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Blue water aid tidal installation

By: Lewis Holdsworth 09/07/2015 Blue Water Shipping

General Tidal Vessels

Blue Water Shipping Brest has assisted French Sabella SAS with installing their D10 tidal turbine on the seabed off Ushant Island which is located 30 kilometers off the western tip of Bretagne, France.

The installation of the tidal turbine took place during May and June and Blue Water Brest assisted Sabella on the full range of services. Initially, by acting as shipbrokers and fixing the cable installation together with Bourbon Subsea Services, who laid the cable from Ushant Island to the installation point at sea with their vessel "Argonaute".

Next phase was installation of the turbine. This was done by Combi Lift and their vessel M/V "Palembang" with assistance from tug boats holding M/V "Palembang" in position. Blue Water had arranged the tug boats from Boluda France.

The complex project was handled successfully in spite of the team being pressured both by the time and the current conditions.

"The current at Ushant Island is torrential which makes the installing process extremely complex. It is only possible to work during the so-called neap tides - the time periods where the tide is not so strong - which only occurs few days every month. It was a very tight schedule requiring precise planning and we all worked under pressure", says Mogens Nielsen, Director Blue Water France.

The turbine was built on the quayside in Brest where Blue Water was also involved in various logistics and stevedoring activities. The latter were handled by Blue Water's partner ADS.

The overall project was a great success handled in close cooperation with one of Sabella's main shareholders Saipem in Paris. Sabella SAS is a young engineering and project management company in the field of marine energies and more specifically tidal turbines.

You can visit the Sabella D10 project in full on our site HERE.

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