Living Stone Completes Sea Trials, Prepares for Hornsea One

DEME Group’s cable laying and multipurpose vessel Living Stone has completed sea trials and will soon head to its first cable laying assignment at Hornsea Project One in the UK.

Ordered in 2015 from the Spanish shipbuilder La Naval, the Living Stone was initially scheduled to be delivered in the second quarter of 2017.

However, La Naval failed to meet several contractual obligations and construction milestones due to financial issues followed by bankruptcy proceedings. The vessel was eventually moved from the La Naval shipyard in Bilbao to Santurtzi.

In April 2018, the Living Stone arrived from Santurtzi to Vlissingen, the Netherlands, where it underwent final outfitting before completion, including the installation of a dual-lane cable installation system with a total capacity of 10,000 tonnes.

DEME’s subsidiary Tideway is in charge of the export cable installation at 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm under a Design and Build contract awarded by Ørsted in June 2016.

Tideway installed the first cable section at the project site in April, using Ocean Yield’s cable lay vessel Connector.

Offshore WIND Staff