Blue Ocean Projects provides a cable route engineering service for subsea power and telecom cables.

This service can be provided as an initial feasibility study, as a pre-cable route study/pre-desk top study input, or as part of such a study, and can be undertaken in complete confidence.

We normally use the ICPC Recommendations (International Cable Protection Committee, see www.iscpc.org) for cable and pipe crossings where applicable, combined with good route engineering practice and experience in providing a proposed route.

We have 'MakaiPlan' software available to engineer subsea cable routes (see www.makai.com). This software operates in a GIS environment and contains 'Gebco' bathymetry data as a starting point to provide a quick method to generate an initial cable route, providing anticipated route and cable lengths with likely cable armouring and slack requirement.

Existing cable/pipe route information and local survey data can be added where available, and the proposed cable route generated.

Fishing activity, shipping/dredging activities, geophysical and geotechnical data, fault histories, and metocean data can all be included in the study to further refine routes and required cable protection strategies (burial depths, armouring levels, slack levels).