I was invovled as Client representative for SSE on the Seagreen wind farm. The phase of the project I was actively engaged in was the pre-construction installation of a meterorological mast. I was involved in the mobilisation at the famous Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast and then joined the Brave Tern jackup vessel by helicopter from Aberdeen. The operation involved a rather interesting foundation technology. The concept is to use a so called suction bucket to drive the mast into the seabed. This technology is commonly used on smaller structures, for example to fix the end of a mooring chain to the sea floor. However the scale of this structure added new challenges. The suction bucket is designed to be lowered to the sea floor, and once the rim of the bucket is fully sealed against the seabed, powerful pumps are used to remove water from inside the bucket, reducing the pressure within the bucket and driving it into the seabed. After the project I remained onboard the vessel for transit back to Belfast via the north of Scotland and through the Pentland Firth.