dgadee
Well-known member
- Joined
- 13 Oct 2010
- Messages
- 2,204
Fugro Discovery research and survey vessel has been too and fro off Donaghadee today. It must be happening! The bridge to Portpatrick is really going to be built!
REMINDER - COVID-19
Any content, information, or advice found on social media platforms and the wider Internet, including forums such as YBW, should NOT be acted upon unless checked against a reliable, authoritative source, and re-checked, particularly where personal health and liberty is at stake. Seek professional advice/confirmation before acting on such at all times.
Users who are found to promulgate FAKE NEWS on the forum in regard to this issue, intentional or otherwise, may find their access terminated. It is your responsibility to provide references to bona fide sources.
FAKE NEWS, in this regard, is that which is posited by organisations, media, etc., that is repeated on the forum, or used to support personal opinion/hypothesis posted by users - FAKE NEWS is not necessarily the personal opinion/hypothesis being posted in itself, any issues with such should be challenged respectfully.
IN ADDITION it seems that conspiracy theories are finding their way onto the forum. This is not the place for such content. Users who post it may find their access limited or permanently suspended. Please leave it where you find it.
Looking for somewhere to build the post brexit customs hall.View attachment 89756
Clearly looking for where to put the first caison. I said that Boris Johnson was a man of his word and wouldn't let us down.
Hopefully the funding will come from some of the Crossrail subsidies that we in Donaghadee have been sending over to London for years.
They might even have to increase the bus service when the bridge is completed. It's been once an hour for 30 years. They may put on a half hourly service!
No, that'll be on the border. Or something. Not sure what Johnson promised us (maybe no border?) but being a man of his word it'll all be ok.Looking for somewhere to build the post brexit customs hall.
If London can get Crossrail 2, why can't Donaghadee get a bridge? Same price as London Olympics, they say.A road bridge to NI?! Boris a man of his word?!
Bit early festivities is it not!?
On a vaguely serious note, that puts the SCOT - NI 3 cable along the same route as the very first successful underwater cable in the world, laid in 1853 by the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company from Dunskey to Donaghadee. From Portpatrick Harbour it is a pleasant coastal walk to Dunskey where you can see a small exhibition in the original repetear hut and even, if you look carefully, find the remains of the cable emerging on the beach.Bad news. It's not the bridge Johnson promised us! It's just a bit of wire.
I hope they bury it well on this side. Scallop dredgers plough up and down just where they have been surveying every year turning the seabed into a waste land.On a vaguely serious note, that puts the SCOT - NI 3 cable along the same route as the very first successful underwater cable in the world, laid in 1853 by the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company from Dunskey to Donaghadee. From Portpatrick Harbour it is a pleasant coastal walk to Dunskey where you can see a small exhibition in the original repetear hut and even, if you look carefully, find the remains of the cable emerging on the beach.
I hate scallop dredgers. I notice that the northern cable route has a big dogleg in it to avoid the explode-y bits of the North Channel.I hope they bury it well on this side. Scallop dredgers plough up and down just where they have been surveying every year turning the seabed into a waste land.
Clearly despite going to the expense of chartering a very expensive survey vessel they’ll not have thought of that.I hope they bury it well on this side. Scallop dredgers plough up and down just where they have been surveying every year turning the seabed into a waste land.
Johnson offered us a second hand one. He said it was 'practically unused'. But the people of Donaghadee declined. They are smarter than the people of Docklands.Ah, not even a cable car?
Good move. Governments rush to fund any stupid idea Joanna Lumley can be persuaded to support. The Moat Brae project in Dumfries is a good example - a children's storytelling centre which is effectively inaccessible to 99% of the children of Scotland. It makes the Big Idea in Irvine look like a financially prudent investment.I've just written to Joanna Lumley. She seems to know a lot about bridges and Johnson seems to listen to her expertise.
As far as I recall there was a piece of old telegraph cable sticking out of the sand near Millisle. They will definitely plough or jet in the whole route to a depth of 1 or maybe 2 metres, using a plough or/and an ROV, well beyond scallop dredges or anchors.hope they bury it well on this side. Scallop dredgers plough up and down just where they have been surveying every year turning the seabed into a waste land.
That could be fun through an area reportedly having a lot of dumped ammunition, often with the drop locations rather imprecisely recorded.As far as I recall there was a piece of old telegraph cable sticking out of the sand near Millisle. They will definitely plough or jet in the whole route to a depth of 1 or maybe 2 metres, using a plough or/and an ROV, well beyond scallop dredges or anchors.
Denis (ex ROV Pilot, Global Marine).
I believe most of the problem is on the Scottish side, because impatient captains of dumping ships frequently didn't wait till they were over the Beaufort Dyke, or even anywhere near it, to unload.That could be fun through an area reportedly having a lot of dumped ammunition, often with the drop locations rather imprecisely recorded.