Maritime Heritage Weekend

13/10/2026

The final wooden fishing boat to work from Hastings beach is to be saved after thousands of pounds were raised towards its restoration.

More here: https://bbc.in/4AY7kSp

08/10/2026

Denmark just built the world's most efficient offshore wind foundation — a new suction bucket jacket structure for the Bornholm Energy Island wind turbines that is installed in 4 hours without any concrete, any piling hammers, or any seabed disturbance, by sucking water out of a steel bucket embedded in the seabed through the same vacuum principle as a household suction cup.

The Ørsted Bornholm Suction Bucket Foundation, manufactured by DEME Offshore and deployed at the Bornholm Energy Island site in the Baltic Sea, lowers a 25-metre diameter steel bucket structure to the seabed and pumps water from its interior, creating a pressure differential that drives the bucket into the seabed material as the surrounding water pressure pushes inward — achieving the bearing capacity of a conventional 80-metre driven pile in 4 hours without the 72-hour concrete cure time, the seabed vibration of 8,000 pile hammer blows, and the 50-metre crane barge requirements of conventional foundation installation.

The environmental benefit of the suction bucket foundation for marine ecology is significant and documented. Conventional pile driving produces underwater acoustic levels of 180 to 220 decibels during installation — levels that affect marine mammals, fish, and invertebrates across a 20-kilometre radius for the 3 to 5 days required to install a single conventional foundation. Suction bucket installation at 80 decibels over 4 hours eliminates 99.9% of the acoustic impact per turbine installation.

Denmark installed an offshore turbine foundation in 4 hours by sucking the seabed. The fish were undisturbed. The timeline was transformed.

Source: Ørsted A/S & DEME Offshore, 2024

04/10/2026

30/09/2026

13/08/2026

Achill Island RNLI in 16 hour call out to bring 25 people onboard 24m sailing vessel to safety from a salmon cage

Full report on www.marinetimes.ie

RNLI Achill Island RNLI

29/07/2026

Uncertainty surrounds identity of the ship which can be seen from Quay Street Car Park

27/06/2026

An Irish woman who was released from quarantine on Monday following her trip on a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak has spoken of her surprise at how she never contracted the virus.

26/06/2026