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OFCC 2021 Marine Dr. Suite 102 O REGON F ISHERMEN' S C ABLE Astoria, OR 97103 C OMMITTEE, INC. © Phone: (503) 325-2285 E-mail: [email protected] February, 2017 [email protected] Volume 4, Issue 1
The Oregon Fishermen’s Cable Commi�ee Inc. is an organiza�on of trawl shermen and representa�ves from companies that operate ber op�c cables off the Oregon coast. Membership is free of charge and open to all Undersea Cable Update west coast trawl shermen that have either a west coast federal groundsh permit or an Oregon, Washington or California Pink Shrimp permit. Members that follow opera�ng protocols receive replacement gear and compensa- �on for lost �me and catch if asked to sacrice shing gear to protect an undersea cable. In addi�on, such mem- New Cross Pacific Cable to be Installed in April bers may receive a release of liability for accidental damage to an undersea cable. Members also are eligible to par�cipate in drawings for patrol vessel charter opportuni�es during undersea cable installa�ons. Cable installation activities are expected to equipment needs to be in good working order begin off the Oregon coast in April, 2017 and on board prior to mobilization. Patrol ves- The OFCC tries to monitor an email address and phone number Inside this issue: (tentatively April 11-23) for the NCP cable. It sel charters are usually 10 days and the rate is for use in a submarine cable emergency: is slated to be ready for service at the end of typically $57.50/foot/day up to a maximum of OFCC: [email protected] NCP Cable 1 2017. It will span more than 7,000 nm -- ex- $4887.50 per day (85 ft). Installation tending from Pacific City to Japan, Korea, two To become a member, the owner or captain points in China, and Taiwan. It is a new gen- Scott McMullen (503) 440-3569 of a trawler signs an Individual Fisherman’s ROV Cable 1 eration high capacity fiber-optic submarine Inspection cable system with a capacity up to 80 Terabits Agreement (IFA) form on behalf of the vessel. There is no cost or fee. Every vessel that has Port Meetings 2 per second (Tbps). Microsoft is the U.S. land- Emergency Contacts for Possible Cable Hang-ups ing party and a partner for the NCP Consorti- a West Coast Federal Groundfish permit, or an FASTER Cable 2 um that includes Chunghwa Telecom, KT Oregon, Washington, or California Shrimp Corporation, China Telecom, China Mobile, permit is eligible. If a member vessel wishes CABLE EMERGENCY EMAIL CABLE OWNER EMERGENCY # Hawaiki Sub- 3 and China Unicom. TE SubCom is the suppli- to be included in the patrol boat drawings, the When you can’t call the Emergency # marine Cable er, providing the infrastructure necessary. Mi- Patrol Boat Statement of Interest needs to be RSN—OOI AUFS-W [email protected] GCI (888) 442-8662 3 crosoft joined the OFCC in March 2016. submitted. To become a member or for more Web Sites OFCC member vessels will be needed for information, call (503) 325-2285 or email us TGN SEGMENT 1 nmcwall@tatacommunicaƟons.com TATA (732) 282-4001 Cable Contact 4 patrol and guard boat services during the at: [email protected]. Information installation process. Member vessels that TGN SEGMENT 5 TATA have submitted a Statement of Interest are TGN SEGMENT 6 TATA entered in a random drawing for each cable OFCC Version 8.1 project. Vessels must be in seaworthy condi- tion as determined by the OFCC and required RSN SEG 1,2,3 & 4 [email protected] OCEAN LEADERSHIP (855) 665-1424 Thumb Drives are RSN SEG 5 OCEAN LEADERSHIP available — same Regional Scale Nodes (RSN) Cable Inspections as Version 8.0 NORTHSTAR [email protected] ACS (888) 734-1888 but with OLEX The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) the cable, the vessel will have an ROV sub on RSN cables are due for their 5-year inspec- the seabed and will likely be moving at less AKORN ACS update. They also include plotter tions to confirm the burial condition of the than 1/2 knot.
info for Maptech, cables. OFCC agreements call for the first Generally, trawl- TRANS-PACIFIC EXPRESS inspection after a cable has been installed for 5 ers will be asked Coastal Explorer, years and if no change is found, every eight to give a 1 nm (TPE) [email protected] VERIZON (888) 734-1888 P-Sea WindPlot, years thereafter. The dates of the inspection clearance around SOUTHERN CROSS [email protected] VERIZON ECC-Globe, and are subject to the availability of a cableship. the ship when it is The cableship will have a Remote Operated conducting under- Nobeltec. Next Vehicle (ROV) that will dive at multiple sites water operations. China-US AT&T (866) 466-2288, version should be on both cables. The ROV will have still and TPC-5 AT&T prompt 5 coming out this video cameras and a tool to calculate the depth summer. of burial of cable that is not visible. Due to the nature of the work, guard or patrol FASTER [email protected] GOOGLE (877) 520-0800 vessels will not be needed. While inspecting Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) P a g e 2 U n d e r s e a C a b l e U p d a t e V o l u m e 4 , I s s u e 1 P a g e 3 2017 Port Meetings FASTER Cable Completed Hawaiki Submarine Cable TRAWLER CAPTAINS AND CREW The OFCC and Google began working on Hawaiki Submarine Cable USA LLC joined the OFCC on Octo- (Draggers, Shrimpers & Whiting Fleet) a route for the FASTER cable in July ber 14, 2016, becoming the eighth submarine cable owner, join- 2014. As part of this process, Google and ing General Communications, Inc. (GCI), Alaska Communica- You are invited to an OFCC Luncheon Meeting OFCC reps worked with fishermen on at any of the following locations: tions (ACS), Verizon, Tata Communications, The Consortium their trawlers in Charleston to design the for Ocean Leadership, GU Holdings Inc. (Google), and Mi- Brookings Sebastian’s Restaurant Wed. March 1 route to maximize burial in the fishing crosoft Infrastructure Group, LLC. The Hawaiki submarine Charleston Charleston Marina RV Park Thurs. March 2 grounds by using the local knowledge of cable will land in Pacific City, Oregon and cross the Pacific the trawl fleet. This was highly effective, Newport Englund Marine Supply Fri. March 3 Ocean to Oahu, Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia—7,170 nm as the route resulted in good burial through Westport, WA Ocean Gold HR Dept. Mon. March 6 from Oregon to Australia. The cable has a design capacity of 42 the trawl fishing grounds out to over 800 Tbps, and is expected to be ready for service in June of 2018. (Old Fun Center—1601 Yearout Dr.) fms. Google, and the other cable compa- Warrenton The installation activities off Oregon will take place in late El Compadre Restaurant Fri. March 10 nies, have seen benefits from working summer of 2017. Hawaiki worked with the Oregon fishing in- Seattle NWFSC Montlake Auditorium late Apr/earlyMay closely with the OFCC. dustry to get the best route crossing the shelf and slope. (Before NOAA Pre-Season Hake Industry Mtg.) With construction and end-to-end testing All meetings will start at noon -- Lunch is provided. complete, a new trans-Pacific submarine RSN Ocean Observatory Sending Data cable system, the “FASTER Cable Sys- Enter drawings for $300, $200, and $100 gift cards from tem,” started service on June 30, 2016. system is designed so drawing held Cabela’s and Englund Marine Supply– Construction of the system was announced that every summer some after May meeting. Information on the Google cable in- in August 2014. The 4860 nm trans- scientific instruments stalled in the summer of 2015 and new cable projects go- Pacific cable lands in Oregon near Bandon can be replaced using Remote Operated Vehi- ing in this year will be shared at each meeting, which last and has two landing points in Japan. On cles (ROVs) that can about 45 minutes. the West Coast of the U.S., the system has ‘plug in’ new instru- extended connections from the landing ments into the junction point in Bandon to Los Angeles, the San boxes on the seafloor. Francisco area, Portland and Seattle. In We have been asking Asia, FASTER has connectivity to many for a “Fishermen’s Web Float shown in top right of photo neighboring cable systems, extending its Page” with information of interest to the fishing to left. capacity beyond Japan to other Asian loca- industry such as surface tions. and bottom current speed and direction, sea temperatures, This six-fiber pair cable has an initial de- thermoclines etc. sign capacity of 60 Terabits per second One of the cables starts at Pacific City and ends at Axial (Tbps). Google joined the OFCC in No- Seamount, 250 nm west of Tillamook Head. Axial is an vember, 2014. active volcano, with high temperature water vents, “smoker chimneys” and recent lava flows in 2011 and 2015. Among the instruments at this site are video cam- eras, seismometers, biological sensors and devices that 2016 Port Meeting Winners: measure the chemical make-up of the water. Every three hours a video camera streams live (http:// Tony Pettis, F/V Heidi Sue, $100 Cabela’s card The waters off the Oregon coast are now among a handful oceanobservatories.org/streaming-underwater-video/) Rich Brown, F/V Calimari, $200 Englund Marine card of places in the world with a cabled undersea observatory from the Axial Seamount caldera location, showing a Scott Hartzel, F/V Ossian, $300 Cabela’s card that is constantly delivering scientific data back to shore. deep-sea hot water vent/chimney covered with plants and The OOI-RSN cables connect six research locations off animals that have adapted to the high water temperature. Brett Hearne, F/V Last Straw, GPS EPIRB, donated by Oregon to schools, researchers, and the public. The fund- Viking Life Saving Equipment of Seattle ing for this project comes from the National Science The RSN Cable is part of a bigger project called Ocean Foundation, and one of their requirements for the system Observatories Initiative (OOI), with multiple sites in vari- ous parts of the world. The OOI will monitor reference We thank Joanne Morris, Technical Program Manager is that information collected be publicly available. Instru- ments and moorings have been deployed on the seabed sites over the long term, even hoping to help improve from Google, for joining us at Newport, Westport, and and, at a few sites, in the water column. Some of the in- storm forecasting. For more information see these web- Warrenton Port Meetings in 2016. At all the 2016 Port struments are winched up and down the water column sites: Meetings, Google gave away t-shirts. Brett Hearne with prize GPS EPIRB nine times a day sampling and monitoring the water. The http://oceanobservatories.org/ http://www.interactiveoceans.washington.edu/