Collisions

The project area is located in a moderately trafficked part of the North Sea and is also used for shipping and fishing. A few kilometres north of the intended location of the platform is the Terschelling-German Bight shipping route. No shipping or other use is allowed in a zone of 500 metres around the platforms. This causes local restrictions for fishery, shipping and recreation (sailing). Within this safety zone, dragging fishing nets over the seabed and in the water column is not allowed either. The choice of location for the platform takes shipping and other uses into account. The platform will be equipped with the required navigation lights and collision prevention systems.

In a 500-metre zone around a platform, shipping is prohibited. ONE-Dyas always conducts multiple safety studies for new and existing activities, including an investigation into the risks of collision by ships. MARIN’s study, appended to the EIA, shows that the probability of a platform collision (worst-case approach), has been calculated to occur once every 273 years. All platforms are equipped with an Automatic Identification of Shipping System. (AIS system). A kind of anti-collision system, which sounds an alarm well in advance of an approaching ship and thus a possible collision. The use of AIS reduces the chance of a collision, which for the worst case scenario is calculated at once every 273 years, by another 75%.