dgadee
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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!
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!
Looking for somewhere to build the post brexit customs hall.
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.
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.
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.
Ah, not even a cable car?
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.