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KIS-ORCA: protecting
“The KIS-ORCA project is the gold
standard of its type and so much more
than just a website. By being part of KIS-
ORCA you are demonstrating that you are
Your structure Your activity Your data and Your industry aspects
positions visible and hazard updates exported taught in fishermen’s
on vessel charting news broadcast quarterly to UK training courses
systems to fishermen authorities
A community of all the major offshore assets owners/operators – over 100 leading companies
Making the seas safer for information to the fishing “Supplying fishermen with
industry, it was a natural delivery accurate locations of offshore
fishermen
partner. structures allows skippers
Fishing is the most dangerous
Kingfisher’s ensuing awareness to make informed decisions
peacetime occupation in the UK,
with 76 fishermen losing their
projects include KIS-ORCA. This when fishing in the vicinity of
was launched in 2012, extending these potentially hazardous
lives over the past decade, and
a successful decade-long project structures to ensure that they
155 UK vessels lost. A major
that charted subsea cables only. are operating as safely as
risk to fishermen is subsea
structures. Through associations such possible.”
as the European Subsea
The importance of raising Dave Fenner, Maritime and
Cables Association (ESCA),
awareness of these structures Coastguard Agency (MCA)
RenewableUK and Oil & Gas UK,
was highlighted in a Marine
some 100 global organisations
Accident Investigation Branch
now support KIS-ORCA and
(MAIB) fatal accident inquiry
FishSAFE.
into an incident in which four
The effectiveness of fishermen died. Their vessel, the As a result, fishermen and other
Launched to protect the safety of fishermen and Westhaven, had become stuck sea users benefit from:
KIS-ORCA relies on
mariners, KIS-ORCA has also brought important on an oil pipeline span.
• raised awareness of offshore
all operators/owners
corporate responsibility and financial benefits The MAIB called upon the hazards
supplying good data –
for the telecoms, power, renewable and oil & offshore industries to improve
• easier access to information
up-to-date, accurate, fishermen’s awareness of these
gas sectors. about hazards
and comprehensive, hazards, and to provide practical
It helps operators and owners: information about them. Since • reduced risk of lives or
and including ALL vessels lost through snagging
the Kingfisher division of Seafish
• protect your assets against damage and major financial manmade structures incidents.
was already providing mapping
losses deployed on the
• meet obligations around health & safety and corporate seabed, buried or
responsibility otherwise.
• reduce risks to sea users
• demonstrate you’ve taken all practical steps to promote
your cable and structure locations
• safeguard your reputation
Submit your information at: kingfisherdata@seafish.co.uk
How to supply your data
to KIS-ORCA
The information on KIS-ORCA How to submit data
covers ALL manmade cables What data to supply Information required for each
Data should be:
and structures deployed on object
surface or the seabed. This • Cable routes – the most recent ‘as laid’ positions • submitted in Excel format
includes structures that are • Name/number of the structure
covered, buried or trenched in • Cable repairs/alterations – final splices • provided in WGS84, using degrees and decimal
• Name of structure’s owner minutes (DDD° MM.MMM’)
the seabed. • Wind turbines
• Name of structure’s operator • sent to kingfisherdata@seafish.co.uk
We require operators/owners
to supply data in a set format – • Wind farm boundaries • Type of structure (eg substation, wind When to send data
this keeps down the conversion • Wave and tidal structures turbine, telecoms cable)
costs (and therefore the running To ensure that information provided to fishermen is as
• Emergency 24/7 contact phone current as possible, the production schedule for each
costs) of the project, and helps • Met masts/substations/buoys number
ensure that data is current and update of KIS-ORCA is kept tight.
comprehensive. • Mattresses or other protection structures • Positions - Latitude and Longitude in The timetable is shown in the table below.
• Dropped objects (eg debris, anchors) WGS84 (degrees, minutes, decimals)
• Status (eg proposed, active, out of Can we help?
• Statutory Safety Zones service) Providing the right data, at the right time, and in the
• Any other subsea features relating to your right format helps make KIS-ORCA as effective and
• Any additional information that you
cost-effective as possible. If you have questions about
developments would like to include about the object/
what data to submit it, or how to submit it, please
structure contact us on +44 (0)1472 252307, and we can put
you on the right track.
Data call to all assets owners/operators Heads up calls and emails DATA SUBMISSION ‘MONTH’
An industry-wide project
Between 101 & 150
For more information about charges, please contact = £20 / turbine
secretary@escaeu.org
Over 150 = £15 / turbine
CABLE OPERATORS
“Having access to a layer of information containing
(cost per cable length)
accurate locations of offshore structures and Some 100 organisations and Management Support from industry
hazards means skippers can see exactly where 0.80p per km of cable companies support KIS-ORCA
and sister project FishSAFE, and KIS-ORCA is managed by Essential to KIS-ORCA is the
their vessel is in relation to an offshore structure,
the inputs and benefits are truly Kingfisher (part of Seafish, a UK continuing support of operators
cable or hazard. This is vital to safe fishing and Non-Departmental Public Body) and asset operators.
in reducing the likelihood of a vessel impacting a collective.
in cooperation with the European
structure.” KIS-ORCA aims to include every
This ensures: Subsea Cables Association
operational telecoms cable,
• comprehensive and (ESCA) and RenewableUK.
Colin Warwick, National Fisheries Liaison Officer, power interconnection, and wind
The Crown Estate complete data farm & export cable in Northern
Distribution and Europe. The industry supports it
• wide audience reach – promotion by:
helping more and more
fishermen and sea users Updates are distributed • providing data that is relevant,
annually throughout the fishing accurate, timely and in the right
hear about KIS-ORCA and
industry by the Scottish formats
use it to avoid offshore Fishermen’s Federations (SFF)
structures and cables and the National Federation • funding
• cost efficiencies – the of Fishermen’s Organisations • promoting the project to other
service is delivered at a (NFFO), and also by Kingfisher. operators.
much cheaper cost than This ensures that the information
individual operators could on KIS-ORCA is made available
achieve alone. to the widest possible audience
of fishermen, mariners and
subsea users.