Deep Dig-It trencher buries cables to 5,5 metres depth for offshore grid connection
(WorldNews Netherlands)

To the north of the Maasvlakte, TenneT is building the Hollandse Kust (zuid) offshore grid to connect new offshore wind farms. Four cables will have to be buried into the North Sea seabed for this purpose. For the first ten kilometres of the cable route at sea, these cables will have to be buried more than 5,5 meters into the seabed in order to cross the busy shipping route Rotterdam Maasmond. The installation of the cables started on September 22nd by pulling the cable ashore. The Deep Dig-It trencher crossed the Rotterdam Maasmond successfully and is on its way to the recently installed offshore Alpha jacket in the Hollandse Kust (zuid) wind farm area. The Van Oord/Hellenic Cable...