fort on the top dating to 800AD, underneath large caves once served as home to boat builders and a safe resting place from winter storms. During the 1950's blasting, quarrying and shipping of limestone removed most of Larrybane Head, it is well worth a walk down to the old quarry area as some incredible views can be enjoyed from here.
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