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1 The shaded blocks below indicate the areas of activity published within this Bulletin. Area 1 Page 2 Area 2 - Area 3 Page 3 Area 4 Page 4 Area 5 Pages 5-9 This Bulletin, along with previous issues, can be viewed at: Alternatively you can receive the Bulletin via , by contacting: kingfisher@seafish.co.uk * Unless otherwise stated, all co-ordinates listed in this Bulletin refer to WGS 84 datum Area 6 Page 10 1 of 10

2 Exposed Cable Sections SHEFA-2 Segments 8 & 9 (Update ) Please be advised that there are sections of the SHEFA-2 cable that have been surface laid or remain unburied. These areas represent a hazard to fishing and should be avoided at all times. SHEFA have commissioned a Kingfisher Awareness Chart to highlight these areas, which can be downloaded using the link below. For a copy of the Kingfisher Awareness Flyer, showing the exposed sections of SHEFA, please contact the undersigned. Alternatively, click on the link below, or visit Kingfisher Awareness Flyer: SHEFA Exposed Sections (June 2011) For further information, please contact: Tel: , phv@ft.fo, brr@ft.fo Area 1 Area 1 Area 1 Area 1 Area 1 2 of 10

3 Newly Installed Cable BritNed Subsea Power Cable (New ) As previously reported within the Kingfisher Cable Bulletin, the BritNed Subsea Power cable was installed earlier this year. The Cable System is a twin bundled High Voltage DC interconnector stretching approximately 260 km from the Isle of Grain in the UK, across to Maasvlakte in the Netherlands. The interconnector has a nominal capacity of 1000 MW, with each cable having a diameter of 119 mm. The cable installation was completed in June 2011 with the majority of cable being lowered to in excess of 1.5 metres. For a copy of the Kingfisher Awareness Flyer for the BritNed Subsea Power Cable, please contact the undersigned. Alternatively, click on the link below, or visit Kingfisher Awareness Flyer: BritNed Subsea Power Cable For further information, please contact: BritNed Control Room, Tel: +44 (0) or +44 (0) Hazardous Condition of Cable Ulysses South landing - St Margaret's Bay Further to earlier Notices, the Ulysses South submarine cable landing at St Margaret's Bay, near Dover, remains broken at a position: 'N 'E This position lies approximately 1.3km offshore in a water depth of 15 metres. As a result of this fault, the cable at the approaches to St Margaret's Bay has been dragged an indeterminate distance to the north of its as laid route on either side of the fault position. Caution should therefore be exercised in this area until the cable repair operation has been carried out. For further information, please contact: Tom Manning, Tel: +44 (0) , tom.manning@globalmarinesystems.com Area 3 Area 3 Area 3 Area 3 Area 3 3 of 10

4 Guernsey to Jersey Submarine Power Cable Repair (Update ) Please be advised that the Vessel: Team Oman Callsign: J8B2641 assisted by the Vessel Bremen Hunter Callsign: V2PO4 is carrying out repair operations on the Guernsey to Jersey Submarine Power Cable. Main Work Area: 'N 'W 'N 'W Work is due to commence 21 st July 2012 for 21 Days For further information, please contact: Heidi Le Noury, Guernsey Electricity Ltd, Tel: +44(0) Survey Activity England France Interconnector Marine Surveys (New ) Please be advised that Fugro will be carrying out marine survey operations Company, Vessel & Call Sign Fugro Geoconsulting Ltd MV Aurelia 9HF18 MV Valkyrie MGSX3 Towing Cable Length & Submerged Depth Area Covered 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W Quadrant Blocks Start Timeframe & Duration 03/09/ /09/2012 For 3 Weeks Area 4 Area 4 Area 4 Area 4 Area 4 4 of 10

5 Marine Cable Works East West Interconnector Cable Cable Burial Operations(Update ) On behalf of EirGrid Interconnector Ltd please be advised that the EirGrid East West Interconnector cable between Rush Beach North County Dublin and Barkby Beach near Rhyl, north Wales has now been laid and cable burial rock placement protection operations are due to commence on or around 11 September 2012 (see Chart and Route Position List attached). The FPV ROLLINGSTONE is due to carry out rock placement protection operations at various locations along the cable between N W and west to approximate position N W. The FPV STORNES is due to carry out rock placement protection operations at various locations in Irish waters along the cable between N W and east to approximate position N W. Cable works vessels will be operating on a 24-hour basis and will keep a listening watch on VHF Channel 16. In accordance with IRPCS, vessels will display the appropriate day shapes and lights for vessel s operational status. Fishermen are advised not to leave any static fishing equipment within a distance of 1000 metres of the EirGrid EWIC cable route. Trawler skippers are also respectfully asked not to trawl within a distance of at least 1000 metres of the cable route. All vessels should withdraw and keep a distance of at least 1nm from all cable vessels associated with these marine operations that are on-going. In the interests of maritime safety and to avoid any interaction between the on-going sub-sea cable installation works and other marine activities, subsea cable guard vessels continue to be stationed along the cable route at locations where the cable is currently considered to be unburied. Sub-sea cable guard vessels will make regular security transmissions on VHF Channel 16 and may request two-way communications with any vessel considered to be navigating to a distance of less than 1000 metres of these cable works and where the recently installed EirGrid EWIC cable may currently be unburied. Route Position List: 'N 'W Rush Beach Landfall 'N 'W Shore End Joint 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W Laydown Cable End (DWJoint) 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W Shore End Joint 'N 'W 'N 'W Omega Joint 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W Barkby Beach Landfall For further information, please contact: Colin Richards, Tel: +44 (0) , Mobile: +44 (0) , colinrichards@networkmarine.fsnet.co.uk Area 5 Area 5 Area 5 Area 5 Area 5 5 of 10

6 Vulnerable Cable Section Hibernia Segment A (New ) Please be advised that an area of vulnerable cable on the Hibernia Atlantic cable has been identified. This area may represent a hazard to fishing and should be avoided at all times. Hibernia have commissioned a Global Marine Awareness Chart to highlight this area which can be obtained from Global Marine 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W For further information, please contact: Steven Bennett, Global Marin, Tel: +44(0) , Steven.bennett@globalmarinesystems.com Marine Cable Works Gwynt y Mor Wind Farm Export Cables (Update ) Global Marine Systems Limited has been contracted to conduct cable installation and burial of the Gwynt y Môr wind farm export cables. A Navigation Warning advising of a navigation hazard has been issued for the Gwynt y Môr Offshore Windfarm today, 10th September The full notice can be downloaded here and is summarised below. The notice advises that the cable laying barge Cable Enterprise has had to abandon the cable laying plough along with some umbilical approximately 4.2 nautical miles north of Pensarn beach and 2 nautical miles west of the middle patch spit port hand lateral buoy. This location is shown on the map here. The precise location of the obstruction is: 'N 'W The water depths at is approximately 5m. The plough is 10m in length and 4.5m in height. All vessels are advised to keep at least 1000m clear of this location. The location of the plough and umbilical has been marked with buoys (pictured in the Navigation Warning). Holyhead MRCC is issuing a local navigation warning every 3 hours, and the RWE npower renewables guard vessel MV Choice is on location and also broadcasting a navigation warning. Both Holyhead MRCC and MV Choice can be contacted on VHF Channel 16. Gwynt y Môr is an offshore Wind Farm located 13km offshore of the North Wales coast, between Prestatyn and Colwyn Bay. The site is to accommodate 160 Siemens 3.6MW Turbines providing a capacity of up to 750MW. The operations involve the installation and burial of 4 x 132kV export cables, from the shore to two offshore substations. For a copy of the Kingfisher Awareness Flyer for the Gwynt Y Mor Offshore Wind Farm, please click on the link below, or visit Kingfisher Awareness Flyer: Gwynt Y Mor Offshore Wind Farm Area 5 Area 5 Area 5 Area 5 Area 5 For further information, please contact: Jim Andrews, Fisheries Liason Officer Tel: +44(0) of 10

7 Marine Survey Irish Sea Western HVDC Link Project (Update ) Mariners are advised that survey and diving equipment will be used in the Irish Sea In August 2012 weather dependent. Work commenced on 26 th July at Wirral (England). The survey will be carried out by the vessel ILV Granualie Call Sign: EIPT Inshore Survey Boat (Wirral): Remote Sensor Inshore Survey Boat ( Ardneil): Yorkshire Lady During this survey the vessels may be deploying either underwater survey equipment and / or divers. During such times the survey vessels may have restricted ability to manoeuvre and other vessels are requested to pass at a safe speed and distance. The Western HVDC Link Project consists of a 600 kv DC submarine system in the Irish Sea between Ardneil (Scotland) and Wirral (England) for a total route length of about 385 km. Cable route co-ordinates 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W For further information, please contact: Andrea Fienga, UTEC Survey Mediterrenean, Tel Andrea.Fienga@utecsurvey.com Area 5 Area 5 Area 5 Area 5 Area 5 7 of 10

8 Inspection of Power Cable Repair Moyle Interconnector North Channel (New ) Repair of the North cable of the Moyle Interconnector was completed in early A further fault has developed in the area of the repair and inspection of the joints associated with the repair is planned. The North and South power cables lie in the North Channel between Islandmagee, Northern Ireland and Currarie Port, south of Ballantrae, Ayrshire, Scotland. Inspection activities on the North Cable will take place between the following co-ordinates in the North Channel of the Irish Sea North Cable Fault Window N W to N W The inspection will commence in late August and could last for approximately 2 weeks. This programme is subject to both technical and weather delays. Work will involve divers and excavating equipment working from vessels employing an anchor spread. Fishing vessels are advised that sections of the Moyle Interconnector power cables may be unburied at times during and after this work. Skippers are requested to keep beyond a distance of at least 1 nautical mile from the advised cable section. Vessels are also requested to keep beyond 1 nautical mile from the cable repair vessel Atlantis as operations limit the manoeuvrability of the repair vessel and include the use of ROVs. For further information, please contact: Maurice Smith, Moyle Interconnector, Tel: +44(0) Maurice.smith@esbi.ie Displaced Mattressing Isle of Man UK Interconnector Power Cable (New ) The IOM-UK Interconnector cable runs between Douglas, Isle of Man and Bispham in Blackpool and includes small sections where the interconnector cable is protected by mattresses, three of these sections are as follows: Mattressing co-ordinates: Route Position: 14.3km Route Position: 57.3km Route Position: 71.2km ' N ' W to ' N ' W ' N ' W to ' N ' W ' N ' W to ' N ' W Following a recent survey of the above locations it has been identified that a section of mattressing protecting the IOM-UK Interconnector cable, route position 57.3km from the Isle of Man, has been displaced. All fishing vessels are advised to keep clear of the area below: Route Position: 57.3km: ' N ' W to ' N ' W Your further co-operation will be greatly appreciated if vessels undertaking ground fishing activities could exercise precaution when operating in the vicinity of the mattressed areas identified above. For further information, please contact: Stephen McGhee, Manx Electricity Authority, Tel: , steve.mcghee@mea.gov.im Area 5 Area 5 Area 5 Area 5 Area 5 8 of 10

9 Shallow Burial of Submarine Cable Section Hibernia D (New Entry ) Following a recent repair to the Hibernia D cable, there was difficulty in reburying the cable to the required depth of 1 metre. Please note the section below which could only be buried to a depth of 30cm, this section also contains the repaired splice. Please exercise caution in this area. Shallow Buried Section 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W 'N 'W For further information, please contact: Tom Manning, Tel: +44 (0) , tom.manning@globalmarinesystems.com Exposed Submarine Cable Section Hibernia D Please note that the Hibernia D cable has been surveyed and has an exposed section. This is indicated in the map below. The exposed section runs from: ' N ' W to ' N ' W For full details of the exposed cable route, please refer to Kingfisher Fortnightly Bulletin Issue 24 / For further information, please contact: Tom Manning, Tel: +44 (0) , tom.manning@globalmarinesystems.com Repair to Lanis Cable UK IOM (Off Port Grenaugh) The LANIS 1 cable was damaged approximately 600m off Port Grenaugh beach in November The fault was repaired by laying a new shore end section and unfortunately it was not possible to bury the cable at the bight area or the cable shoreward. All fishing vessels are advised to keep clear of the area below and route below: N W N W N W N W N W N W N W N W N W N W N W For further information, please contact: Jon Ford, Cable & Wireless UK, Waterside House, Longshot Lane, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 1XL, Tel: +44 (0) , Mob: +44 (0) , Jon.Ford@cw.com Repair to SOLAS Cable UK to Ireland The SOLAS cable has been repaired due to a fault at the following position: N W. Burial was attempted, though the cable remains at risk of snagging with fishing gear as only shallow burial was achieved. For further information, please contact: Jon Ford, Cable & Wireless UK, Waterside House, Longshot Lane, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 1XL, Tel: +44 (0) , Mob: +44 (0) , Jon.Ford@cw.com Area 5 Area 5 Area 5 Area 5 Area 5 9 of 10

10 Cable Repairs TAT 14 (Segment K) (Update ) The French cableship Rene Descartes is scheduled to carry out two repairs to the TAT 14 segment K cable, as follows: Repair 1 - North West of the Butt of Lewis in approximate position ' N ' W commencing 18th September. Repair 2 - Fair Isle Channel in approximate position ' N ' W commencing 23rd September. Dates and duration subject to weather and operational constraints. For a copy of the Kingfisher Awareness Flyers for the Sprint 2012 (TAT 14 Segment K) cable, please contact the undersigned. Alternatively, click on the link below, or visit Kingfisher Flyer: Sprint ENGLISH - Full Kingfisher Flyer: Sprint FRENCH - Full Kingfisher Flyer: Sprint FAROESE - Full Kingfisher Flyer: Sprint ENGLISH - Unburied Kingfisher Flyer: Sprint FRENCH - Unburied Kingfisher Flyer: Sprint FAROESE - Unburied For further information, please contact: Barry Peck, Sealine Marine Services, bepeck@sealine.org.uk Area 6 Area 6 Area 6 Area 6 Area 6 10 of 10