Anchor Trials

site user(s) Marine Energy Engineering Centre of Excellence & Tidal Anchors​ technology tested: Four types of embedment anchor: Danforth, Tidal Anchor, CQR and Delta type, as well as load cells.​ sites used: Dale Roads – provides suitable sandy seabed for...

Settlement Lines

site user(s): Marine Energy Engineering Centre of Excellence & Pembrokeshire Beach Food Company​ technology tested: 4 different mooring line rope types in total were tested, both natural & man-made, with 3 replicates of each to ensure confidence in the...

MEECE Buoy

site user(s): Marine Energy Engineering Centre of Excellence, Intelligent Moorings, Grafmarine & Hexigone technology tested: The MEECE Buoy was used to test the following systems: Intelligent Mooring System (IMS), a mooring damper solution developed for the FLOW...

SELKIE Project

Site user(s): Swansea University, Prof. Ian Masters, & SELKIE Project technology tested: This deployment tested a Convergence Beam Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (C-ADCP) – a device designed to capture more accurate measurements than a diverging ADCP. The...