Cable Ship Overview

Cable ships overview
The Gutta-Percha
Tjipertir Plantation in Java
Pallaquium Gutta
Compagnie du Gutta-Percha
Cable ships
a long history
Goliath: lays 1st international cable, UK-France, 1850-1 Great Eastern: laying cable off Newfoundland, 1866
Source: Illustrated London News Source: Canadian Government
John Pender, named after pioneer cable maker, 1900 Monarch: laid 1st transatlantic telephone cable, 1955/6
Source: Cable & Wireless Source: www.atlantic-cable.com
Cable ships : key elements
ROV
Working deck ROV Hangar
Bridge control room
Cable linear Measurement Cable tanks Jointing position Engine room

machine room
Cable ships : size and performances
Cable ships : engines
 Performances : engines should be able
 To sustain a transit speed of 12 knots
 To keep the working position with a sea state
 To pull a plough (bollard pull)
 Number of engines :
 Usually 4 engines
 The optimum of fuel consumption could be to use only 3 or even
2 engines in parallel. The 4 engines are used for transit
Cable ships : engines room
Cable ships : Stability
 Different devices for the propulsion:
 Azimuthal propellers with 360° movement
 Transverse tunnel propellers
Large waves
 The optimum of fuel consumption could
be to use only 3 or even 2 engines in Small / Medium waves
parallel. The 4 engines are used for Calm water
transit
Reduced by 5/15% consumption in transit
 The design of the bow is now optimizing Stabilize the ship by reducing the pitch
the behaviour in the waves
 Dynamic Positioning : to keep an
accurate position a cable ship use
satellite information acquisition to
command the different propellers
 DP 2 : There is a double, independent
system from data acquisition to propellers
command
Sheaves
and working D
Deck
Cable tanks
Buoys
Repeater and Branching Unit handling
Repeater and Branching Unit handling
Cable machines
& cable drums
Jointing
Jointing
Jointing room
ROV
 The ROV has four functions
 Finding the cable
 Cutting the cable if necessary
 Gripping the cable with a rope
 Once the repair done, burial of the
cable using high pressure tools
ROV :immersion
ROV
Cameras
Handling arm
Cutting arm
Pressure tool
Umbilical
ROV Detection
protection
tool rear burial

tool
Front burial
tool
Front burial
tool
ROV : control room
 Importance of coordinating the ROV
progression with the ship navigation
 The ROV can be floating or progressing
on the sea bottom using its tracks
Bridge
Bridge
Grapnels : cutting
Grapnels : retrieving
Food and beverage
On board :
 The Captain also called Master is in charge of the vessel and
of the people on board, including customer representatives
 The vessel is organized in 3 services:
 Bridge, navigation, and deck operations
 Engines and all electrical devices on board
 General services :administrative, accommodation and food
 The crew organization is different in each company, but there
are 50 persons per ship : officers, petty officers and seamen
(AB for the deck Able Seamen, with a unique experience)
 There is also a dedicated team for the cable operation :
 Telecom technician for measurement and relation with on shore
stations
 Jointers
 ROV pilots and maintenance
 Reporting
 This team is about 10 to 12 people, it exists synergies between this
team and the crew
Route and Slack control
 The key point of a good lay (installation or repair) is a good
slack management tool and an accurate navigation on the
planned route
 Prior to an installation, a survey has provided among others a
Route Position List (RPL) that has to be final position of the
cable on the seabed
 In order to lay, or relay in case of maintenance operation, the
points to be controlled are
 The route followed by the vessel, according to the route that has
been decided in the survey prior to installation
 The speed of the vessel
 The speed of the cable engine and the cable drums
 These points are referred to as Slack control. This allows the cable to
be laid as flat as possible on the seabed and to avoid any kink due to
wrong slack management Slack management : spaghetti and Chopsticks
 There are several software that are dedicated to the slack management
The most important : the mascotte
 The troll of the Pierre de Fermat

 Forever the Pierre de Fermat will
remember being born in Norway

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Tjipertir Plantation in Java

Cable linear Measurement Cable tanks Jointing position Engine room

tool rear burial

 The troll of the Pierre de Fermat

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