Marine data company Partrac is planning a new deployment of metocean instrumentation for the North Irish Sea Array (NISA) over a three-day period from Monday 10 October.
These will replace the instruments deployed in January this year, as previously reported on Afloat.ie, on a schedule subject to weather and operational constraints.
The survey campaign will be undertaken within the proposed NISA offshore wind farm array area. This forms an irregular, approximately rectangular shape, spanning 31km north-south and 14km east-west at its widest point. At its closest location, near Rush in Co Dublin, the array area is approximately 7.4km from the coastline.
Deployments will be carried out from the AMS Retriever (callsign MEHI8) which will be restricted in its ability to manoeuvre. All other vessels are requested to leave a wide berth during the deployment operations. Radio transmissions will be conducted with other seafarers to notify them of the operations.
Coordinates of the deployments as well as characteristics of the metocean buoys and contact details are included in Marine Notice No 68 of 2022, attached below.