C/B Henry P. Lading lays out two cables in record time

For a time Danish island of Ærø was supplied with electricity via two high-voltage cables.

To strengthen the supply, DELPRO decided to install a new high-voltage cable and a fibre-optics cable. JD-Contractor A/S was contracted to load, transport and lay out both cables beneath the sea bed.

After sailing through a western moderate gale, C/B Henry P. Lading arrived as scheduled on Ærø from the ABB cable factory in Sweden in the early morning of October 26th 2003. The threat of bad weather required immediate initiation of laying activities.

Within 24 hours two cables, each 5 kilometres in length, were laid out by C/B Henry P. Lading in a single stretch of hard work. Exploiting very accurate positioning equipment aboard the C/B Henry P. Lading, more than 200 tons of cables were placed in the excavated furrow between Langeland and Ærø.

Divers from the M/S Honte concluded the work by jetting the cables into the sea bed of the pre-digged trench from Ærø to Langeland. The cables were installed at a minimum burying depth of 1 meter.

For the laying out of the two cables we had a narrow timeframe of 24 hours. Everything went according to plan, and the cables were laid out in record time.

A movie of
Henry P. Lading in the process of laying out
the two cables between Langeland and Ærø
can be downloaded here

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