VA – NC – Offshore Kitty Hawk Wind Area Survey: Horizon Geosciences will be performing geotechnical surveys consisting of borehole drilling and sampling. The S/V KOMMANDOR SUSAN is expected to commence operations in the area 1 August 2020 and be on site for until approximately 15 Sep 2020, work wil…

She arrived from another job. Last port: New Bedford: [image] US Offshore Wind Power Professional Mariner Forum

The name was familiar but I’d forgotten where from. Testing bottom composition for wind farms I can get behind.

She can’t get through Oregon Inlet, that we know.

Or return to New Bedford unless they have a waiver. Am I right?

[image] Lee_Shore: UK flagged. I guess it means returning to the UK without touching US soil if the Jones Act means anything. She doesn’t carry any cargo between US ports .

Are you sure about no passengers/crew? Maybe if they return or pick up pax/crew/equipment in New Bedford, they can’t be said to be transporting between ports.

I hope she carry a marine crew. (No crewless vessels of this size/type yet) Bound to be some Geophysical technicians as well. Don’t know if there are any “visitors” on board, but paying Pax is unlikely. Maybe some Americans on board to observe the operation? If so, would they have to go with her …

By pax I mean scientists/technicians who aren’t going to be on board for transits to the UK or another foreign port. Too short a time to be concerned with crew changes.

Worst case, crew boat to shore I guess? Lucky other countries don’t have laws like that.

It’s rather dicey for even crewboats in Oregon Inlet. It shifts so much. A pal works a charter on a daily basis. Never the same as the week or day before. A recent scallop boat “Monument” sits off the channel as the most recent victim of the ever moving channel.

VA-NC Kommandor Susan taking bottom samples

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ombugge August 13, 2020, 7:59pm 2

She arrived from another job. Last port: New Bedford:

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VA-NC Kommandor Susan taking bottom samples

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