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Dispatches

Short notes from the water

Campaign notes, vessel movements, training, near misses. Written the week they happened, not polished into a newsletter later.

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1 September 2026
Base

Winter stock landed in Esbjerg: consumables, resin and rope for two blade campaigns are on the shelf before the first gale

26 August 2026
Campaign

Leading-edge campaign at Kjellbank closed six days ahead of the weather window we booked

18 August 2026
Campaign

Two array cables re-terminated at Grey Knoll inside one settled spell, and the string was back before the tests were typed up

11 August 2026
Fleet

Sixth crew transfer vessel enters service in Łeba, cutting transit to the array to 41 minutes

29 July 2026
Academy

Nineteen technicians finished GWO basic safety this summer with no offshore hours before March

14 July 2026
Campaign

Scour survey at Marldeep found rock cover thinned on nine monopiles, charted and handed over the same week

26 June 2026
Safety

Dropped-object near miss on a tower platform stopped the day’s work at four turbines, and the tool tether rule changed the same evening

9 June 2026
Campaign

Every one of last winter’s thirty-one terminations at Dunewater re-entered and inspected, four J-tube seals replaced

21 May 2026
Campaign

General visual inspection closed at Tarnbank: 240 findings raised, 31 ranked for action this season

30 April 2026
Academy

Three technicians revalidated IRATA Level 3, which is the ticket that decides whether a rope campaign can run at all

17 March 2026
Base

Marine coordination moved onto a three-hourly forecast cycle for every base, not just Łeba

24 February 2026
Campaign

Grey Knoll turbine back in service in a nine-hour window between two depressions

6 February 2026
Campaign

Forty-four flange connections at Holm Shoal verified and logged, nothing signed off from memory

20 January 2026
Safety

Stand-by days hit eleven in a row across the Baltic bases, and not one transfer was attempted above the limit

Sources. GWO Basic Safety Training and IRATA Level 3 are real certification schemes (GWO standard; heightec, Dangle Academy). Everything reported in these dispatches — farms, dates, quantities, vessels and people — is invented for this concept.