Meeting the Cable Ship in Astoria
Cecile Durand, the OOI Regional Scale Nodes Marine Maintenance Manager at the University of Washington, reports from Astoria, Oregon:
June 27, 2011
Category: Construction
Cable Laying Vessel Underway
A commercial cable-laying ship, the TE SubCom C.S. Dependable, set sail on June 3 from Newington, New Hampshire, loaded with the OOI cable
June 4, 2011
Photos of OOI Cable Loading
Cable loading operations for the 870 kilometers (~540 miles) of OOI backbone cable took place in late May and early June 2011 from the TE Sub Com
June 1, 2011
Northern conduit installed
Over the weekend, the L3-MariPro crew in Pacific City completed the installation of the Northern Conduit 12″ pipe.
March 28, 2011
Northern Conduit drilling complete
The L3-MariPro drill team completed drilling the 5,000 ft Northern Conduit yesterday (March 24th)! The next step will be to push the permanent co
March 25, 2011
Bubble test for the Southern Conduit
The conditions have not been favorable (bad weather) for divers, the crew decided to climb aboard a Dory boat yesterday and launched off the beach
March 24, 2011
Northern Conduit drilling continues
As of last Saturday (3/19), 630 ft of temporary 12" casing has been installed in the northern conduit as part of the pilot hole. This casing
March 21, 2011
Drilling of the Northern Conduit begins
After successfully completing the southern conduit on March 14th, the drill rig was repositioned to work on the northern conduit the following da
March 17, 2011
Southern Conduit Completed
On Friday, March 11, the drilling rig broke through the seafloor, ahead of schedule, at the end of the 5,000-foot southern conduit.
March 15, 2011
Drilling resumes after tsunami warning
Personnel conducting operations related to the OOI RSN horizontal directional drilling efforts were evacuated early Friday morning.
March 12, 2011