Oceanaddicts and Embarr are back at Whitegate this morning where divers form CEI Collins Engineers continue their inspection of the Jetty. Whitegate refinery Cork is Ireland’s only refinery. It is able to supply around 40% of the Republic of Ireland’s fuel needs.
The Plant produces 75,000 barrels of oil per day. The company also has an 8.5 million barrel, deep water crude oil and oil products storage complex located in Bantry Bay. Whitegate has been upgraded to produce low sulfur gasoline and diesel fuels and is able to provide improved efficiencies in feeding the US refining and supply system.
Another Week’s diving starts at Whitegate
work continues at the Refinery
This is the third week of diving activities on the refinery at Whitegate. Divers from CEI Collins Engineers take it in turn to dive. The divers are using surface demand when carring out their inspection of the piles. their job has been a bit more difficule this week as underwater visibility was reduced after the strong winds of last weekend. The safety of the divers is the main consideration and each morning a call is made to Cork Harbour Radio informing them when divers go in the water and again in the evening when the diving is finished for the day. All traffic into and out of Cork Harbour has to pass by the refinery and Cork Harbour radio informs each ship of the diving activity and advices them to adjust their speed. Diver makes a Splash
Embarr’s first booking for 2011
On the 25th of January Oceanaddicts started their first booking of 2011 with our Liveaboard Embarr. She, along with our rib Oisre, are providing accommodation and dive support to a team of commercial divers from CEI Collins Engineers Ltd, who are surveying the Jetty at the Whitegate Refinery in Cork Harbour.
For the period of the contract Embarr is moored at East Ferry Marina, near Cobh. It’s an early start each morning with Graham starting the engine at 6.30am, by 7.00am we are sipping lines and heading across the harbour to arrive at the refinery at 7.30am Once Embarr is tied up, and her engines stopped, the divers set to work immediately.
The first couple of days diving the weather was bitterly cold with ice on the deck each morning. The kettle was on the go all day providing hot drinks to ward off the chill. But today 1st February Spring has arrived and we have bright sunshine and a flat sea.
Embarr in Kinsale
Congratulations guys on your great achievement with Embarr. Wishing you many years of success and happiness. There’s no stopping you now! Cathy
2 Places remaining on our Underwater Photography Workshop
There are two places remaining on our Underwater Photography Workshop being held the 18th & 19th of September if interested contact Anne anne@oceanaddicts.ie
Oceanaddicts Underwater Photography Workshop with John Collins
Oceanaddicts Underwater Photography Workshop Special.
Oceanaddicts Underwater Photography Workshop with renowned underwater photographer and videographer John Collins. The workshop will take place on board our newly refurbished Liveaboard Embarr the weekend of the 18th and 19th September. It will include B&B, lunch and four dives. Diving will take place from our 8.8M Rib Oisre. John will be available throughout the weekend to offer help and advice on how to improve your photography. Spaces are limited to 8 divers in order that people receive the full benefit of John’s knowledge. The workshop will cost €250.
To book please Contact Anne 087-7903211 or by email anne@oceanaddicts.ie
John Collins Photographer
John Collins is an award-winning photographer, based in Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland. Originally from Limerick, he discovered photography as a teenager and with it a life-long passion to capture images of the world around us. While studying Pharmacy in Trinity College Dublin, he learned to scuba-dive with Dublin University Sub-Aqua Club and went on to gain experience both in Ireland and abroad, eventually becoming a diving instructor in 1991.
John is a graduate of the New York Institute of Photography course in professional photography. On land, John continues to work on landscape and documentary photographs, producing unique images of the beautiful areas around Kinsale and west Cork.
John specializes in Underwater Photography, particularly in his home waters and other temperate seas that are less visited and appreciated than the coral seas of the tropics. A collection of these images have been published in the book, Cool Waters Emerald Seas, published by Atrium in 2006. Many of John’s photographs have been successful in competition and are widely published internationally. As Divers we can really appreciate John’s ability to capture glimpses of our unique underwater landscape, the life that inhabits it and the ships that have been wrecked in it.
Nationwide 7th July 2010
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Footage of Dive on the Santo Wreck Cork Harbour
Check out the footage of the Wreck of the Santo, Cork Harbour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS-RL6UNzJ0 recorded by John Collins yesterday while diving with Oceanaddicts