#UKMetOfficeBuoy – The Commissioners of Irish Lights tender ILV Granuaile (2000/2,625grt) successfully deployed a KI buoy recently for the UK's Met Office.
The positioning of the deep-water mooring buoy took place some 250 miles west of the French port of Brest in Brittany.
The Romanian built / Dutch outfitted Granuaile, has previously carried out maintenance visits on the K1 buoy, this was the first time a completely new set of moorings was deployed.
The extreme length of the cable introduced new and potentially hazardous challenges to the ships personnel.
In total almost 2,500 meters of a mixture of rope and chain moorings were deployed in depths of 1,500 m.
The successful deployment of the deep-water mooring proved how versatile and innovative the Granuaile is and that of her crew when faced with tough new offshore challenges.