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THE PROBLEM WITH SURFACE ROUTESON TOP OF THE SEAFLOOR• There is no direct route <strong>from</strong> the EPU farm to the shore• The cable route must pass through a reef gap• Reef gaps do not line up between reef tracts• Reef gaps do not line up with with breaks in hard grounds• Cables laid on sand flats compromise future other uses ofthe sand resource, for beach renourishment for example• The solution? Go underground with directional drillingUNDER the coral reefs and hard grounds
DIRECTIONAL DRILLING UNDER FLORIDA REEF TRACTFrom land under the continentalshelf and out to sea on the slopeFrom sea under the continentalshelf and onto the landConventional wire-line method and conventionalequipment are used without modification.Fixing the direction of drilling can be done easilyby electronic ec c multishot survey devices.
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