All about letting go
A repair vessel may have just deployed a bight of telecoms fibre optic cable or similar product – but it’s still attached to the crane. So, how does it retrieve what may be a 1,000m length of load-carrying rope? After all, leaving it there is environmentally unfriendly if not downright wasteful while using divers or ROVs doesn’t come cheap.
A repair vessel may have just deployed a bight of telecoms fibre optic cable or similar product - but it’s still attached to the crane. So, how does it retrieve what may be a 1,000m length of load-carrying rope? After all, leaving it there is environmentally unfriendly if not downright wasteful while using divers or ROVs doesn’t come cheap.