Hydro Group Helps Connect Carbon-free Island
, worth in the region of £750,000 ($998,000). Under the contract, Hydro Group delivered subsea cable and connectors to the first phase of KRISO’s floating wind and wave hybrid energy platform, in November 2017. Installation of the first phase will be undertaken this year.Located at Jeju Island in South Korea, the floating platform will be equipped with four offshore wind turbines, one in each corner, and wave energy converter buoys along the side. This design enables the platform to become a power generation system, producing energy from both wind and wave.Marc Gordon, Hydro Group Head
HHI’s New Weather System Helps Plan Sea Trials
; The new Sea Weather Forecasting System, developed by HHI in collaboration with Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST), analyzes sea weather information such as wave height, wind speed and current patterns on an hourly basis in seven offshore areas including Ulsan, Gunsan and Jeju Island to manage the shipbuilder’s sea trials schedules up to 72 hours in advance. The weather system aims to minimize possible delays in lifting work of the floating crane due to unexpected weather conditions through precision forecasting of the sea weather by every 60 meters in Mipo
Vice-Principal Of S.Korea School In Ferry Disaster Commits Suicide
from Chonghaejin Marine Co Ltd, the ship owner, and others who had met him described him as an "expert". "I don't know why he abandoned the ship like that," said Ju Hi-chun, a maritime author who interviewed the captain in 2006 as one of the experts on the route to Jeju island. But he added: "Koreans don't have the view that they have to stay with their ship until the end. It is a different culture from the West." Some media reports have said the vessel turned sharply, causing cargo to shift and the ship to list before capsizing. Marine
300 Missing After Korean Ferry Capsizes
relatives of the missing threw water at journalists trying to speak to survivors and at a local politician who had arrived at the makeshift clinic. Most of the passengers on board the ferry appeared to have been teenagers and their teachers from a high school in Seoul who were on a field trip to Jeju island, about 100 km (60 miles) south of the Korean peninsula. CONFUSION OVER NUMBER MISSING An official from the Danwon High School in Ansan, a Seoul suburb, had earlier said all of its 338 students and teachers had been rescued. But that could not be confirmed by the coastguard or other officials
February 2024
