[AusNOG] PPC1 broken

[Paul Brooks]

Nothing on Basslink wet section that needed a repair ship in the past.

There are more cable ships in APAC region than the Alcatel ship, perhaps they'll look wider.


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From: Matt Whitlock <mbw.whitlock at gmail.com>
Sent: 7 February 2016 10:48:56 pm AEDT
To: Paul Jones <paul at pauljones.id.au>, Bevan Slattery <bevan at slattery.net.au>
Cc: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] PPC1 broken

Not that I am aware of and most definitely not from 2009-2013.
On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 at 21:45 Paul Jones <paul at pauljones.id.au> wrote:

> Have either PPC1 or Basslink had major faults like this before? I can’t
> remember hearing about any.
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> Paul.
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> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Bevan
> Slattery
> *Sent:* Sunday, 7 February 2016 10:37 PM
> *To:* Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net>
> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
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> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] PPC1 broken
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> Oh wow.  I'm in SFO atm.  Extraordinary bad luck.  Il de Ray is getting
> frames welded onto it for the repair of Basslink.  Once it gets going that
> is going to take a while.  That is the month.  So the only other option is
> to grab a vessel of opportunity which is out of Taiwan.  And then it will
> have to get the spares off the Il de Ray meaning it will probably have to
> steam to Geelong to get the spares.  Unbelievable bad luck.
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> Without any knowledge from what the outage (pump or shunt) and what is the
> remedy it is hard to understand.  But the chances of 2 faults concurrently
> is so low it's not funny.  The Il de Ray has never done a repair in anger
> and two concurrently is just unheard off.  And for one to be an electrical
> repair is equally amazing (long time to repair).
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> Just really, really bad luck.
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> On 7 Feb 2016, at 1:10 AM, Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net> wrote:
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> Yep,
> http://www.basslink.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Basslink-Interconnector-update-27-January-FINAL1.pdf
> says she's in Geelong being modified to pull the basslink cable up.
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> On 7 February 2016 at 19:57, Matt Richards <matt at shakesbeare.com> wrote:
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> Marinetraffic.com <http://marinetraffic.com> has her moored at Geelong.
> www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:171704
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> Matt.
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