Marine Notice: Cable Route Survey In Irish Territorial Waters

16th March 2018

The MV Fugro Discovery is conducting survey operations off the North West Coast this week Credit: Fugro

#MarineNotice - Fugro is currently carrying out marine operations for the HAVFRUE Subsea Cable System Project, further to its work carried out in January.

The current survey within Irish territorial waters off the North West Coast began on Wednesday 14 March and is expected to run till midweek next week.

The MV Fugro Discovery (Callsign 3EKE6) is surveying on Segment 2 within Irish EEZ waters towards the 1,500m contour line at the shelf, followed by operations at the BU1 position and Segment 3 as indicated on the charts included with Marine Notice No 10 of 2018, a PDF of which is available to read or download HERE.

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