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How much cable can a ship carry?
The ships can carry with them up to 2,000km-length of cable. Depending on the equipment on-board the cable-ship, the type of plough used, the sea conditions and the ocean-bed where the cable is being laid down, cable ships can do anywhere from 100-150km of cable laying per day.
What is a ship cable?
A nautical cable is a band of tightly woven and clamped ropes, of a defined cable length, used during the age of sail for deep water anchoring, heavy lifting, ship to ship transfers and towing during blue sea sailing and other uses.
What is Lang’s lay and ordinary lay?
Regular lay and lang lay describe the way wires are placed within each strand. Regular lay means that wires in the strands are laid opposite in direction to the lay of the strands. Lang lay means that wires are laid in the same direction as the lay of the strands. Most of the wire rope used is right lay, regular lay.
What is Langs lay?
Definition of lang lay : a lay of a wire rope in which the wires in each strand are twisted in the same direction as the strands in the rope.
How many shackles are in a cable?
How many Shackles are in a Cable? The answer is one Cable is equal to 6.75 Shackles. Feel free to use our online unit conversion calculator to convert the unit from Cable to Shackle.
How long is a cable in nautical terms?
or cable length a nautical unit of length equivalent to 720 feet (219 meters) in the U.S. Navy and 608 feet (185 meters) in the British Navy.
What is RHRL in wire rope?
Left and right hand lay Right-hand lay strands are laid into a left-hand lay rope. Right-hand Lang’s lay (RHLL) wire rope (close-up). Right-hand lay strands are laid into a right-hand lay rope. Left hand lay or right hand lay describe the manner in which the strands are laid to form the rope.
How much is a shot in nautical terms?
A standard shot is 15 fathoms, or 90 feet, in length. Some detachable links are painted red, white, or blue to let the anchor detail know how much chain has run out. A detachable link is a link used to unfasten and separate shots of anchor chain. The number of adjacent links painted white indicates the shot number.
Why do ships have two anchors?
With two anchors, the idea is that there is never a direction that the boat could pull that it would pull an anchor out of the bottom. In the example of a 180-degree wind or current swing, there would be another anchor aligned and set, ready to take that load.
Why is it called a fathom?
The longest of many units derived from an anatomical measurement, the fathom originated as the distance from the middle fingertip of one hand to the middle fingertip of the other hand of a large man holding his arms fully extended. The name comes from the Old English faedm or faethm, meaning outstretched arms.
What is the Nexus?
The Nexus is Van Oord’s first cable-laying vessel and a remarkable piece of equipment in our fleet. Nexus is equipped with a huge cable carousel with a capacity of more than 5,000 tonnes and an offshore crane that enables to lay heavy and long export cables.
What kind of equipment does Van Oord have?
Cable-laying equipment The Nexus is Van Oord’s first cable-laying vessel and a remarkable piece of equipment in our fleet. Nexus is equipped with a huge cable carousel with a capacity of more than 5,000 tonnes and an offshore crane that enables to lay heavy and long export cables.
How do I contact Van Oord?
Van Oord Schaardijk 211 PO Box 8574 3009 AN Rotterdam The Netherlands +31 88 8260000 F+31 88 8265010 [email protected] I www.vanoord.com Contact IEXUS Van Ooyd
How do Van Oord’s trenchers work?
Van Oord has 2 trenchers, the Dig-It and the Deep Dig-It. These are so-called ‘Tracked Remotely Operated Vehicles’ (TROV) that drive unmanned over the seabed and create a deep trench for the cables by liquefying the seabed. At the same time, the trencher inserts the cables into the trench and seals them again into the seabed.