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18 March 2015
We are proud to announce that VOS Sympathy this week completed an exciting project for our trusted client, LD TravOcean.
VOS Sympathy, a subsea-support vessel operated by Vroon Offshore Services Den Helder, has spent the last few weeks laying a power cable between Quiberon and Belle-Ile in Brittany. The power cable, from the French mainland to the island Belle-Ile, will be connected to the main electrical grid and provide additional power capacity to the island.
The project lasted three weeks, with transit, cable loading and mobilisation of the lay spread on board the vessel being the most time-consuming tasks. The actual laying of the cable, which took place from the vessel’s starboard side, only lasted three days, partly due to the favourable weather conditions. With the assistance of small workboats, the cable was transferred from the vessel to shore. In shallow areas, the cable was pulled into the vessel from the shore. At the start of the project, the ferry service to the island had to be suspended for a few hours while VOS Sympathy started her operations, since transit spread during laying is obviously very slow (about 300 metres / hour). For the vessel’s crew it was a chance to make optimum use of the modern DP system, operating in “track-follow” mode.
We would like to thank our clients for the assignment and for their support throughout the exercise. We would also like to express our appreciation to all crew members for a job well done. The combined knowledge and skills of LD Travocean and VOS have resulted in the successful and timely completion of this interesting and unique project.
Whenever on Belle-Ile for a holiday and making full use of the air-conditioning system in our hotel room, we will be pleased to remember that we assisted in laying the cable to make this possible!
Vessel particulars of VOS Sympathy
Vroon B.V. press release
Images by Vroon B.V.
VOS Sympathy