CONTAINMENT SPECIAL
The final and equally important link in the chain is the in- staller. The equipment must be installed correctly, and then surveyed after installation, either by diver or ROV, to ensure anchors are bedded in and are upright, and that rope is not in a chaff risk area over rocks or hard ground.
Correct mooring maintenance and checking is also required to keep the correctly specified and installed equipment at its very best.
Background information
Gael Force Marine has its roots in the Hebrides where founder and Chairman, Stewart Graham began his one man operation making fishing creels in 1983. The company relocated to Inver- ness in 1990, where Stewart expanded the business to source and supply all the ancillary equipment required for creel fishing and, subsequently, for commercial fishing too. The business grew rapidly and, as a logical progression, was soon also sup- plying many fish farmers with protective clothing, rope, chain and other items used in the emerging aquaculture sector. The com- pany became more heavily involved in fish farming equipment supply with the acquisition of Seaboard Anchors in 1998 – an acquisition which took the company into high level contact with all the key operators through the design and supply of complex high load, multi-point mooring systems for fish cages. Since the acquisition of Seaboard Anchors and the further expansion of the moorings division, Gael Force has moored farm sites all over the world – from Martinique in the Caribbean to Italy in the Mediterranean – and currently enjoys the status of being the preferred supplier to many of the major fish farming companies operating on mainland Scotland and Orkney, Shet- land and the Western Isles. Gael Force also moored one of the most distant offshore sites when the University of New Hamp- shire decided to set up a test farm 10km off the coast of the United States. The university approached Gael Force to design and supply the moorings, recognising them as leading experts in their field.
Gael Force maintains a running programme of mooring prod- uct development and constantly seeks to improve the design, quality and performance of mooring systems. The company has also worked very closely with Portugal’s oldest and most re- spected rope manufacturers, Olivera SA, to develop and manu- facture specialist mooring ropes for the fish farming industry. This focus on product development is an ongoing process, with the company now looking at new and innovative plastic cables for mooring grids which do not have the stretch of traditional ropes and could be of great benefit when accuracy of mooring rope and grid square lengths is critical.
GAEL FORCE PROPOSED MOORING GRID FOR EUGHLAM LIGHTHOUSE CALEDONIA
GAEL FORCE HAS MOORED FARM SITES ALL OVER THE WORLD
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OPPOSITE PAGE, FROM TOP: THE SEAMASTER SET-UP; GRID QUADRANT RING; CORRECTLY SET MOORING LEG.
THIS PAGE, FROM TOP: PROPOSED GRID FOR LIGHTHOUSE CALEDONIA; MOVING A MOORING ANCHOR
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